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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2519 
To provide a per diem allowance for Members of Congress for the costs 
of lodging, meals, and incidental expenses incurred because of travel 
to and from the Washington Metropolitan Area in order to cast votes 
in Congress, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 31, 2025 
Mr. ROGERS of Alabama introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on House Administration 
A BILL 
To provide a per diem allowance for Members of Congress 
for the costs of lodging, meals, and incidental expenses 
incurred because of travel to and from the Washington 
Metropolitan Area in order to cast votes in Congress, 
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. PER DIEM ALLOWANCES FOR MEMBERS INCUR-
RING COSTS IN TRAVEL TO AND FROM WASH-
INGTON METROPOLITAN AREA IN ORDER TO 
CAST VOTES IN CONGRESS. 
(a) ENTITLEMENT TO PER DIEM ALLOWANCES.—A 
Member of Congress who travels on official and represen-
tational business to and from the Member’s designated 
residence to the Washington Metropolitan Area in order 
to cast votes in Congress is entitled to— 
(1) a per diem allowance for lodging in the 
Washington Metropolitan Area in accordance with 
subsection (b)(1); and 
(2) a per diem allowance for meals and inci-
dental expenses in the Washington Metropolitan 
Area in accordance with subsection (b)(2). 
(b) EXCEPTIONS.— 
(1) MEMBERS RESIDING IN WASHINGTON MET-
ROPOLITAN AREA.—A Member of Congress is not 
entitled to a per diem allowance under this section 
if the Member’s designated residence is within the 
Washington Metropolitan Area. 
(2) EXPENSES
PAID
UNDER
OTHER
ALLOW-
ANCES.—A Member of Congress is not entitled to a 
per diem allowance under this section with respect 
to lodging, meals, and incidental expenses for which 
payment is made— 
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(A) in the case of a Member of the House 
of Representatives, under the Members’ Rep-
resentational Allowance; and 
(B) in the case of a Senator, under the 
Senators’ Official Personnel and Office Expense 
Account. 
(c) PER DIEM ALLOWANCES DESCRIBED.— 
(1) LODGING.—A Member of Congress may re-
ceive a per diem allowance for lodging with respect 
to a day if— 
(A) the House of Congress in which the 
Member serves holds votes on that day; and 
(B) the Member records a vote in person 
in the chamber of that House of Congress on 
each vote held on that day. 
(2) MEALS
AND
INCIDENTAL
EXPENSES.—A 
Member of Congress may receive a per diem allow-
ance for meals and incidental expenses with respect 
to the following days: 
(A) A day for which the Member receives 
a per diem allowance for lodging under para-
graph (1). 
(B) The day before a day described in sub-
paragraph (A), but only if the Member travels 
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to the Washington Metropolitan Area on the 
day described in subparagraph (A). 
(C) The day after a day described in sub-
paragraph (A), but only if the Member travels 
from the Washington Metropolitan Area on the 
day described in subparagraph (A). 
(3) USE OF GSA RATES.—The amount of the 
per diem allowance to which a Member of Congress 
is entitled under this section shall be the amount to 
which the Member would be entitled under regula-
tions prescribed by the Administrator of General 
Services if the Member were an employee entitled to 
a per diem allowance under subchapter I of chapter 
57 of title 5, United States Code. 
(d) REGULATIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—This section shall be carried 
out in accordance with regulations promulgated by— 
(A) the Committee on House Administra-
tion of the House of Representatives, with re-
spect to the per diem allowances for Members 
of the House of Representatives and the Dele-
gates and Resident Commissioner to the Con-
gress; and 
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(B) the Committee on Rules and Adminis-
tration of the Senate, with respect to the per 
diem allowances for Senators. 
(2) ENSURING ALLOWANCES ARE NOT TREATED 
AS EARNED INCOME FOR TAX PURPOSES.—In pro-
mulgating regulations to carry out this section, the 
Committee on House Administration and the Com-
mittee on Rules and Administration shall follow to 
the greatest extent practicable the regulations each 
such Committee promulgates with respect to pay-
ments for lodging, meals, and incidental expenses in-
curred by Members of Congress under the Members’ 
Representational Allowance or the Senators’ Official 
Personnel and Office Expense Account, respectively, 
including the provisions of such regulations which 
ensure that the payment of such an allowance is not 
treated as income earned by the Member for pur-
poses of paying Federal, State, or local taxes. 
(3) EFFECT ON EXISTING REGULATIONS.—The 
regulations promulgated under paragraph (1) shall 
supersede any regulations of the Committee on 
House Administration or the Committee on Rules 
and Administration governing the reimbursement of 
travel expenses incurred by a Member of Congress 
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which are in effect at the time the regulations are 
promulgated. 
(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) The ‘‘designated residence’’ of a Member of 
Congress is— 
(A) in the case of a Member of the House 
of Representatives, a residence in the congres-
sional district the Member represents (or, in the 
case of a Member who does not reside in the 
congressional district the Member represents, a 
residence in the State in which the congres-
sional district is located), as designated by the 
Member in a statement the Member provides to 
the Committee on House Administration; and 
(B) in the case of a Senator, a residence 
in the State the Senator represents, as des-
ignated by the Senator in a statement the Sen-
ate provides to the Committee on Rules and 
Administration. 
(2) The term ‘‘Member of the House of Rep-
resentatives’’ includes a Delegate or Resident Com-
missioner to the Congress. 
(2) The term ‘‘Washington Metropolitan Area’’ 
means the District of Columbia; the cities of Alexan-
dria, Falls Church and Fairfax, and the counties of 
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Arlington and Fairfax, in Virginia; and the counties 
of Montgomery and Prince George’s in Maryland. 
(f) TREATMENT OF DELEGATES.—In this section, 
the term ‘‘Member of the House of Representatives’’ in-
cludes a Delegate or Resident Commissioner to the Con-
gress. 
(g) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section shall apply with 
respect to the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress and 
each succeeding Congress. 
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