---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 486"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "486"
heading: "Limitation of liability"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/486"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter VIII — Coordination with Non-Federal Entities; Inspector General; United States Secret Service; Coast Guard; General Provisions"
  - "Part I — Information Sharing"
---

# §486. Limitation of liability


A person who has completed a security awareness training course approved by or operated under a cooperative agreement with the [Department](/usc/6/101.md?p=5) of [Homeland](/usc/6/101.md?p=1) Security using [funds](/usc/6/677a.md?p=5) made available in fiscal year 2006 and thereafter or in any prior appropriations Acts, who is enrolled in a program recognized or acknowledged by an Information Sharing and Analysis [Center](/usc/6/681.md?p=1), and who reports a situation, activity or [incident](/usc/6/677a.md?p=6) pursuant to that program to an appropriate authority, shall not be liable for damages in any action brought in a Federal or [State](/usc/6/101.md?p=17) court which result from any act or omission unless such person is guilty of gross negligence or willful misconduct.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–90, title V, § 541, Oct. 18, 2005, 119 Stat. 2089.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2006, and not as part of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 which comprises this chapter.