---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 4914"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "4914"
heading: "Academic year and summer term for page program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/4914"
units:
  - "Chapter 49 — Congressional Pages"
  - "Subchapter II — House of Representatives"
---

# §4914. Academic year and summer term for page program


The [page](/usc/2/4916.md?p=2) program shall consist of the two semesters of the [academic year](/usc/2/4916.md?p=1), plus a non-academic summer term.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 98–367, title I, § 103, July 17, 1984, 98 Stat. 479; Pub. L. 104–186, title II, § 204(40)(B), Aug. 20, 1996, 110 Stat. 1736.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 88c–2 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Section is based on section 2 of House Resolution No. 234, Ninety-eighth Congress, June 29, 1983, which was enacted into permanent law by Pub. L. 98–367.

### Amendments

1996—Pub. L. 104–186 substituted “semesters of the academic year, plus a non-academic” for “terms of the academic year plus a”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section 5 of House Resolution No. 234, Ninety-eighth Congress, June 29, 1983, as enacted into permanent law by Pub. L. 98–367, title I, § 103, July 17, 1984, 98 Stat. 479, provided that: “This resolution [enacting this section, sections 4915 and 4916, and former section 88c–1 of this title] shall take effect on the date on which this resolution is agreed to [June 29, 1983], except that section 3(a)(1)(A) and section 3(b)(2) [section 4915(a)(1)(A), (b)(2) of this title] shall apply to terms beginning after November 30, 1983.”