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§12584 Ineligible service categories

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 129— - NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE STATE GRANT PROGRAM › Part Part II— - Application and Approval Process › § 12584

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Requires applicants for federal national service funding to promise that any program or approved service position paid for with that funding will not do work that directly helps certain groups. Those groups include for‑profit businesses, labor unions, partisan political groups, religious groups (unless the work does not use the federal funding or the participants are not giving religious instruction, leading worship, running required religious programs, building or running worship facilities, or trying to convert others), and nonprofits that break the rules in tax code section 501(c). Participants may still do advocacy on their own. The rule about not helping for‑profit businesses does not apply to a Regional Corporation set up under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1602(g)) if it is a for‑profit company that is carrying out nonprofit activities.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §12584

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(a)Except as provided in subsection (b), an application submitted to the Corporation under section 12582 of this title shall include an assurance by the applicant that any national service program carried out using assistance provided under section 12571 of this title and any approved national service position provided to an applicant will not be used to perform service that provides a direct benefit to any—
(1)business organized for profit;
(2)labor union;
(3)partisan political organization;
(4)organization engaged in religious activities, unless such service does not involve the use of assistance provided under section 12571 of this title or participants—
(A)to give religious instruction;
(B)to conduct worship services;
(C)to provide instruction as part of a program that includes mandatory religious education or worship;
(D)to construct or operate facilities devoted to religious instruction or worship or to maintain facilities primarily or inherently devoted to religious instruction or worship; or
(E)to engage in any form of proselytization; or
(5)nonprofit organization that fails to comply with the restrictions contained in section 501(c) of title 26, except that nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent participants from engaging in advocacy activities undertaken at their own initiative.
(b)The requirement of subsection (a) relating to an assurance regarding direct benefits to businesses organized for profit shall not apply with respect to a Regional Corporation, as defined in section 3(g) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1602(g)), that is established in accordance with such Act [43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.] as a for-profit corporation but that is engaging in nonprofit activities.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, referred to in subsec. (b), is Pub. L. 92–203, Dec. 18, 1971, 85 Stat. 688, which is classified generally to chapter 33 (§ 1601 et seq.) of Title 43, Public Lands. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 1601 of Title 43 and Tables.

Prior Provisions

A prior section 132 of Pub. L. 101–610 was renumbered section 199L and classified to section 12655k of this title, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 103–82, § 101(e)(8)(A).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1993, see section 123 of Pub. L. 103–82, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1993 Amendment note under section 1701 of Title 16, Conservation.

Reference

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 12584

Title 42The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

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