                          TITLE 2--THE CONGRESS
 
                CHAPTER 9--OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
 
                 SUBCHAPTER II--HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 
                  Part I--Purpose, Policy, and Function
 
Sec. 281. Establishment

    There is established in the House of Representatives an office to be 
known as the Office of the Legislative Counsel, referred to hereinafter 
in this subchapter as the ``Office''.

(Pub. L. 91-510, title V, Sec. 501, Oct. 26, 1970, 84 Stat. 1201.)


                             Effective Date

    Subchapter effective Oct. 26, 1970, see section 601(5) of Pub. L. 
91-510, set out as an Effective Date of 1970 Amendment note under 
section 72a of this title.

 Transfer of Functions; Nonapplicability of Sections 271 to 277 to the 
                                  House

    Section 531 of Pub. L. 91-510 provided that: ``Any individual who on 
the date of the enactment of this Act [Oct. 26, 1970] is serving under 
an appointment by the Speaker as Legislative Counsel of the House of 
Representatives shall continue as Legislative Counsel of the House of 
Representatives in accordance with this subtitle [this subchapter]. All 
personnel, positions, property, records, and unexpended balances of 
appropriations of or for that part of the Office of the Legislative 
Counsel established under section 1303 of the Revenue Act of 1918 (2 
U.S.C., ch. 9) [sections 271 to 277 of this title] employed or held in 
or for the House of Representatives shall be transferred to the Office 
established under this subtitle; and, effective upon the date of 
enactment of this Act, the provisions of section 1303 of the Revenue Act 
of 1918 shall have no further applicability of any kind to the Speaker 
or to any committee, officer, employee, or property of the House of 
Representatives.''
