---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 288f"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "288f"
heading: "Immunity proceedings"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/288f"
units:
  - "Chapter 9D — Office of Senate Legal Counsel"
---

# §288f. Immunity proceedings


When directed to do so pursuant to [section 288b(d) of this title](/usc/2/288b.md?p=d), the Counsel shall serve as the duly authorized representative of the Senate or a committee or subcommittee of the Senate in requesting a United States district court to issue an order granting immunity pursuant to [section 6005 of title 18](/usc/18/6005.md).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–521, title VII, § 707, Oct. 26, 1978, 92 Stat. 1880.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Jan. 3, 1979, see section 717 of Pub. L. 95–521, set out as a note under section 288 of this title.