An Act to amend section 136 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to correct an omission in existing law with respect to the entitlement of committees of the House of Representatives to the use of certain currencies
PL 92-136 (H.R.4713), enacted 10/11/1971

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PUBLIC LAW92-135-OCT. 8, 1971 
[85 STAT. 
Fiscal year 
limitationg 
Short title. 
TITLE V—GENERA!^ PROVISIONS 
SEC. 501. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless 
expressly so provided herein. 
This Act may be cited as the "Public Works for Water and Power 
Development and Atomic Energy Commission Appropriation Act, 
1972". 
Approved October 5, 1971. 
October 8, 1971 
[S. 2260] 
Public Law 92-135 
AN ACT 
To ameml further the Pea<'e Corps Act (75 Stat. 612), as auiended. 
Peace Corps 
Act, amendment. 
84 Stat. 464. 
Be it enacted hy the Seriate and Tloune of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 3(b) of 
the Peace C.orps Act (22 U.S.C. 2502(b)), "which authorizes appro-
priations to carry out the purposes of tliat Act, is amended by striking 
out "1971"' and "$98,800,000" and inserting in lieu thereof "1972" and 
"$77,200,000'', respectively. 
Approved October 8, 1971. 
Public Law 92-136 
October 11, 1971 
[H. R. 4713] 
Legislative 
Reorganization 
Act of 1946, 
amendments. 
AN ACT 
To amend section 136 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to correct an 
omission in existing law with respect to the entitlement of the committees of 
the House of Representatives to the use of certain currencies, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 136 of 
the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 190d), as 
amended by section 118 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 
(84 Stat, 1156; Public Law 91-510), is amended to read as follows: 
Report to Con-
gress. 
LEGISLATIVE REVIEW BY STANDING COMMITTEES O r T H E 
SENATE 
AND HOUSE o r REPRESENTATIVES 
"SEC. 136. (a) In order to assist the Congress in— 
" (1) its analysis, appraisal, aiid evaluation of the application, 
administration, and execution of the laws enacted by the Congress, 
and 
"(2) its formulation, consideration, and enactment of such 
modifications of or changes in those laws, and of such additional 
legislation, as may be necessary or appropriate, 
each standing committee of the Senate and the House of Representa-
tives shall review and study, on a continuing basis, the application, 
administration, and execution of those laws, or parts of laws, the 
subjiect matter of which is within the jurisdiction of that committee. 
"(b) In each odd-numbered year beginning on or after January 1, 
1973, each standing committee of the Senate shall svibmit, not later 
than March 31, to the Senate, and each standing committee of the 
House shall submit, not later than January 2, to the House, a report 
on the activities of that committee under this section during the 
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Congress ending at noon on January 3 of such year. 
"(c) The preceding provisions of this section do not apply to the 
Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the Committees on 
Appropriations, House Administration, Kules, and Standards of Offi-
cial Conduct of the House.". 
SEC. 2. Title I of the table of contents of the Legislative Reorganiza-
tion Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 813) is amended by striking out— 
"Sec. 136. Legislative review by Senate standing committees." 
and inserting in lieu thereof— 
"Sec. 136. Legislative review by standing committees of the Senate and House 
of Representatives.". 
SEC. 3. (a) The fifth sentence of section 133(g) of the Legislative 
Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 LLS.C. 190a(g)) is .amended to read 
as follows: "Each such supplemental authorization resolution shall 
include a specification of the amount of all supplemental funds sought 
by that committee for expenditure by all subcommittees thereof under 
such resolution and the amount so sought for each such subcommittee. 
Each such supplemental authorization resolution shall amend the 
annual authorization resolution of such committee for that year unless 
the committee offered no annual authorization resolution for that 
year, in which case the committee's supplemental authorization resolu-
tion shall not be an amendment to any other resolution and any sub-
sequent supplemental authorization resolution of such committee for 
the same year shall amend the first such resolution ofi'ered by the 
committee for that year. Each such supplemental resolution reported 
by such committee shall be accompanied by a report to the Senate 
specifying with particularity the purpose for which such authoriza-
tion is sought and the reason why such authorization could not have 
been sought at the time of, or within the period provided for, the 
submission by such committee of an annual authorization resolution 
for that year." 
(b) Section 133(g) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 
(2 U.S.C. 190a (g)) is further amended by adding at the end thereof 
the following new sentence: "This subsection shall not apply to any 
resolution requesting funds in addition to the amount specified in such 
section 134(a) and which are to be expended only for the same pur-
poses for which such amount may be expended." 
(c) The amendments made by subsections (a) and (b) of this sec-
tion are enacted by the Senate as an exercise of its rulemaking power, 
and such amendments are deemed a part of the Standing Rules of the 
Senate, superseding other individual rules of the Senate only to the 
extent that such amendments are inconsistent with those other indi-
vidual Senate rules, subject to and with full recognition of the power 
of the Senate to enact or change any rule of the Senate at any time 
in its exercise of its constitutional right to determine the rules of its 
proceedings. 
SEC. 4. (a) The Secretary of the Senate shall, upon the written 
request of any individual whose compensation is disbursed by the 
Secretary, pay such compensation by sending a check to a financial 
organization designated by that individual and drawn in favor of such 
organization and by specifying the individual to whose account 
(including an account providing for the purchase of shares) the pay-
ment is to be credited. No reimbursement shall be required for the 
sending of any such check. 
(b) If more than one individual making a request under subsec-
tion (a) of this section designates the same financial organization, the 
Secretary maj?^ pay such compensation by sending to the organization 
a check that is drawn in favor of the organization for the total amount 
designated by those individuals and by specifying the amount to be 
Exception. 
Supplemental 
authorization 
resolution. 
84 Stat. 1149. 
Report to 
Senate. 
Exception. 
60 Stat. 831. 
2 u s e 190b. 
Salary deposit 
in financial or-
ganizations. 
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Rule making 
authority. 
"Financial 
organization." 
Minority party 
staff appointees. 
84 Stat. 1176. 
Professional 
staff, specialized 
training. 
84 Stat. 1180. 
Senate salaries, 
advance payment. 
74 Stat. 53. 
Detailed GAO 
employees, salary 
reimbursement. 
84 Stat. 1171. 
Effective dates. 
credited to the account of each of those individuals. 
(c) Payment by the United States of a check, drawn in accordance 
with this section and properly endorsed, shall constitute a full acquit-
tance for the amount due to the individual making any such request. 
(d) The Secretary of the Senate is authorized to promulgate rules 
and regulations to carry out the provisions of this section. 
(e) For purposes of this section, "financial organization" means any 
bank, savings bank, savings and loan association or similar institution, 
or Federal or State chartered credit union. 
SEC. 5. (a) Section 202(g) of the Legislative Reorganization Act 
of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 72a (g)) is amended to read as follows: 
" (g) In any case in which a request for the appointment of a minor-
ity staff member under subsection (a) or subsection (c) is made at 
any time when no vacancy exists to which the appointment requested 
may be made— 
"(1) the person appointed pursuant to such a request under 
subsection (a) may serve in addition to any other professional 
staff members authorized by such subsection and may be paid 
from the contingent fund of the Senate until such time as such a 
vacancy occurs, at which time such person shall be considered to 
have been appointed to such vacancy; and 
"(2) the person appointed pursuant to such a request under 
subsection (c) may serve in addition to any other clerical staff 
members authorized by such subsection and may be paid, until 
otherwise provided, from the contingent fund of the Senate." 
(b) Section 2()2(j)(l) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 
1946 (2 U.S.C. 72a(j) (1)) is amended by adding at the end thereof 
the following new sentence: "Any joint committee of the Congress 
whose expenses are paid out of funds disbursed by the Secretary of 
the Senate or by the Clerk of the House, the Committee on Appro-
priations of the Senate, and the Majority Policy Committee and 
Minority Policy Committee of the Senate are each authorized to 
expend, for the purpose of providing assistance in accordance with 
paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) of this subsection for membeis of its 
staff in obtaining such training, any part of amounts appropriated 
to that committee." 
SEC. 6. Clause (2) of the first section of the joint resolution entitled 
"Joint Resolution relating to the payment of salaries of employees of 
the Senate", approved April 20, 1960 (2 U.S.C. 60c-l), is amended 
by inserting immediately after "holiday" the following: "(including 
any holiday on which the banks of the District of Columbia are closed 
pursuant to law)". 
SEC. 8. Section 235 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 
(31 U.S.C. 1175) is amended by adding at the end thereof the fol-
lowing new subsection: 
"(c) A committee of the Senate, or a joint committee whose expenses 
are disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate, shall reimburse the Gen-
eral Accounting Office for the salary of each employee of that office 
for any period during which that employee is assigned or detailed to 
such committee or joint committee." 
SEC. 9. (a) The amendments made by the first section, section 2, 
and section 5 of this Act shall become effective as of noon on January 3, 
1971. 
(b) Sections 4 and 6 of this Act shall become effective as of July 1, 
1971. 
(c) Section 8 of this Act shall become effective on March 1, 1972. 
Approved October 11, 1971.