---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 U.S.C. § 1355"
title: "31"
title_heading: "Money and Finance"
number: "1355"
heading: "Prohibition on use of funds for portraits"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/31/1355"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — The Budget Process"
  - "Chapter 13 — Appropriations"
  - "Subchapter III — Limitations, Exceptions, and Penalties"
---

# §1355. Prohibition on use of funds for portraits

- (a) No funds appropriated or otherwise made available to the Federal Government may be used to pay for the painting of a portrait of an officer or employee of the Federal Government, including the President, the Vice President, a Member of Congress, the head of an executive [agency](/usc/31/1101.md?p=1), or the head of an office of the legislative branch.
- (b) In this section—
  - (1) the term “executive [agency](/usc/31/1101.md?p=1)” has the meaning given the term in [section 133 of title 41](/usc/41/133.md); and
  - (2) the term “Member of Congress” includes a Delegate or Resident Commissioner to Congress.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 115–158, § 2(a), Mar. 27, 2018, 132 Stat. 1242.)