Sec. 2. Holding salaries of senior government officials in escrow
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If by the first day of a fiscal year, each of the regular appropriation bills for such fiscal year has not been enacted into law, during the period described in paragraph
(2)the applicable payroll administrator shall deposit in an escrow account all payments otherwise required to be made during such period for the compensation of senior government officials, and shall release such payments to such officials only upon the expiration of such period. With respect to a fiscal year, the period described in this paragraph is the period which begins on the first day of the fiscal year and ends on the earlier of— the first day by which each of the regular appropriation bills for such fiscal year has been enacted into law; or the last day of the Congress during which that fiscal year begins. The applicable payroll administrator shall provide for the same withholding and remittance with respect to a payment deposited in an escrow account under subsection
(a)that would apply to the payment if the payment were not subject to such subsection. The Secretary of the Treasury shall provide the applicable payroll administrators described in paragraphs
(1)and
(2)of subsection
(d)with such assistance as may be necessary to enable the payroll administrators to carry out this section. The applicable payroll administrator shall release for payments to senior government officials any amounts remaining in any escrow account under subsection
(a)on the last day of the Congress during which the amounts were deposited in such account. In this section, the term applicable payroll administrator means, with respect to a senior government official— in the case of a senior government official who is a Member of the House of Representatives (including a Delegate or Resident Commissioner to the Congress), the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives, or an employee of the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer who is designated by the Chief Administrative Officer to carry out this section; in the case of a senior government official who is a Senator, the Secretary of the Senate, or an employee of the Office of the Secretary of the Senate who is designated by the Secretary to carry out this section; and in the case of any other senior government official, the Secretary of the Treasury.