---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 1611"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "1611"
heading: "Exempt organizations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/1611"
units:
  - "Chapter 26 — Disclosure of Lobbying Activities"
---

# §1611. Exempt organizations


An [organization](/usc/2/1602.md?p=13) described in [section 501(c)(4) of title 26](/usc/26/501.md?p=c-4) which engages in [lobbying activities](/usc/2/1602.md?p=7) shall not be eligible for the receipt of Federal funds constituting an award, grant, or loan.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 104–65, § 18, Dec. 19, 1995, 109 Stat. 703; Pub. L. 104–99, title I, § 129(a), Jan. 26, 1996, 110 Stat. 34.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1996—Pub. L. 104–99 substituted “award, grant, or loan” for “award, grant, contract, loan, or any other form”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1996 Amendment

Pub. L. 104–99, title I, § 129(b), Jan. 26, 1996, 110 Stat. 34, provided that: “The amendment made by subsection (a) [amending this section] shall take effect as if included in the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 [Pub. L. 104–65] on the date of the enactment of such Act [Dec. 19, 1995].”

[For provision that notwithstanding section 106 of Pub. L. 104–99 [110 Stat. 27], section 129 of Pub. L. 104–99 [see above] to remain in effect as if enacted as part of Pub. L. 104–134, see section 21103 of Pub. L. 104–134, set out as a note following note captioned 501 First Street SE., District of Columbia; Disposal of Real Property, under section 2001 of this title].

### Effective Date

Section effective Jan. 1, 1996, see section 24 of Pub. L. 104–65, set out as a note under section 1601 of this title.