2 U.S.C. § 6508: Transfers from appropriations…

Summary

The Secretary of the Senate may move money, during any fiscal year, between the contingent fund for the Secretary’s office and the Senate appropriations account that pays salaries and office costs if the Senate Appropriations Committee approves the transfer. Money moved can be used the same way as other money already in the account that receives it. The Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper may, with the same committee’s approval, move money during any fiscal year from their contingent fund into the Senate appropriations account for salaries and office costs. Money moved can be used the same way as other money in the receiving account.

Title 2, §6508

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(a)The Secretary of the Senate is authorized, with the approval of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, to transfer, during any fiscal year (1) from the appropriations account, within the contingent fund of the Senate, for expenses of the Office of the Secretary of the Senate, such sums as he shall specify to the Senate appropriations account, appropriated under the headings “Salaries, Officers and Employees” and “Office of the Secretary”, and (2) from the Senate appropriations account, appropriated under the headings “Salaries, Officers and Employees” and “Office of the Secretary” to the appropriations account, within the contingent fund of the Senate, for expenses of the Office of the Secretary of the Senate, such sums as he shall specify; and any funds so transferred shall be available in like manner and for the same purposes as are other funds in the account to which the funds are transferred.

(b)The Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate is authorized, with the approval of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, to transfer, during any fiscal year, from the appropriations account, within the contingent fund of the Senate, for expenses of the Office of the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate, such sums as he shall specify to the appropriations account, appropriated under the headings “Salaries, Officers and Employees” and “Office of the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper”; and any funds so transferred shall be available in like manner and for the same purposes as are other funds in the account to which the funds are transferred.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 68–6 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section. Section is from the Congressional Operations Appropriations Act, 1989, which is title I of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1989.

Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in the following prior appropriation act: Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(i) [title I, § 8], Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1329–290, 1329–295.

Amendments

1990—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 101–302 designated existing provisions as cl. (1) and added cl. (2).

§6508 Transfers From Appropriations Account for Expenses of Office of Secretary of Senate and Office of Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of Senate