---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 2086"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "2086"
heading: "Prohibition on industry-sponsored travel"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/2086"
units:
  - "Chapter 47 — Consumer Product Safety"
---

# §2086. Prohibition on industry-sponsored travel


Notwithstanding [section 1353 of title 31](/usc/31/1353.md) and [section 2076(b)(6) of this title](/usc/15/2076.md?p=b-6), no Commissioner or employee of the [Commission](/usc/15/2052.md?p=a-4) shall accept travel, subsistence, or related expenses with respect to attendance by a Commissioner or employee at any meeting or similar function relating to official duties of a Commissioner or an employee, from a [person](/usc/15/7a.md?p=6)—

- (1) seeking official action from, doing business with, or conducting activities regulated by, the [Commission](/usc/15/2052.md?p=a-4); or
- (2) whose interests may be substantially affected by the performance or nonperformance of the Commissioner’s or employee’s official duties.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–573, § 39, as added Pub. L. 110–314, title II, § 206(a), Aug. 14, 2008, 122 Stat. 3044.)