---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 287"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "287"
heading: "Establishment"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/287"
units:
  - "Chapter 9C — Office of Parliamentarian of House of Representatives"
---

# §287. Establishment


There is hereby established in the House of Representatives an office to be known as the Office of the Parliamentarian, hereinafter in this chapter referred to as the “Office”.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–94, title I, § 115, Aug. 5, 1977, 91 Stat. 668.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is based on section 1 of House Resolution No. 502, Ninety-fifth Congress, Apr. 20, 1977, which was enacted into permanent law by Pub. L. 95–94.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section 6 of House Resolution No. 502, Apr. 20, 1977, as enacted into permanent law by section 115 of Pub. L. 95–94, provided that: “This resolution [this chapter] shall take effect as of March 1, 1977, and shall continue in effect until otherwise provided by law.”