2 U.S.C. § 4523 — Deductions for delinquent indebtedness
submitted 92 years ago by ch. 648 to r/title-2-THE-CONGRESS · 187 words · no verdicts yet
House and Senate officials must certify and deduct delinquent debts owed by specified congressional officers from money due to them.
If a Representative, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or Senator fails to pay money owed to the House or Senate, the committee or officer with jurisdiction over the activity that created the debt must certify the delinquent amount. For a House debt, the certification goes to the Chief Administrative Officer; for a Senate debt, it goes to the Secretary of the Senate. Those officials must deduct the certified amount, or as much as can be covered, from salary, mileage, or expense money owed to the person. The Secretary and Chief Administrative Officer must dispose of deducted sums under existing law.
Whenever a Representative, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or a United States Senator, shall fail to pay any sum or sums due from such person to the House of Representatives or Senate, respectively, the appropriate committee or officer of the House of Representatives or Senate, as the case may be, having jurisdiction of the activity under which such debt arose, shall certify such delinquent sum or sums to the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives in the case of an indebtedness to the House of Representatives and to the Secretary of the Senate in the case of an indebtedness to the Senate, and such latter officials are authorized and directed, respectively, to deduct from any salary, mileage, or expense money due to any such delinquent such certified amounts or so much thereof as the balance or balances due such delinquent may cover. Sums so deducted by the Secretary of the Senate shall be disposed of by him in accordance with existing law, and sums so deducted by the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives shall be disposed of by him in accordance with existing law.
Source credit: (June 19, 1934, ch. 648, title I, § 1, 48 Stat. 1024; Pub. L. 104–186, title II, § 203(8), Aug. 20, 1996, 110 Stat. 1726.)
- 1934Enacted · Act of June 19, 1934, ch. 648 · 48 Stat. 1024
- 1996Amended · Pub. L. 104-186 · 110 Stat. 1726
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 648 on 1934-06-19.
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