---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 3056b"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "3056b"
heading: "Participants not Federal employees"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/3056b"
units:
  - "Chapter 35 — Programs for Older Americans"
  - "Subchapter IX — Community Service Senior Opportunities"
---

# §3056b. Participants not Federal employees

- (a) **Inapplicability of certain provisions covering Federal employees—** [Eligible individuals](/usc/42/3056p.md?p=a-3-A) who are participants in any [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) funded under this subchapter shall not be considered to be Federal employees as a result of such participation and shall not be subject to part III of title 5.
- (b) **Workers’ compensation—** No grant or subgrant shall be made and no contract or subcontract shall be entered into under this subchapter with an entity who is, or whose employees are, under [State](/usc/42/3002.md?p=51) law, exempted from operation of the [State](/usc/42/3002.md?p=51) workers’ compensation law, generally applicable to employees, unless the entity shall undertake to provide either through insurance by a recognized carrier or by self-insurance, as authorized by [State](/usc/42/3002.md?p=51) law, that the persons employed under the grant, subgrant, contract, or subcontract shall enjoy workers’ compensation coverage equal to that provided by law for covered employment.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–73, title V, § 504, as added Pub. L. 109–365, title V, § 501, Oct. 17, 2006, 120 Stat. 2575.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 3056b, Pub. L. 89–73, title V, § 504, as added Pub. L. 106–501, title V, § 501, Nov. 13, 2000, 114 Stat. 2276, related to participants not having status as Federal employees and contractual requirement of workmen’s compensation, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 109–365.

Another prior section 3056b, Pub. L. 89–73, title V, § 504, formerly title IX, § 904, as added Pub. L. 94–135, title I, § 113(a), Nov. 28, 1975, 89 Stat. 723; renumbered title V, § 504, and amended Pub. L. 95–478, title I, § 105(a), title V, § 503(d), Oct. 18, 1978, 92 Stat. 1547, 1559, related to participants not having status as Federal employees and contractual requirement of workmen’s compensation, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 106–501.

Another prior section 504 of Pub. L. 89–73 was classified to section 3041c of this title, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 95–478.