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I. Home State Products
You may accept tangible products that are manufactured, produced, or grown in your home state.[74] These products must be intended to promote your state, and be for display or distribution to visitors in your office.[75] The home state products should be of nominal value, less than $10, to each recipient. Home state products that are more than nominal value may be displayed in a public area of your office.
[74] House Rule 25, cl. 5(a)(3)(V). Home state products can be manufactured, produced, or grown anywhere in your state, not just your district. This provision does not include items that are merely distributed in your state, but are manufactured, produced, or grown elsewhere.
[75] The Committee understands Members and staff may occasionally avail themselves of individually packaged home state products. The home state product exception does not prohibit occasional use, but individually packaged home state products must be intended for, and actually distributed to, visitors to your office.
Home state products may not be traded between offices, including for intern or staff labor to assist with projects.
Example (Permissible). Your state is known for growing peanuts. A peanut farmer in your state sends your office three large boxes of single serving sized peanuts. You may accept those peanuts and place them in your office reception area for visitors to take.
Example (Impermissible). That same peanut farmer sends you a large tin of peanuts intended just for your consumption. You may not accept the peanuts as a home state product, but you may be able to accept them under a different exception to the Gift Rule.
Example (Permissible). An aerospace company makes rocket engines in your state. They send you a scale model of one of the rocket engines. You may accept the scale model and place it in your office reception area for visitors to see.
Example (Permissible). The holidays are approaching, and a local tree farmer offers to send you a Christmas tree. You may accept the tree and put it on display in your office reception area for visitors to see.
Example (Permissible). Your state invested heavily in its wine- producing regions and a local winery would like to send you six bottles of wine for display. You may accept the bottles and put them on display in your office reception area. Please contact the Office of General Counsel at 202-225-9700 for guidance about providing alcohol on House grounds.
Example (Permissible). A soda manufacturer has a bottling plant in your state and offers you single-serving cans of the various sodas it bottles at its plant. You may accept the cans of soda.
Example (Additional Action Required). A well-known ice cream producer is in your state. The company offers to provide you with single- serving sized ice cream cups and a freezer to keep them in. You may accept the ice cream as a home state product. You may also accept the freezer on loan from the company. See Artwork and Other Gifts of Unusual Nature on Loan to the House for the requirements of the loan agreement.
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