---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 5105"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "5105"
heading: "Transfer of appropriations by House Leadership Offices"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/5105"
units:
  - "Chapter 51 — House of Representatives Leadership"
  - "Subchapter I — General"
---

# §5105. Transfer of appropriations by House Leadership Offices

- (a) **In general—** Each office described under the heading “HOUSE LEADERSHIP OFFICES” in the Act making appropriations for the legislative branch for a fiscal year may transfer any amounts appropriated for the office under such heading among the various categories of allowances and expenses for the office under such heading.
- (b) **Official expenses—** [Subsection (a)](#a) shall not apply with respect to any amounts appropriated for official expenses.
- (c) **Applicability—** This section shall apply with respect to fiscal year 1999 and each succeeding fiscal year.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–31, title III, § 3009, May 21, 1999, 113 Stat. 93.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 74a–11 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Section is from the 1999 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act.