I 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2370 
To provide an allowance to offices of Members of the House of Representa-
tives which shall be available for the compensation of interns, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 25, 2019 
Mr. SMITH of Washington (for himself, Ms. NORTON, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, 
Mr. BEYER, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Ms. DEGETTE, Ms. SPEIER, Mr. MCGOV-
ERN, Mr. TED LIEU of California, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. MEEKS, Ms. 
OCASIO-CORTEZ, Ms. WILSON of Florida, Mr. CASE, Mr. GARCI´A of Illi-
nois, Mr. RASKIN, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Ms. 
SCHAKOWSKY, Mrs. LAWRENCE, Mr. BROWN
of Maryland, Mr. 
CISNEROS, Ms. SEWELL of Alabama, Mr. TRONE, Mrs. KIRKPATRICK, 
Ms. MUCARSEL-POWELL, Mr. POCAN, Mr. NADLER, Ms. JAYAPAL, Mr. 
GOMEZ, Ms. HOULAHAN, Ms. TLAIB, Ms. SCANLON, Mrs. HAYES, Mr. 
LEVIN of Michigan, Ms. PRESSLEY, Ms. SHALALA, Mr. MOULTON, Mr. 
KHANNA, Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York, and Ms. KAPTUR) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
House Administration 
A BILL 
To provide an allowance to offices of Members of the House 
of Representatives which shall be available for the com-
pensation of interns, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘House Intern Pay Act 
of 2019’’. 
SEC. 2. ALLOWANCE FOR COMPENSATION OF INTERNS IN 
HOUSE MEMBER OFFICES. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF ALLOWANCE.—There is es-
tablished for the House of Representatives an allowance 
which shall be available for the compensation of interns 
who serve in the offices of Members of the House of Rep-
resentatives during a calendar year. 
(b) AMOUNT PER OFFICE; ALLOCATION OF UNUSED 
ALLOWANCES AMONG OTHER OFFICES.— 
(1) AMOUNT.—The amount of the allowance 
under this section with respect to the office of a 
Member of the House of Representatives for a cal-
endar year shall be established by the Committee on 
House Administration of the House of Representa-
tives, and (subject to the allocation described in 
paragraph (2)) shall be an equivalent amount for all 
such offices. 
(2) ALLOCATION OF UNUSED ALLOWANCES.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—If, by not later than 
the applicable deadline described in subpara-
graph (B), an office of a Member of the House 
of Representatives does not certify to the Com-
mittee on House Administration that the office 
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will use the entire amount of the allowance es-
tablished for the office under this section with 
respect to a calendar year, the Committee may 
allocate the unused portion of such office’s al-
lowance among the allowances established for 
other offices of the House for such calendar 
year. 
(B) APPLICABLE DEADLINE.—The applica-
ble deadline described in this subparagraph 
with respect to a calendar year is such date es-
tablished by the Committee on House Adminis-
tration which is not earlier than January 31 of 
the year and not later than June 30 of the 
year. 
(c) MINIMUM COMPENSATION RATE.— 
(1) REQUIREMENT.—Each intern who is com-
pensated under the allowance under this section 
shall be paid for each pay period at a rate which is 
equal to or greater than the minimum compensation 
rate for the pay period. 
(2) DEFINITION.—In paragraph (1), the ‘‘min-
imum compensation rate’’ for a pay period is equal 
to— 
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