SRES 62119th CongressIn Committee

An original resolution authorizing expenditures by the Special Committee on Aging.

Introduced: Feb 6, 2025

Standard Summary

Comprehensive overview in 1-2 paragraphs

This resolution authorizes the Special Committee on Aging to incur expenditures and hire staff for a two-year window, from March 1, 2025, through February 28, 2027. It allows spending from the Senate’s contingent fund, hiring personnel, and optionally using services from other government departments or agencies with prior consent. The measure sets specific spending caps for three defined periods and provides detail on how expenses may be paid (including allowances for consultants and staff training) and when agency contributions may cover certain compensation costs. Overall, it formalizes and limits the committee’s budget and administrative authority to support its operations and aging-related work.

Key Points

1General authority: The Special Committee on Aging may spend from the Senate’s contingent fund, hire personnel, and, with prior consent, use services of other agencies on a reimbursable or nonreimbursable basis for March 1, 2025, to February 28, 2027.
2Budget caps by period:
3- March 1, 2025 – September 30, 2025: up to $2,060,695
4- October 1, 2025 – September 30, 2026: up to $3,532,620
5- October 1, 2026 – February 28, 2027: up to $1,471,925
6Allowances within caps: In each period, up to $1,500 may be used for the procurement of consultants or organizations, and up to $1,500 may be used for training the committee’s professional staff (per the referenced statutes).
7Payment and vouchers: Most expenses are paid from the contingent fund upon approval by the committee chair, but certain items do not require vouchers (salary payments at annual rates, telecommunications, stationery, postages, copying metered charges, Senate recording/photographic services, and franked/mass mail costs).
8Agency contributions: The bill authorizes necessary agency contributions related to compensation of committee employees, drawn from the Senate’s appropriations account for “Expenses of Inquiries and Investigations,” covering the same three time periods.

Impact Areas

Primary group/area affected: The Senate Special Committee on Aging and its staff, which will have defined budget authority and staffing flexibility to conduct aging-related research, hearings, and oversight.Secondary group/area affected: Senate operating entities that provide services (e.g., Office of the Sergeant at Arms, Doorkeeper, Postmaster, stationery, recording/photographic services) that may be engaged under the resolution.Additional impacts: Provides budget discipline and clear authorization for expenditures, including the use of external consultants and staff training, with explicit limits to ensure oversight and accountability over the committee’s spending during the specified period.

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