§4917 — Title 2 The Congress | U.S. Code

Summary

Starting with the Ninety‑eighth Congress, the House set up a revolving fund inside its contingent fund to pay for the pages' residence hall and meal plan until another law changes that. Money the Chief Administrative Officer collects for pages' lodging, meals, and related services must go into that fund and be used for those expenses under rules the House Page Board makes and as the Clerk of the House directs.

Title 2, §4917

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(a)Effective at the beginning of the Ninety-eighth Congress and until otherwise provided by law, there is established a revolving fund within the contingent fund of the House of Representatives for the page residence hall and the page meal plan.

(b)There shall be deposited in the revolving fund such amounts as may be received by the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives with respect to lodging, meals, and related services furnished for congressional pages. Amounts so deposited shall be available for disbursement by the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives, as determined by the Clerk of the House of Representatives, for expenses relating to the page residence hall and the page meal plan.

(c)The House of Representatives Page Board shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to carry out this section.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Ninety-eighth Congress, referred to in subsec. (a), convened on Jan. 3, 1983. Codification Section was formerly classified to section 88b–5 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section. Section is based on House Resolution No. 64, Ninety-eighth Congress, Feb. 8, 1983, which was enacted into permanent law by Pub. L. 98–51. Sections 1 to 4 of House Resolution No. 64 have been redesignated subsecs. (a) to (d) of this section, respectively, for purposes of codification.

Amendments

1996—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 104–186, § 204(38)(A), (B), substituted “Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives” for “Clerk” in first sentence and “Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives, as determined by the Clerk of the House of Representatives,” for “Clerk” in second sentence. Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 104–186, § 204(38)(C), (D), redesignated subsec. (d) as (c) and struck out former subsec. (c) which read as follows: “As used in this section, the term ‘Clerk’ means the Clerk of the House of Representatives.”

§4917 Page Residence Hall and Page Meal Plan