---
kind: "section"
citation: "32 U.S.C. § 329"
title: "32"
title_heading: "National Guard"
number: "329"
heading: "Prohibition on private funding for interstate deployment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/32/329"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Personnel"
---

# §329. Prohibition on private funding for interstate deployment


A member of the [National Guard](/usc/32/101.md?p=3) may not be ordered to cross a border of a State to perform duty (under this title or [title 10](/usc/10.md)) if such duty is paid for with private funds, unless such duty is in response to a major disaster or emergency under section 401 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act ([42 U.S.C. 5170](/usc/42/5170.md)).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 117–81, div. A, title V, § 512(a), Dec. 27, 2021, 135 Stat. 1682.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 329, act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 608, which related to summary courts-martial of National Guard not in Federal service, was repealed by Pub. L. 107–314, div. A, title V, § 512(c)(1), Dec. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 2537.