# Public Law 117–10 117th Congress 

To allow Senators, Senators-elect, committees of the Senate, leadership offices, and other offices of the Senate to share employees, and for other purposes. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

## SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Senate Shared Employee Act’’. 

## SEC. 2. ALLOWING SENATORS, COMMITTEES, LEADERSHIP OFFICES, AND OTHER OFFICES OF THE SENATE TO SHARE EMPLOYEES. 

(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 114 of the Legislative Branch Appro- priation Act, 1978 (2 U.S.C. 4576) is amended— 

(2) by striking ‘‘position, each of’’ and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting the following: ‘‘qualifying position if the aggregate gross pay from those posi- tions does not exceed— 

‘‘(1) the maximum rate specified in section 105(d)(2) of the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1968 (2 U.S.C. 4575(d)(2)), as amended and modified; or 

‘‘(2) in a case where 1 or more of the individual’s qualifying positions are positions described in subsection (d)(2)(B), the maximum rate specified in section 105(e)(3) of the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1968 (2 U.S.C. 4575(e)(3)), as amended and modified.’’; and 

‘‘(b)(1) For an individual serving in more than 1 qualifying position under subsection (a), the cost of any travel for official business shall be paid by the office authorizing the travel. 

‘‘(2) Messages for each electronic mail account used in connec- tion with carrying out the official duties of an individual serving in more than 1 qualifying position under subsection (a) may be delivered to and sent from a single handheld communications device provided to the individual for purposes of official business. 

‘‘(3)(A) For purposes of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.), the rate of basic pay for an individual serving in more than 1 qualifying position under subsection (a) shall be the total basic pay received by the individual from all such positions. 

‘‘(B) For an individual serving in more than one qualifying position under subsection (a), for purposes of the rights and obliga- tions described in, or described in the provisions applied under, title II of the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. 1311 et seq.) related to practices used at a time when the individual 

(1) by inserting ‘‘(a)’’ before ‘‘Notwithstanding’’; 

(3) by adding at the end the following: 

# An Act 

Apr. 23, 2021 

[S. 422] 

2 USC 4501 note. Senate Shared Employee Act. 

