Appendix A to Part 87 - Notice or Announcement of Award Opportunities
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Appendix A to Part 87 - Notice or Announcement of Award
Opportunities
(a) Faith-based organizations may apply for this award on the
same basis as any other organization, as set forth at and, subject
to the protections and requirements of this part and 42 U.S.C.
2000bb et seq., the Department will not, in the selection of
recipients, discriminate against an organization on the basis of
the organization's religious character, affiliation, or
exercise.
(b) A faith-based organization that participates in this program
will retain its independence from the Government and may continue
to carry out its mission consistent with religious freedom,
nondiscrimination, and conscience protections in Federal law,
including the Free Speech and Free Exercise Clauses of the First
Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the Religious Freedom
Restoration Act (42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seq.), the Coats-Snowe
Amendment (42 U.S.C. 238n), Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of
1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000e-1(a) and 2000e-2(e)), the Americans with
Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. 12113(d)(2), section 1553 of the
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. 18113), the
Weldon Amendment (e.g., Further Consolidated Appropriations Act,
2020, Public Law 116-94, 133 Stat. 2534, 2607, div. A, sec. 507(d)
(Dec. 20, 2019)), or any related or similar Federal laws or
regulations. Religious accommodations may also be sought under many
of these religious freedom and conscience protection laws.
(c) A faith-based organization may not use direct financial
assistance from the Department to engage in any explicitly
religious activities (including activities that involve overt
religious content such as worship, religious instruction, or
proselytization). Such an organization also may not, in providing
services funded by the Department, discriminate against a program
beneficiary or prospective program beneficiary on the basis of
religion, a religious belief, a refusal to hold a religious belief,
or a refusal to attend or participate in a religious practice.
[85 FR 82147, Dec. 17, 2020]