[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6956 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6956

  To permit the office of a Member of the House of Representatives to 
        employ up to 4 paid interns under the office's Members' 
   Representational Allowance without affecting the number of other 
       employees whom the office may employ under such Allowance.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 27, 2018

Mr. Peters (for himself, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Valadao, Mr. Kilmer, Mr. Welch, 
    Mr. Crist, Mr. Panetta, Ms. Bonamici, Mr. Aguilar, Mr. Scott of 
Virginia, Mr. Evans, Ms. Tsongas, Mr. Beyer, Mr. Lawson of Florida, Mr. 
  Veasey, Mr. Deutch, and Mr. Khanna) introduced the following bill; 
      which was referred to the Committee on House Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
  To permit the office of a Member of the House of Representatives to 
        employ up to 4 paid interns under the office's Members' 
   Representational Allowance without affecting the number of other 
       employees whom the office may employ under such Allowance.

    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 ``Intern Opportunity Act''.

SEC. 2. PERMITTING USE OF MEMBERS' REPRESENTATIONAL ALLOWANCE TO EMPLOY 
              UP TO 4 PAID INTERNS WITHOUT AFFECTING NUMBER OF OTHER 
              EMPLOYEES.

    (a) In General.--Section 104(a) of the House of Representatives 
Administrative Reform Technical Corrections Act (2 U.S.C. 5321(a)) is 
amended--
            (1) by striking ``not more than 18 permanent employees 
        and'' and inserting ``not more than 18 permanent employees, not 
        more than 4 interns, and''; and
            (2) by striking paragraph (1) and redesignating paragraphs 
        (2) through (5) as paragraphs (1) through (4).
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to fiscal year 2018 and each succeeding fiscal year.
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