---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 5623"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "5623"
heading: "Effective date"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/5623"
units:
  - "Chapter 55 — House of Representatives Officers and Administration"
  - "Subchapter IX — Corrections Calendar Office"
---

# §5623. Effective date


The allowance under [section 5622 of this title](/usc/2/5622.md)—

- (1) shall be available beginning with the month of May 1997;
- (2) through the end of September 1997, shall be paid from the applicable accounts of the House of Representatives on a pro rata basis; and
- (3) beginning with fiscal year 1998, shall be paid as provided in appropriations Acts.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–55, title I, § 101, Oct. 7, 1997, 111 Stat. 1183.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 74d–2 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Section is based on section 2 of House Resolution No. 130, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Apr. 24, 1997, which was enacted into permanent law by Pub. L. 105–55.