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2 U.S.C. § 4592 — Payment of sums due deceased Senators and Senate personnel
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Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Senate, a person serving as a Senator or officer or employee whose compensation is disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate may designate a beneficiary or beneficiaries to be paid any unpaid balance of salary or other sums due such person at the time of his death. When any person dies while so serving, any such unpaid balance shall be paid by the disbursing officer of the Senate to the designated beneficiary or beneficiaries. If no designation has been made, such unpaid balance shall be paid to the widow or widower of that person, or if there is no widow or widower, to the next of kin or heirs at law of that person.
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Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Senate, a person serving as a Senator or officer or employee whose compensation is disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate may designate a beneficiary or beneficiaries to be paid any unpaid balance of salary or other sums due such person at the time of his death. When any person dies while so serving, any such unpaid balance shall be paid by the disbursing officer of the Senate to the designated beneficiary or beneficiaries. If no designation has been made, such unpaid balance shall be paid to the widow or widower of that person, or if there is no widow or widower, to the next of kin or heirs at law of that person.
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When any individual who has been elected a Member of, or Resident Commissioner to, the House of Representatives dies after the commencement of the Congress to which he has been elected, any unpaid balance of salary and other sums due such individual shall be paid to the person or persons surviving at the date of death, in the following order of precedence, and such payment shall be a bar to the recovery by any other person of amounts so paid:
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### Statutory Notes
#### Codification
Section 36a was editorially reclassified as [section 4592 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section4592&num=0&edition=prelim).
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### Statutory Notes
Section, R.S. §§ 49, 50; acts Jan. 20, 1874, ch. 11, 18 Stat. 4; Mar. 4, 1925, ch. 549, § 4, 43 Stat. 1301, related to pay of Member dying after commencement of Congress. See [section 5305 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section5305&num=0&edition=prelim).
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For the purpose of this subchapter—
(1) “employee” means—
(A) an employee as defined by [section 2105 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section2105&num=0&edition=prelim); and
(B) an individual employed by the government of the District of Columbia;
but does not include an employee of—
(i) a Federal land bank;
(ii) a Federal intermediate credit bank;
(iii) a regional bank for cooperatives; or
(iv) the Senate within the purview of [section 36a of title 2](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section36a&num=0&edition=prelim); 11 See References in Text note below. and
(2) “money due” means the pay and allowances due on account of the services of a deceased employee for the Government of the United States or the government of the District of Columbia. It includes, but is not limited to—
(A) per diem instead of subsistence, mileage, and amounts due in reimbursement of travel expenses, including incidental and miscellaneous expenses in connection therewith for which reimbursement is due;
(B) allowances on change of official station;
(C) quarters and cost-of-living allowances and overtime or premium pay;
(D) amounts due for payment of cash awards for employees’ suggestions;
(E) amounts due as refund of pay deductions for United States savings bonds;
(F) payment for accumulated and current accrued annual or vacation leave equal to the pay the deceased employee would have received had he lived and remained in the service until the end of the period of annual or vacation leave;
(G) amounts of checks drawn for pay and allowances which were not delivered by the Government to the employee during his lifetime;
(H) amounts of unnegotiated checks returned to the
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TITLE 2—THE CONGRESS
§ 4593
1See References in Text note below.
96 Stat. 849; Pub. L. 99–514, § 2, Oct. 22, 1986, 100
Stat. 2095.)
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
Section was formerly classified to section 60c–1 of
this title prior to editorial reclassification and renum-
bering as this section.
AMENDMENTS
1986—Pub. L. 99–514 substituted ‘‘Internal Revenue
Code of 1986’’ for ‘‘Internal Revenue Code of 1954’’,
which for purposes of codification was translated as
‘‘title 26’’ thus requiring no change in text.
1982—Pub. L. 97–257 inserted reference to the Vice
President.
1981—Pub. L. 97–51 substituted ‘‘Senators and officers
and employees’’ for ‘‘officers (other than Senators) and
employees’’, struck out cl. (1) which provided that all
compensation for the month of December be payable on
the twentieth of December, inserted ‘‘purposes of title
26 and for’’ after ‘‘For’’ in second sentence, and struck
out provisions that, in cases in which officers or em-
ployees of the Senate died during the month of Decem-
ber and the full compensation of that officer or em-
ployee for that month had been disbursed by the Sec-
retary of the Senate before the Secretary received no-
tice of the death, no recovery could be made of any por-
tion of the compensation so disbursed.
1979—Pub. L. 96–38 provided that, in cases in which of-
ficers or employees of the Senate die during the month
of December and the full compensation of that officer
or employee for that month has been disbursed by the
Secretary of the Senate before the Secretary receives
notice of the death, no recovery shall be made of any
portion of the compensation so disbursed.
1971—Cl. (2). Pub. L. 92–136 inserted ‘‘(including any
holiday on which the banks of the District of Columbia
are closed p
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