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§1437a Training and Education Programs of Employing Offices

Title 2 › CHAPTER 24 — CONGRESSIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY › SUBCHAPTER V — MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS › § 1437a

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Each employing office must create and run a training and education program for its covered employees about the rights and protections in this chapter, and about the subchapter IV procedures for raising or resolving claimed violations. Within 45 days after each new Congress begins (starting with the One Hundred Seventeenth Congress), each office must send a report on the program to the Committee on House Administration (House) and the Committee on Rules and Administration (Senate). The first report was due no later than 180 days after December 21, 2018. The rule does not apply to employing offices of the House or the Senate.

Full Legal Text

Title 2, §1437a

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(a)Requiring offices to develop and implement programs
Each employing office shall develop and implement a program to train and educate covered employees of the office in the rights and protections provided under this chapter, including the procedures available under subchapter IV to consider alleged violations of this chapter.
(b)Report to committees
(1)In general
Not later than 45 days after the beginning of each Congress (beginning with the One Hundred Seventeenth Congress), each employing office shall submit a report to the Committee on House Administration of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate on the implementation of the program required under subsection (a).
(2)Special rule for first report
Not later than 180 days after December 21, 2018, each employing office shall submit the report described in paragraph (1) to the Committees described in such paragraph.
(c)Exception for offices of Congress
This section does not apply to an employing office of the House of Representatives or an employing office of the Senate.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

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

Short Title

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

Prior Provisions

A prior section 509 of Pub. L. 104–1 was renumbered section 511 and is classified to section 1438 of this title.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

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

Effective Date

of 2018 Amendment note under section 1301 of this title.

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Citation

2 U.S.C. § 1437a

Title 2, The Congress

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110