OMB Watch - Resource Center: New Nonprofit Gag Provision in House GSE Bill: "Resource Center: New Nonprofit Gag Provision in House GSE Bill
RESTRICTIONS ON AFFILIATIONS, ADVOCACY, AND NONPARTISAN VOTER PARTICIPATION FOR GRANTEES MUST BE REMOVED
SIMILAR TO THE 1995 ISTOOK ANTI-ADVOCACY AMENDMENT
A bill that will likely reach the House floor by Oct. 28 has a provision that would disqualify nonprofits from receiving money from a new affordable housing fund if they have engaged in voter registration and other nonpartisan voter participation activities or lobbying for certain groups within 12 months of applying for the money. They would also be barred from these activities during the grant period, even if non-federal funds were used to pay for it. More specifically, the bill would sweepingly restrict any group that affiliates with an organization that engages in such activities from applying for funds under the affordable housing fund."
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