§12634 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

Grant money under this law must not pay for religious teaching, worship services, or trying to convert people. Staff or participants also must not use the funds to help or stop union organizing or to pay for efforts to influence elections for federal, state, or local office. Programs receiving funds must not weaken existing service contracts or union contracts. A program cannot get money only to refer people to federal help or to state programs that are partly paid for by the federal government.

Title 42, §12634

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(a)No assistance made available under a grant under this subchapter shall be used to provide religious instruction, conduct worship services, or engage in any form of proselytization.

(b)Assistance provided under this subchapter shall not be used by program participants and program staff to—

(1)assist, promote, or deter union organizing; or

(2)finance, directly or indirectly, any activity designed to influence the outcome of an election to Federal office or the outcome of an election to a State or local public office.

(c)A program that receives assistance under this subchapter shall not impair existing contracts for services or collective bargaining agreements.

(d)A program may not receive assistance under the national service laws for the sole purpose of referring individuals to Federal assistance programs or State assistance programs funded in part by the Federal Government.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2009—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 111–13 added subsec. (d).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2009 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 111–13 effective Oct. 1, 2009, see section 6101(a) of Pub. L. 111–13, set out as a note under section 4950 of this title.

§12634 Prohibition on Use of Funds