[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5682 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5682

  To improve the operation of certain facilities and programs of the 
           House of Representatives, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 1, 2010

  Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania introduced the following bill; which was 
           referred to the Committee on House Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
  To improve the operation of certain facilities and programs of the 
           House of Representatives, 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. MEMBERSHIP IN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EXERCISE FACILITY FOR 
              ACTIVE DUTY ARMED FORCES MEMBERS ASSIGNED TO 
              CONGRESSIONAL LIAISON OFFICE.

    Any active duty member of the Armed Forces who is assigned to a 
congressional liaison office of the Armed Forces at the House of 
Representatives may obtain membership in the exercise facility 
established for employees of the House of Representatives (as described 
in section 103(a) of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2005) 
in the same manner as an employee of the House of Representatives, in 
accordance with such regulations as the Committee on House 
Administration may promulgate.

SEC. 2. REVOLVING FUND FOR HOUSE CHILD CARE CENTER.

    (a) Conversion of House Child Care Center Account Into Revolving 
Fund.--
            (1) In general.--Section 312(d)(1) of the Legislative 
        Branch Appropriations Act, 1992 (2 U.S.C. 2062(d)(1)) is 
        amended to read as follows:
    ``(1) There is established in the Treasury of the United States a 
revolving fund for the House of Representatives to be known as the 
`House Child Care Center Revolving Fund' (hereafter in this section 
referred to as the `Fund'), consisting of the amounts received under 
subsection (c) and any other funds deposited by the Chief 
Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives from amounts 
received by the House of Representatives with respect to the operation 
of the center. Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3), the Fund 
shall be the exclusive source for all salaries and expenses for 
activities carried out under this section.''.
            (2) Transfer of existing account.--Any amounts in the 
        account established by section 312(d)(1) of such Act as of the 
        day before the effective date of this section, together with 
        any amounts in the House Services Revolving Fund as of the 
        effective date of this section which, at the time of deposit 
        into the House Services Revolving Fund, were designated for 
        purposes of the House Child Care Center, shall be transferred 
        to the House Child Care Center Revolving Fund established by 
        such section, as amended by paragraph (1).
    (b) Transfer Authority.--Section 312 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 2062) is 
amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (e) as subsection (f); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (d) the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(e) The Fund shall be treated as a category of allowances and 
expenses for purposes of section 101(a) of the Legislative Branch 
Appropriations Act, 1993 (2 U.S.C. 95b(a)).''.
    (c) Effective Date.--This section and the amendments made by this 
section shall take effect October 1, 2010, and shall apply with respect 
to fiscal year 2011 and each succeeding fiscal year.

SEC. 3. MISCELLANEOUS TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS.

    (a) The second undesignated paragraph under the heading ``Under 
Superintendent of the Capitol Buildings and Grounds'' in the Act of 
April 28, 1902 (chapter 594; 32 Stat. 125; 2 U.S.C. 2012), is amended 
to read as follows:
    ``The Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives 
shall supervise and direct the care and repair of all furniture in the 
Hall, cloakrooms, lobby, committee rooms, and offices of the House, and 
all furniture required for the House of Representatives or for any of 
its committee rooms or offices shall be procured on designs and 
specifications made or approved by the Chief Administrative Officer.''.
    (b) Effective as if included in the enactment of Public Law 111-
145, section 3 of House Resolution 661, Ninety-fifth Congress, agreed 
to July 29, 1977 (2 U.S.C. 84-2), is restored into permanent law.
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