---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 12584"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "12584"
heading: "Ineligible service categories"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/12584"
units:
  - "Chapter 129 — National and Community Service"
  - "Subchapter I — National and Community Service State Grant Program"
  - "Division C — National Service Trust Program"
  - "Part II — Application and Approval Process"
---

# §12584. Ineligible service categories

- (a) **In general—** Except as provided in [subsection (b)](#b), an application submitted to the [Corporation](/usc/42/2297h.md?p=2) under [section 12582 of this title](/usc/42/12582.md) shall include an assurance by the applicant that any national service [program](/usc/42/12626.md?p=8) carried out using assistance provided under [section 12571 of this title](/usc/42/12571.md) and any approved national service position provided to an applicant will not be used to perform service that provides a direct benefit to any—
  - (1) business organized for profit;
  - (2) labor union;
  - (3) partisan political organization;
  - (4) organization engaged in religious activities, unless such service does not involve the use of assistance provided under [section 12571 of this title](/usc/42/12571.md) or participants—
    - (A) to give religious instruction;
    - (B) to conduct worship services;
    - (C) to provide instruction as part of a [program](/usc/42/12626.md?p=8) that includes mandatory religious education or worship;
    - (D) to construct or operate facilities devoted to religious instruction or worship or to maintain facilities primarily or inherently devoted to religious instruction or worship; or
    - (E) to engage in any form of proselytization; or
  - (5) [nonprofit](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=3) organization that fails to comply with the restrictions contained in [section 501(c) of title 26](/usc/26/501.md?p=c), except that nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent participants from engaging in advocacy activities undertaken at their own initiative.
- (b) **Regional Corporation—** The requirement of [subsection (a)](#a) relating to an assurance regarding direct benefits to businesses organized for profit shall not apply with respect to a Regional [Corporation](/usc/42/2297h.md?p=2), as defined in section 3(g) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act ([43 U.S.C. 1602(g)](/usc/43/1602.md?p=g)), that is established in accordance with such Act [[43 U.S.C. 1601](/usc/43/1601.md) et seq.] as a for-profit [corporation](/usc/42/2297h.md?p=2) but that is engaging in [nonprofit](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=3) activities.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–610, title I, § 132, as added Pub. L. 103–82, title I, § 101(b), Sept. 21, 1993, 107 Stat. 805.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, referred to in subsec. (b), is Pub. L. 92–203, Dec. 18, 1971, 85 Stat. 688, which is classified generally to chapter 33 (§ 1601 et seq.) of Title 43, Public Lands. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1601 of Title 43 and Tables.

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 132 of Pub. L. 101–610 was renumbered section 199L and classified to section 12655k of this title, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 103–82, § 101(e)(8)(A).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1993, see section 123 of Pub. L. 103–82, set out as an Effective Date of 1993 Amendment note under section 1701 of Title 16, Conservation.