Volume 56 · 986
Public Law 77–620
To amend the Act entitled “An Act to prevent pernicious political activities”, approved August 2, 1939, as amended, with respect to its application to officers and employees of educational, religious, eleemosynary, philanthropic, and cultural institutions, establishments, and agencies, commonly known as the Hatch Act.
Approved October 24, 1942
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Act entitled “An Act to prevent pernicious political activities”, approved August 2, 1939, as amended, with respect to its application to officers and employees of educational, religious, eleemosynary, philanthropic, and cultural institutions, establishments, and agencies, commonly known as the Hatch Act.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Act entitled “An Act to prevent pernicious political activities”, approved August 2, 1939, as amended, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section:
“Sec. 21.
Nothing in sections 2, 9 (a) or 9 (b), or 12 of this Act shall be deemed to prohibit or to make unlawful the doing of any act by any officer or employee of any educational or research institution, establishment, agency, or system which is supported in whole or in part by any State or political subdivision thereof, or by the District of Columbia or by any Territory or Territorial possession of the United States; or by any recognized religious, philanthropic, or cultural organization.”
Approved, October 24, 1942.