---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 608"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "608"
heading: "Lump-sum payments to enhance staff recruitment and to reward exceptional performance"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/608"
units:
  - "Chapter 17 — Congressional Budget Office"
---

# §608. Lump-sum payments to enhance staff recruitment and to reward exceptional performance

- (a) The Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall have the authority to make lump-sum payments to enhance staff recruitment and to reward exceptional performance by an [employee](/usc/2/4558.md?p=2) or a group of [employees](/usc/2/4558.md?p=2).
- (b) [Subsection (a)](#a) shall apply with respect to fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1999.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–57, title I, § 106, Sept. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 418.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Congressional Operations Appropriations Act, 2000, which is title I of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2000, and not as part of title II of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 which comprises this chapter.