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Title 2 — The CongressRelease 119-73

§1388 Workplace climate surveys of employing offices

Title 2 › Chapter CHAPTER 24— - CONGRESSIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - OFFICE OF CONGRESSIONAL WORKPLACE RIGHTS › § 1388

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Office must run a secure survey of employing offices about their workplace climate no later than 1 year after December 21, 2018, and then every 2 years. Answering is voluntary, and each survey must ask about people’s attitudes on sexual harassment. The Office must design the survey methods. All answers must be anonymous and kept confidential, and respondents must be told that. The Office must avoid any data that could identify a person or their office. Survey results must be given to the Committee on House Administration of the House of Representatives and the Senate Committees on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Rules and Administration, and the Office must consult those committees when making methods and rules.

Full Legal Text

Title 2, §1388

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(a)Not later than 1 year after December 21, 2018, and every 2 years thereafter, the Office shall conduct a secure survey of employing offices under this chapter regarding the workplace environment of such offices. Employee responses to the survey shall be voluntary.
(b)In each survey conducted under this section, the Office shall survey respondents on attitudes regarding sexual harassment.
(c)(1)The Office shall conduct each survey under this section in accordance with methodologies established by the Office.
(2)Under the methodologies established under paragraph (1), all responses to all portions of the survey shall be anonymous and confidential, and each respondent shall be told throughout the survey that all responses shall be anonymous and confidential.
(3)The Office shall limit the use of any information code or information on the survey form that makes a respondent to the survey, or the respondent’s employing office, individually identifiable.
(d)The Office shall furnish the information obtained from the surveys conducted under this section to the Committee on House Administration of the House of Representatives and the Committees on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Rules and Administration of the Senate.
(e)The Office shall carry out this section, including establishment of methodologies and procedures under subsection (c), in consultation with the Committee on House Administration of the House of Representatives and the Committees on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Rules and Administration of the Senate.

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References in Text

This chapter, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 104–1, Jan. 23, 1995, 109 Stat. 3, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 1301 of this title and Tables.

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Effective Date

Section effective upon expiration of the 180-day period beginning on Dec. 21, 2018, with provisions for effect on pending proceedings, see section 401 of Pub. L. 115–397, set out as an

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of 2018 Amendment note under section 1301 of this title.

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Citation

2 U.S.C. § 1388

Title 2 — The Congress

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73