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§6620 Provision of services and equipment on a reimbursable basis

Title 2 › Chapter CHAPTER 65— - SENATE OFFICERS AND ADMINISTRATION › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - SERGEANT AT ARMS AND DOORKEEPER OF SENATE › Part Part B— - General Powers and Duties › § 6620

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

With approval from the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper may provide services and equipment paid for by the Senate to people or groups that do not get Senate funding, but those users must pay the Senate back. If the services or items were bought from the Contingent Expenses, Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate account, the reimbursements must go back into that account or its subaccounts, be merged with its funds, and be available under the same rules. This started in fiscal year 2004 and continues every year after.

Full Legal Text

Title 2, §6620

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(a)Subject to the approval of the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate, the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate may provide services and equipment funded by appropriations available to the Senate to persons and entities not funded by such appropriations.
(b)The provision of services and equipment under subsection (a) shall be on a reimbursable basis.
(c)In the case of services or equipment provided under subsection (a) that were procured using amounts available to the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate in the account for Contingent Expenses, Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate, amounts received under subsection (b) as reimbursement for the provision of such services or equipment shall be credited to that account or, if applicable, to any subaccount of that account. Amounts credited to any such account or subaccount shall be merged with amounts in that account or subaccount and shall be available to the same extent, and subject to the same terms and conditions, as amounts in that account or subaccount.
(d)This section shall apply to fiscal year 2004 and each succeeding fiscal year.

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Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 61f–11 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section. Section is from the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2004.

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Citation

2 U.S.C. § 6620

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Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73