---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 4916"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "4916"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/4916"
units:
  - "Chapter 49 — Congressional Pages"
  - "Subchapter II — House of Representatives"
---

# §4916. Definitions


As used in sections [4914](/usc/2/4914.md) to 4916 of this title, the term—

- (1) “academic year” means a regular school year, consisting of two semesters;
- (2) “page” means a page of the House of Representatives, but such term does not include a full time, permanent [employee](/usc/2/4558.md?p=2) of the House of Representatives with supervisory responsibility for pages; and
- (3) “congressional page” means a [page](#2) of the House of Representatives or the Senate.

## Source credit

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

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 88c–4 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Section is based on section 4 of House Resolution No. 234, Ninety-eighth Congress, June 29, 1983, which was enacted into permanent law by Pub. L. 98–367.

### Amendments

1996—Par. (1). Pub. L. 104–186 substituted “semesters” for “terms”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective June 29, 1983, see note set out under section 4914 of this title.