---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 924a"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "924a"
heading: "Art. 124a. Bribery"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/924a"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 47 — Uniform Code of Military Justice"
  - "Subchapter X — Punitive Articles"
---

# §924a. Art. 124a. Bribery

- (a) **Asking, Accepting, or Receiving Thing of Value.—** Any [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) subject to this chapter—
  - (1) who occupies an official position or who has official duties; and
  - (2) who wrongfully asks, accepts, or receives a thing of value with the intent to have the [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2)’s decision or action influenced with respect to an official matter in which the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) is interested;

  shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

- (b) **Promising, Offering, or Giving Thing of Value.—** Any [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) subject to this chapter who wrongfully promises, offers, or gives a thing of value to another [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2), who occupies an official position or who has official duties, with the intent to influence the decision or action of the other [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) with respect to an official matter in which the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) is interested, shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 114–328, div. E, title LX, § 5437, Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2952.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective on Jan. 1, 2019, as designated by the President, with implementing regulations and provisions relating to applicability to various situations, see section 5542 of Pub. L. 114–328 and Ex. Ord. No. 13825, set out as notes under section 801 of this title.