2 U.S.C. § 5536: Office equipment for House…

Summary

The Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives must provide office equipment to any Member, officer, committee, or the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico when they ask and when the Committee on House Oversight approves. The Committee decides what kinds of equipment can be provided and creates the rules for the program. Each item must be registered with the Chief Administrative Officer, stays the property of the House, and the House pays for it from its accounts.

Title 2, §5536

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(a)Authority of Chief Administrative Officer

At the request of any Member, officer, or committee of the House of Representatives, or the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, and with the approval of the Committee on House Oversight, but subject to the limitations prescribed by this Act, the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives shall furnish office equipment for use in the office of that Member, Resident Commissioner, officer, or committee. Office equipment so furnished is limited to equipment of those types and categories which the Committee on House Oversight shall prescribe.

(b)Registration and ownership

Office equipment furnished under this section shall be registered in the office of the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives and shall remain the property of the House of Representatives.

(c)Payment

The cost of office equipment furnished under this section shall be paid from the applicable accounts of the House of Representatives.

(d)Rules and regulations

The Committee on House Oversight shall prescribe such regulations as it considers necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 91–139, Dec. 5, 1969, 83 Stat. 291. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. Codification Section was formerly classified to section 112e of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Amendments

1996—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 104–186, § 204(59)(A)(i), (B)(i), substituted “House Oversight” for “House Administration” in two places and “Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives shall furnish” for “Clerk of the House shall furnish electrical and mechanical”. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 104–186, § 204(59)(A)(ii), substituted “Chief Administrative Officer” for “Clerk”. Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 104–186, § 204(59)(B)(ii), substituted “applicable accounts” for “contingent fund”. Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 104–186, § 204(59)(B)(i), (iii), substituted “House Oversight” for “House Administration” and struck out at end “The

Regulations

shall limit, on such basis as the committee considers appropriate, the total value of office equipment, with allowance for equipment depreciation, which may be in use at any one time in the office of a Member or the Resident Commissioner.”

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Committee on House Oversight of House of Representatives changed to Committee on House Administration of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Jan. 6, 1999.

Effective Date

Pub. L. 91–139, § 3, Dec. 5, 1969, 83 Stat. 292, provided that: “This Act [enacting this section and provisions set out as a note under former sections 112a to 112d of this title, and repealing sections 112a to 112d of this title] shall become effective at the beginning of the first calendar month which commences on or after the date of enactment of this Act [Dec. 5, 1969].”

§5536 Office Equipment for House Members, Officers, and Committees