2 U.S.C. § 5106 — Allowance for compensation of interns in

Page 591 TITLE 2—THE CONGRESS § 5123 (c) Applicability This section shall apply with respect to fiscal year 1999 and each succeeding fiscal year. (Pub. L. 106–31, title III, § 3009, May 21, 1999, 113 Stat. 93.) Editorial Notes CODIFICATION Section was formerly classified to section 74a–11 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renum- bering as this section. Section is from the 1999 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act. § 5106. Allowance for compensation of interns in House leadership offices (a) Establishment There is established for the House of Rep- resentatives an allowance which shall be avail- able for the compensation of interns who serve in House leadership offices. (b) Benefit exclusion Section 5321(b) of this title shall apply with re- spect to an intern who is compensated under the allowance under this section in the same man- ner as such section applies with respect to an in- tern who is compensated under the Members’ Representational Allowance. (c) Definitions In this section— (1) the term ‘‘House leadership office’’ means, with respect to a fiscal year, any office for which the appropriation for salaries and expenses of the office for the fiscal year is pro- vided under the heading ‘‘House Leadership Offices’’ in the Act making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year; and (2) term ‘‘intern’’, with respect to a House leadership office, has the meaning given such term with respect to a Member of the House of Representatives in section 5321(c)(2) of this title. (d) Appropriations There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section such sums as may be nec- essary for fiscal year 2020 and each succeeding fiscal year. (e) Omitted (f) Effective date This section and the amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to fiscal year 2020 and each succeeding fiscal year. (Pub. L. 116–94, div. E, title I, § 113, Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 2759.) Editorial Notes CODIFICATION Section is comprised of section 113 of Pub. L. 116–94. Subsec. (e) of section 113 of Pub. L. 116–94 amended sec- tion 5507 of this title. SUBCHAPTER II—THE SPEAKER § 5121. Expense allowance of Speaker of House of Representatives There shall be paid to the Speaker of the House of Representatives in equal monthly in- stallments an expense allowance of $10,000 per annum to assist in defraying expenses relating to or resulting from the discharge of his official duties, for which no accounting, other than for income tax purposes, shall be made by him. (Jan. 19, 1949, ch. 2, § 1(e), 63 Stat. 4; Oct. 20, 1951, ch. 521, title VI, § 619(c), 65 Stat. 570; Pub. L. 104–186, title II, § 203(1), Aug. 20, 1996, 110 Stat. 1725.) Editorial Notes CODIFICATION Section was formerly classified to section 31b of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section. AMENDMENTS 1996—Pub. L. 104–186 struck out ‘‘(which shall be in lieu of the allowance provided by section 601(b) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, as amended)’’ after ‘‘per annum’’. 1951—Act Oct. 20, 1951, made Speaker’s expense allow- ance taxable. Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1951 AMENDMENT Amendment by act Oct. 20, 1951, effective at noon, Jan. 3, 1953, see section 619(e) of act Oct. 20, 1951, set out as a note under section 102 of Title 3, The President. EFFECTIVE DATE Section effective at noon, Jan. 20, 1949, see section 3 of act Jan. 19, 1949. § 5122. Personal services in office of Speaker; payments There shall be paid from the applicable ac- counts of the House of Representatives until otherwise provided by law, for personal services in the office of the Speaker of the House, an ad- ditional basic sum of $10,000 per annum. (Pub. L. 87–730, § 103, Oct. 2, 1962, 76 Stat. 693; Pub. L. 104–186, title II, § 204(14), Aug. 20, 1996, 110 Stat. 1732.) Editorial Notes CODIFICATION Section was formerly classified to section 74–1 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section. Section is based on House Resolution No. 487, Eighty- seventh Congress, Jan. 10, 1962, which was enacted into permanent law by Pub. L. 87–730. AMENDMENTS 1996—Pub. L. 104–186 substituted ‘‘applicable accounts of the House of Representatives’’ for ‘‘contingent fund of the House’’. § 5123. Speaker’s Office for Legislative Floor Ac- tivities There is established in the House of Rep- resentatives an office to be known as the Speak- er’s Office for Legislative Floor Activities. The Speaker shall appoint and set the annual rate of pay for employees of the Office. The Office shall have the responsibility of assisting the Speaker in the management of legislative floor activity. (Pub. L. 104–53, title I, § 103, Nov. 19, 1995, 109 Stat. 520.)