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 95 STAT. 62

2 USC 61-1 note.

2 USC 64-2 note.

Travel expenses.

2 USC 58b.

PUBLIC LAW 97-12—JUNE 5, 1981 transcribers at annual rates of compensation; no temporary reporters of debates or expert transcribers may be employed under authority of this provision for more than ninety days in any fiscal year; and payments made under authority of this proviso shall be made from the contingent fund of the Senate upon vouchers approved by the Secretary of the Senate.". SEC. 106. (a) Effective January 1, 1981, the allowance for administrative and clerical assistance of each Senator from the State of Florida is increased to that allowed Senators from States having a population of nine million but less than ten million, the population of said State having exceeded nine million inhabitants. (b) Effective January 1, 1981, the allowance for administrative and clerical assistance of each Senator from the State of Washington is increased to that allowed Senators from States having a population of four million but less than five million, the population of said State having exceeded four million inhabitants. (c) Effective January 1, 1981, the allowance, for administrative and clerical assistance of each Senator from the States of Oklahoma and South Carolina is increased to that allowed Senators from States having a population of three million but less than four million, the population of said States having exceeded three million inhabitants. SEC. 107. Hereafter, the Secretary of the Senate as Disbursing Officer of the Senate is authorized to make transfers between appropriations of funds available for disbursement by him for fiscal year 1981, subject to the customary reprogramming procedures of the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate. SEC. 108. Effective with the fiscal year ending September 30, 1981, section 117 of the Second Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1976 (2 U.S.C. 61f-la), is amended by striking out ^'$92,000" and inserting in lieu thereof "$167,000". SEC. 109. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act (or any provision of law enacted prior to the date of enactment of this Act), the aggregate of the funds (other than funds appropriated under title II of this Act for increased pay costs) appropriated for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1981, for projects or activities for which disbursements are made by the Secretary of the Senate, shall not exceed an amount equal to 90 per centum of the aggregate of the funds (including funds appropriated for increased pay costs) appropriated for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980, for such projects or activities. SEC. 110. (a) Effective in the case of each fiscal year (commencing with the fiscal year ending September 30, 1981) each Senator, at his election, may transfer from his Administrative, Clerical, and Legislative Assistance Allowance (hereinafter referred to as the "clerk hire allowance") to such Senator's Official Office Expense Account any balance remaining, or any portion thereof in such clerk hire allowance as of the close of the fiscal year. Any balance so transferred to a Senator's Official Office Expense Account shall be available only for expenses incurred during the calendar year in which occurred the close of the fiscal year. Each Senator electing to make such a transfer shall advise the Senate Disbursing Office in writing, no later than December 31, and such transfer shall be made on such date (but not earlier than the October 1 which next succeeds the close of the fiscal year with respect to which the balance occurs) as may be specified by the Senator. (b) Transfer of funds under subsection (a) shall be made from the appropriation "Administrative, Clerical, and Legislative Assistance Allowance to Senators" under the heading "Senate" and "Salaries,

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