Speech #1000147898

Section (3)(a) provides for complete coverage of a corporation. partnership or "other private organization" only under two circumstancesneither of which applies to the situation described by the Senator. The first is where assistance is extended to the private organization "as a whole." That would apply where the Federal financial assistance is to bail out a Chrysler or Lockheed Corp.. but not where aid is for a particular designated purpose. So. as the committee report says (p. 17): A grant to a religious organization to enable it to extend assistance to refugees would not be assistance to the religious organization as a whole if that is only one among a number of activities of the organization. The second circumstance that results in organizationwide coverage is where the organization is "principally engaged in the business of providing education. health care. housing. social services or parks and recreation." The principal occupation of a church. or a diocese or a synagogue or another religious organization is by definition "religious." So such an organization would not be covered in its entirety even if it conducts one or more programs in education or health care or social services. Accordingly. a religious organization which receives limited purpose assistance will be covered only as to the "geographically separate" facilityto which the assistance is extended.