PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

When applying for federal help for a national service program, the applicant must promise that the program or any approved service positions paid for with that help will not be used to directly benefit certain groups. The rule covers five kinds of groups: for-profit businesses, labor unions, partisan political groups, religious organizations (unless the funded work does not use the federal help or the participants to teach religion, lead worship, require religious instruction, build or run worship places, or try to convert people), and nonprofits that do not follow the limits in section 501(c) of title 26. Participants may still do advocacy on their own. The ban on directly helping for-profit businesses does not apply to an Alaska Native Regional Corporation created under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act if the corporation is set up as a for-profit but is doing nonprofit activities.

Title 42, §12584

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(a)In general

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)Regional Corporation

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.

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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.

§12584 Ineligible Service Categories

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Title 42, §12584

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