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Title 2, The CongressRelease 119-110

§1388 Workplace Climate Surveys of Employing Offices

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

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Office must run a secure survey of its employing offices about workplace climate not later than 1 year after December 21, 2018, and every 2 years after that. Answers must be voluntary. Each survey must ask about attitudes toward sexual harassment. The Office must make all answers anonymous and confidential, tell respondents that, and avoid using codes or form details that could identify a person or their office. The Office must use methods it creates for the survey and carry those out after consulting 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. The Office must give the survey results to those same committees.

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Title 2, §1388

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(a)Requirement to conduct secure surveys
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)Special inclusion of information on sexual harassment
In each survey conducted under this section, the Office shall survey respondents on attitudes regarding sexual harassment.
(c)Methodology
(1)In general
The Office shall conduct each survey under this section in accordance with methodologies established by the Office.
(2)Confidentiality
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)Survey form
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)Use of results of surveys
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)Consultation with committees
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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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

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

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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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2 U.S.C. § 1388

Title 2, The Congress

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110