---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 2944"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
number: "2944"
heading: "Retired service members and dependents serving on advisory committees"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/2944"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 29 — Coast Guard Family Support, Child Care, and Housing"
  - "Subchapter III — Housing"
---

# §2944. Retired service members and dependents serving on advisory committees


A committee that—

- (1) advises or assists the Coast Guard with respect to a function that affects a member of the Coast Guard or a dependent of such a member; and
- (2) includes in its membership a retired Coast Guard member or a dependent of such a retired member;

shall not be considered an advisory committee under [chapter 10](/usc/5/chptI/ch10.md) of title 5 solely because of such membership.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 113–281, title II, § 218(a), Dec. 18, 2014, 128 Stat. 3036, § 680; renumbered § 2944, Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 117(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4230; amended Pub. L. 117–286, § 4(a)(61), Dec. 27, 2022, 136 Stat. 4312.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2022—Pub. L. 117–286 substituted “chapter 10 of title 5” for “the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.)” in concluding provisions.

2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 680 of this title as this section.