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§6620 Provision of Services and Equipment on a Reimbursable Basis

Title 2 › CHAPTER 65 — SENATE OFFICERS AND ADMINISTRATION › SUBCHAPTER III — SERGEANT AT ARMS AND DOORKEEPER OF SENATE › Part B — General Powers and Duties › § 6620

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

With approval from the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper may use Senate-appropriated funds to give services and equipment to people or organizations that do not get Senate funding. Those services and equipment must be paid for by reimbursement. If the items were bought from the "Contingent Expenses, Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper" account, any reimbursements must go back into that account (or its subaccounts) and be merged and used under the same rules. This applies to fiscal year 2004 and each succeeding fiscal year.

Full Legal Text

Title 2, §6620

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(a)In general
Subject to the approval of the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate, the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate may provide services and equipment funded by appropriations available to the Senate to persons and entities not funded by such appropriations.
(b)Reimbursement required
The provision of services and equipment under subsection (a) shall be on a reimbursable basis.
(c)Crediting of reimbursed amounts
In the case of services or equipment provided under subsection (a) that were procured using amounts available to the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate in the account for Contingent Expenses, Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate, amounts received under subsection (b) as reimbursement for the provision of such services or equipment shall be credited to that account or, if applicable, to any subaccount of that account. Amounts credited to any such account or subaccount shall be merged with amounts in that account or subaccount and shall be available to the same extent, and subject to the same terms and conditions, as amounts in that account or subaccount.
(d)Effective date
This section shall apply to fiscal year 2004 and each succeeding fiscal year.

Legislative History

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Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 61f–11 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section. Section is from the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2004.

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Citation

2 U.S.C. § 6620

Title 2, The Congress

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110