                          TITLE 2--THE CONGRESS
 
            CHAPTER 3--COMPENSATION AND ALLOWANCES OF MEMBERS
 
Sec. 38b. Death gratuity payments as gifts

    Any death gratuity payment at any time specifically appropriated by 
any Act of Congress or at any time made out of the applicable accounts 
of the House of Representatives or the contingent fund of the Senate 
shall be held to have been a gift.

(June 5, 1952, ch. 369, Ch. I, 66 Stat. 101; Pub. L. 104-186, title II, 
Sec. 203(6), Aug. 20, 1996, 110 Stat. 1725.)

                          Codification

    Section is also set out as section 125a of this title.


                               Amendments

    1996--Pub. L. 104-186 substituted ``applicable accounts of the House 
of Representatives or the contingent fund'' for ``contingent fund of the 
House of Representatives or''.
