---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 4556"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "4556"
heading: "State income tax withholding; definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/4556"
units:
  - "Chapter 45 — Congressional Pay and Benefits"
  - "Subchapter II — House of Representatives"
  - "Part B — Administration"
---

# §4556. State income tax withholding; definitions


For purposes of [section 4555 of this title](/usc/2/4555.md) and this section—

- (1) the term “State” means any of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any other territory or possession of the United States;
- (2) the term “Member” means a [Member of the House of Representatives](/usc/2/4532.md?p=4), the Delegates from the District of Columbia, Guam, and the Virgin Islands, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico; and
- (3) the term “legislative days” does not include any calendar day on which the House of Representatives is not in session.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–440, title II, § 101, Oct. 1, 1976, 90 Stat. 1448.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 60e–1b of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Section is based on section 2 of House Resolution No. 732, Ninety-fourth Congress, Nov. 4, 1975, which was enacted into permanent law by Pub. L. 94–440.