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

# §288m. Contingent fund


The expenses of the Office shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate in accordance with [section 6503 of this title](/usc/2/6503.md), and upon vouchers approved by the Counsel.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–521, title VII, § 716, Oct. 26, 1978, 92 Stat. 1885.)

## 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.