§3255 Restrictions on Lobbying Activities

Summary

Money from this Act must not be used for public campaigns or materials meant to support or oppose laws or rules. That includes printed or electronic materials, broadcasts, videos, or other communications aimed at getting a law passed or stopped in Congress or any state or local legislature, or at influencing proposed or pending rules or orders from a state or local executive branch. Normal executive-legislative contacts and making those materials when speaking directly to a legislature or to a state/local executive branch are allowed. Money from this Act also cannot pay the salary or expenses of a grant or contract recipient, or someone working for them, for work meant to influence laws, budget decisions, rules, administrative actions, or executive orders before Congress or any state or local government. The ban does not apply to normal executive-legislative contacts or to a state, local, or tribal agency or official taking part in policy work inside its own executive branch.