Reading Room Document

Applicability of the Hatch Act to the Chairman of the Native Hawaiians Study Commission

The Native Hawaiians Study Commission is an "Executive agency" whose employees are covered by the Hatch Act, even though its functions are by statute confined to advising Congress. The part-time Chairman of the Commission is covered by the Hatch Act on the days she is paid to perform government services. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/23046/download.

June 3, 1982