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§6627 Compensation for lost or damaged property

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 › § 6627

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Any money the Sergeant at Arms gets as payment for damage to, loss of, or loss of use of property that was bought with funds from the Senate's Contingent Expenses account for the Sergeant at Arms must be put back into that same account or its subaccount. Money put back is added to the account balance and can be used the same way and under the same rules as the other money in that account. This rule starts with fiscal year 2005 and continues every year after.

Full Legal Text

Title 2, §6627

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(a)Any amounts received by the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate (in this section referred to as the “Sergeant at Arms”) for compensation for damage to, loss of, or loss of use of property of the Sergeant at Arms that was procured using amounts available to the Sergeant at Arms in the account for Contingent Expenses, Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate, shall be credited to that account or, if applicable, to any subaccount of that account.

(b)Amounts credited to any account or subaccount under subsection (a) 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.

(c)This section shall apply with respect to fiscal year 2005 and each fiscal year thereafter.

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Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 117d–1 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section. Section is from the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2005, which is div. G of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005.

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Citation

2 U.S.C. § 6627

Title 2 — The Congress

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73