HB 1388: Things You Can’t Do While Volunteering
For those that haven’t read HB 1388, here’s a list of things that the people who are lucky enough to participate in these corps cannot do…by law.
Before I list them, please note that this makes me angry…I think I said on Twitter that I would like to punch Obama in the face for this. I am sticking to that.
Mr. Obama, you are a fascist idiot. I would like to punch you in the face for trying this crap in my country. That is all…for now.
Things You Can’t Do
H.Amdt 49 to H.R. 1388 Prohibits Organizations From Influencing… Legislation, Protesting or Petitioning.
SEC. 1304. PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES AND INELIGIBLE ORGANIZATIONS.
Section 125 (42 U.S.C. 12575) is amended to read as follows: `SEC. 125. PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES AND INELIGIBLE ORGANIZATIONS.
`(a) Prohibited Activities- A participant in an approved national service position under this subtitle may not engage in the following activities:
`(1) Attempting to influence legislation.
`(2) Organizing or engaging in protests, petitions, boycotts, or strikes.
`(3) Assisting, promoting, or deterring union organizing.
`(4) Impairing existing contracts for services or collective bargaining agreements.
`(5) Engaging in partisan political activities, or other activities designed to influence the outcome of an election to any public office.
`(6) Participating in, or endorsing, events or activities that are likely to include advocacy for or against political parties, political platforms, political candidates, proposed legislation, or elected officials.
`(7) Engaging in religious instruction, conducting worship services, providing instruction as part of a program that includes mandatory religious instruction or worship, constructing or operating facilities devoted to religious instruction or worship, maintaining facilities primarily or inherently devoted to religious instruction or worship, or engaging in any form of religious proselytization.
`(8) Providing a direct benefit to–
`(A) a business organized for profit;
`(B) a labor organization;
`(C) a partisan political organization;
`(D) a nonprofit organization that fails to comply with the restrictions contained in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 except that nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent participants from engaging in advocacy activities undertaken at their own initiative; and
`(E) an organization engaged in the religious activities described in paragraph (7), unless Corporation assistance is not used to support those religious activities.
`(9) Conducting a voter registration drive or using Corporation funds to conduct a voter registration drive.
`(10) Such other activities as the Corporation may prohibit.
`(b) Ineligible Organizations- No assistance provided under this subtitle may be provided to the following types of organizations (including the participation of a participant in an approved national service position under this subtitle in activities conducted by such organizations) or to organizations that are co-located on the same premises as the following organizations:
`(1) Organizations that provide or promote abortion services, including referral for such services.
`(2) For-profit organizations, political parties, labor organizations, or organizations engaged in political or legislative advocacy.
`(3) Organizations that have been indicted for voter fraud.
`(c) Nondisplacement of Employed Workers or Other Volunteers- A participant in an approved national service position under this subtitle may not perform any services or duties or engage in activities which–
`(1) would otherwise be performed by an employed worker as part of his or her assigned duties as an employee or by another volunteer who is not a participant in an approved national service position; or
`(2) will supplant the hiring of employed workers or work of such other volunteers.’.
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3 Responses to “HB 1388: Things You Can’t Do While Volunteering”
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March 22nd, 2009 at 10:15 pm
First off if you look at the bill title it is an amendment to the original house bill which means someone in the Congress added this to the house bill…..not Obama.
`(a) Prohibited Activities- A participant in an approved national service position under this subtitle may not engage in the following activities:
You don’t like it? Don’t JOIN.
It is your choice to JOIN. If you don’t like it, don’t join. You are not being FORCED to join. If you want to stand on the corner and call them devil worshippers, you are free to do so, bc unlike what you want to spread here, Obama is not harming your right to religious expression. If you are going to join a government organization and take government money you have to follow government rules. You don’t like it, don’t join.
March 22nd, 2009 at 10:23 pm
Fine. I’m ready to secede from the union, in that case. Bring on the gold standard and the guns and Bibles! WooHoo!
Screw Obama. If you can’t see what the black and white text says, I’m sorry.
I’m not letting them take my children from the Lord.
March 22nd, 2009 at 11:22 pm
Do I really need to read 200 plus pages to see that none of this is mandatory?
Look we can end this debate easily. Just show me how I personally will be forced to join this. If you can show me how I will be FORCED to do this, you win the point. If you can’t show me, you don’t.
Easy enough.