§5549 House Intern Resource Office

Summary

Creates a House Intern Resource Office inside the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer to help interns who work in House offices. The office will be led by a House Intern Resource Coordinator, who the Chief Administrative Officer hires after talking with the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on House Administration. Working with the Office of Diversity and Inclusion and other offices as needed, the office must provide support services like accommodations, training, and professional development; act as a central source of resources and best practices for recruiting, hiring, training, and using interns; and collect demographic and other data on interns. It must look at unfair access to internships and study whether to set up a stipend program for interns from underrepresented backgrounds, including students at HBCUs, Tribal Colleges and Universities, HSIs, and other Minority Serving Institutions described in section 1067q(a) of title 20. Money as needed may be appropriated for fiscal year 2023 and each succeeding fiscal year to run this office, and the rules apply starting in fiscal year 2023 and each succeeding fiscal year.