---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 30105"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "30105"
heading: "Restriction on lobbying activities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/30105"
units:
  - "Subtitle VI — Motor Vehicle and Driver Programs"
  - "Part A — General"
  - "Chapter 301 — Motor Vehicle Safety"
  - "Subchapter I — General"
---

# §30105. Restriction on lobbying activities

- (a) **In General.—** No funds appropriated to the Secretary for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration shall be available for any activity specifically designed to urge a [State](/usc/49/30102.md?p=a-12) or local legislator to favor or oppose the adoption of any specific legislative proposal pending before any [State](/usc/49/30102.md?p=a-12) or local legislative body.
- (b) **Appearance as Witness Not Barred.—** [Subsection (a)](#a) does not prohibit officers or [employees](/usc/49/31301.md?p=7) of the [United States](/usc/49/31301.md?p=15) from testifying before any [State](/usc/49/30102.md?p=a-12) or local legislative body in response to the invitation of any member of that legislative body or a [State](/usc/49/30102.md?p=a-12) executive office.

## Source credit

(Added and amended Pub. L. 105–178, title VII, § 7104(a), (c), June 9, 1998, 112 Stat. 466; Pub. L. 105–206, title IX, § 9012(a), July 22, 1998, 112 Stat. 864.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1998—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 105–178, § 7104(c), as added by Pub. L. 105–206, inserted “for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration” after “Secretary”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1998 Amendment

Title IX of Pub. L. 105–206 effective simultaneously with enactment of Pub. L. 105–178 and to be treated as included in Pub. L. 105–178 at time of enactment, and provisions of Pub. L. 105–178, as in effect on day before July 22, 1998, that are amended by title IX of Pub. L. 105–206 to be treated as not enacted, see section 9016 of Pub. L. 105–206, set out as a note under section 101 of Title 23, Highways.