2 U.S.C. § 4917: Page residence hall and page…

Summary

Starting with the Ninety-eighth Congress House created a revolving fund in the contingent fund for pages' residence hall and meal plan. The Chief Administrative Officer deposits money paid for pages' lodging, meals, and related services into it and spends it for those expenses as the Clerk directs; the Page Board makes rules.

Title 2, §4917

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(a)Revolving fund; establishment within House contingent fund

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)Deposits in revolving fund; disbursements by Chief Administrative Officer of House

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)Regulations

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