Public Law 119-73 (01/23/2026)

15 U.S.C. § 190

Discussions in commercial reports of partisan questions

No part of the consular and other commercial reports of the Department of Commerce, including circular letters to chambers of commerce, discussing partisan political, religious, or moral questions shall be published.

Feb. 25, 1885, ch. 15023 Stat. 324Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, § 1032 Stat. 829Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 137 Stat. 736(, ; , ; , .)

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Act , substituted “Department of Commerce” for “Department of Commerce and Labor”.

Transfer of Functions

Act , transferred Bureau of Statistics from Treasury Department to Department of Commerce and Labor.