§3255 Restrictions on lobbying activities

Summary

Money from this Act must not pay for efforts to promote or oppose public policy. It also cannot pay for making or sharing materials (pamphlets, videos, radio, web posts, etc.) that are meant to support or defeat a law before Congress or a state or local legislature, or a proposed or pending regulation, administrative action, or order by a state or local executive branch. Normal, routine contacts between the executive and legislative branches are allowed. Using those materials when officially presenting to Congress, a state or local legislature, or a state or local executive branch is allowed too. Money from this Act also cannot pay the salary or expenses of grant or contract recipients, or their agents, for work meant to influence the passing or issuing of laws, budget bills, rules, administrative actions, or executive orders before Congress or state governments, or state or local legislatures. That rule does not stop normal executive-legislative communications or a state, local, or tribal agency or officer from taking part in policymaking or administrative work inside their own executive branch.