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§1835 Interagency details

Title 2 › Chapter CHAPTER 28— - ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - PERSONNEL › Part Part A— - General › § 1835

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Allows the Architect of the Capitol and other federal agency heads to make joint agreements to temporarily assign workers to each other. Staff from the Architect’s Office, including the U.S. Botanic Garden, can be sent to other agencies, and staff from other agencies can be sent to the Architect’s Office. These assignments can be done either with payment from the receiving agency or without payment. The length of an assignment is set in the agreement, but unpaid assignments cannot last more than one year unless both agency heads agree an extension is in the public interest. An unpaid assignment for a fiscal year must not be counted as an increase or change to the receiving office’s annual budget under any law or rule. These rules apply starting in fiscal year 2019 and for every fiscal year after.

Full Legal Text

Title 2, §1835

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(a)In addition to any other authority relating to the detail of employees, the Architect of the Capitol and the head of any other department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States Government may enter into a joint agency agreement under which—

(1)employees of the Office of the Architect of the Capitol (including employees of the United States Botanic Garden) may be detailed to such department, agency, or instrumentality on a reimbursable or non-reimbursable basis; and

(2)employees of such department, agency, or instrumentality may be detailed to the Office of the Architect of the Capitol on a reimbursable or non-reimbursable basis.

(b)The detail of an employee under a joint agency agreement under this section shall be for such duration as may be provided in the agreement, except that in the case of a detail made on a non-reimbursable basis, the duration of the detail may not exceed one year unless the Architect of the Capitol and the head of the department, agency, or instrumentality involved each determine that an extension of the detail of the employee is in the public interest.

(c)For purposes of any law, rule, or regulation, the detail of an employee on a non-reimbursable basis under a joint agency agreement under this section for a fiscal year shall not be treated as an increase or modification of the appropriation for the fiscal year of the office to whom the employee is detailed.

(d)This section shall apply with respect to fiscal year 2019 and each succeeding fiscal year.

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Citation

2 U.S.C. § 1835

Title 2 — The Congress

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73