[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1812 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1812

To amend the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1973, to permit a Senator 
to direct that excess funds allocated to the Senator's personal office 
 for a fiscal year be returned to the United States Treasury to reduce 
                            the public debt.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 31 (legislative day, January 25), 1994

Mr. Kempthorne introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
         referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1973, to permit a Senator 
to direct that excess funds allocated to the Senator's personal office 
 for a fiscal year be returned to the United States Treasury to reduce 
                            the public debt.

    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 Office Savings Act'' (SOS 
Act).

SEC. 2. USE OF EXCESS SENATORS' OFFICE FUNDS TO REDUCE THE PUBLIC DEBT.

    (a) Direction By A Senator To Return Excess Funds to the 
Treasury.--Section 506 of the Supplemental Appropriations Act 1973 (2 
U.S.C. 58) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subsection:
    ``(k) Not later than 90 days after the close of a fiscal year, a 
Senator may direct that all or any part of the amount of funds that 
were appropriated to the Senate for that fiscal year and allocated to 
the Senator's personal office under this section and that remain 
unexpended and unobligated shall be paid into the sinking fund for 
retiring and canceling bonds and notes described in section 3112 of 
title 31, United States Code.''.
    (b) Reduction of Public Debt Limit.--Section 3101(b) of title 31, 
United States Code, is amended by striking the period at the end and 
inserting ``, less the aggregate amount of funds paid into the fund 
described in section 3112 at the direction of Senators pursuant to 
subsection (k) of section 506 of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 
1973 (2 U.S.C. 58(k)), since the date of enactment of that 
subsection.''.

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