US Code

Public Law 119-73 (01/23/2026)

2 U.S.C. § 4591

Vice President, Senators, officers, and employees paid by Secretary of Senate; payment of salary; advance payment

The compensation of the Vice President, Senators, and officers and employees, whose compensation is disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate, shall be payable on the fifth day of the month following the month in which such compensation accrued, except that—
(1)
Pub. L. 97–51, § 111(a)(1)95 Stat. 962 Repealed. , , ;
(2)
when such fifth or twentieth day falls on Saturday, Sunday, or on a legal holiday (including any holiday on which the banks of the District of Columbia are closed pursuant to law), such compensation shall be payable on the next preceding workday; and
(3)
any part of such compensation accrued for any month may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Senate, be paid prior to the day specified in the preceding provisions of this section.
For purposes of title 26 and for accounting and reporting purposes, disbursements made in accordance with this section on the fifth day of a month, or on the next preceding workday if such fifth day falls on Saturday, Sunday, or a legal holiday, shall be considered to have been made on the last day of the preceding month.

Pub. L. 86–426, § 174 Stat. 53Pub. L. 92–136, § 685 Stat. 378Pub. L. 96–38, title I, § 108(a)93 Stat. 113Pub. L. 97–5195 Stat. 962Pub. L. 97–257, title I, § 105(a)96 Stat. 849Pub. L. 99–514, § 2100 Stat. 2095(, , ; , , ; , , ; , §§ 111(a), 112(a), , ; , , ; , , .)

Editorial Notes

Codification

section 60c–1 of this titleSection was formerly classified to prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Amendments

Pub. L. 99–5141986— substituted “Internal Revenue Code of 1986” for “Internal Revenue Code of 1954”, which for purposes of codification was translated as “title 26” thus requiring no change in text.

Pub. L. 97–2571982— inserted reference to the Vice President.

Pub. L. 97–511981— substituted “Senators and officers and employees” for “officers (other than Senators) and employees”, struck out cl. (1) which provided that all compensation for the month of December be payable on the twentieth of December, inserted “purposes of title 26 and for” after “For” in second sentence, and struck out provisions that, in cases in which officers or employees of the Senate died during the month of December and the full compensation of that officer or employee for that month had been disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate before the Secretary received notice of the death, no recovery could be made of any portion of the compensation so disbursed.

Pub. L. 96–381979— provided that, in cases in which officers or employees of the Senate die during the month of December and the full compensation of that officer or employee for that month has been disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate before the Secretary receives notice of the death, no recovery shall be made of any portion of the compensation so disbursed.

Pub. L. 92–1361971—Cl. (2). inserted “(including any holiday on which the banks of the District of Columbia are closed pursuant to law)” after “holiday”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date of 1982 Amendment

Pub. L. 97–257, title I, § 105(c)96 Stat. 849

section 104 of Title 3“Amendments and repeals made by the preceding provisions of this section [amending this section and , The President] shall be effective in the case of compensation payable for months after December 1981.”
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Effective Date of 1981 Amendment

Pub. L. 97–51, § 111(b)95 Stat. 962

“The amendments made by subsection (a) [amending this section] shall be effective in the case of compensation payable for months after December 1982.”
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section 112(a) of Pub. L. 97–51section 112(e) of Pub. L. 97–51section 6301 of this titleAmendment by effective in the case of compensation payable for months after December 1981, see , set out as an Effective Date of 1981 Amendment note under .

Effective Date of 1979 Amendment

Pub. L. 96–38, title I, § 108(b)93 Stat. 113

“The amendment made by subsection (a) [amending this section] shall take effect on .”
, , , provided that:

Effective Date of 1971 Amendment

Pub. L. 92–136, § 9(b)85 Stat. 378

section 60c–2 of this title“Sections 4 and 6 of this Act [enacting former and amending this section] shall become effective as of .”
, , , provided that:

Effective Date

Pub. L. 86–426, § 374 Stat. 54

“This joint resolution [enacting this section and amending former sections 60d, 60e, and 60e–1 of this title] shall be effective with respect to compensation accruing on or after the first day of the month following the month in which it is enacted [].”
, , , provided that: