22 U.S.C. § 6552 — Application of certain laws

Page 1832 TITLE 22—FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE § 6552 37, which amended sections 830, 831, and 832, respec- tively, of the Foreign Service Act of 1980, by adding subsecs. (f), (g), and (f), respectively, to those sections which are classified to sections 4069a(f), 4069b(g), and 4069c(f) of this title. § 6552. Application of certain laws (a) Application to functions of Department of State Section 1461 of this title, section 1461–1 of this title, and section 1461–1a of this title shall not apply to public affairs and other information dissemination functions of the Secretary of State as carried out prior to any transfer of functions pursuant to this chapter. (b) Application to functions transferred to De- partment of State Section 1461 of this title, section 1461–1 of this title, and section 1461–1a of this title shall apply only to public diplomacy programs of the Direc- tor of the United States Information Agency as carried out prior to any transfer of functions pursuant to this chapter to the same extent that such programs were covered by these provisions prior to such transfer. (c) Limitation on use of funds (1) Except as provided in section 1461 of this title and section 1461–1a of this title, funds spe- cifically authorized to be appropriated for such public diplomacy programs, identified as public diplomacy funds in any Congressional Presen- tation Document described in subsection (e), or reprogrammed for public diplomacy purposes, shall not be used to influence public opinion in the United States, and no program material pre- pared using such funds shall be distributed or disseminated in the United States. (2) CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in paragraph (1) may be construed (A) to interfere with the inte- gration of administrative resources between public diplomacy and other functions of the De- partment of State or to prevent the occasional performance of functions other than public di- plomacy by officials or employees of the Depart- ment of State who are primarily assigned to public diplomacy, provided there is no substan- tial resulting diminution in the amount of re- sources devoted to public diplomacy below the amounts described in paragraph (1), or (B) to su- persede reprogramming procedures. (d) Reporting requirements The report submitted pursuant to section 6601(f) of this title shall include a detailed state- ment of the manner in which the special mission of public diplomacy carried out by USIA prior to the transfer of functions under this chapter shall be preserved within the Department of State, including the planned duties and respon- sibilities of any new bureaus that will perform such public diplomacy functions. Such report shall also include the best available estimates of— (1) the amounts expended by the Department of State for public affairs programs during fis- cal year 1998, and on the personnel and support costs for such programs; (2) the amounts expended by USIA for its public diplomacy programs during fiscal year 1998, and on the personnel and support costs for such programs; and (3) the amounts, including funds to be trans- ferred from USIA and funds appropriated to the Department, that will be allocated for the programs described in paragraphs (1) and (2), respectively, during the fiscal year in which the transfer of functions from USIA to the De- partment occurs. (e) Congressional Presentation Document The Department of State’s Congressional Presentation Document for fiscal year 2000 and each fiscal year thereafter shall include— (1) the aggregated amounts that the Depart- ment will spend on such public diplomacy pro- grams and on costs of personnel for such pro- grams, and a detailed description of the goals and purposes for which such funds shall be ex- pended; and (2) the amount of funds allocated to and the positions authorized for such public diplomacy programs, including bureaus to be created upon the transfer of functions from USIA to the Department. (Pub. L. 105–277, div. G, subdiv. A, title XIII, § 1333, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–785; Pub. L. 106–113, div. B, § 1000(a)(7) [div. A, title III, § 304], Nov. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1536, 1501A–434.) Editorial Notes REFERENCES IN TEXT This chapter, referred to in subsecs. (a), (b), and (d), was in the original ‘‘this subdivision’’, meaning subdiv. A of div. G of Pub. L. 105–277, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–765, known as the Foreign Affairs Agencies Con- solidation Act of 1998. For complete classification of this subdivision to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 6501 of this title and Tables. AMENDMENTS 1999—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 106–113 designated existing provisions as par. (1), inserted ‘‘, identified as public di- plomacy funds in any Congressional Presentation Doc- ument described in subsection (e), or reprogrammed for public diplomacy purposes,’’ after ‘‘diplomacy pro- grams’’, and added par. (2). § 6553. Continuation of United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy The United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, established under section 1469 of this title and section 8 of Reorganization Plan Numbered 2 of 1977, shall continue to exist and operate under such provisions of law. (Pub. L. 105–277, div. G, subdiv. A, title XIII, § 1334, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–786; Pub. L. 106–113, div. B, § 1000(a)(7) [div. A, title IV, § 404(a)], Nov. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1536, 1501A–446; Pub. L. 107–77, title IV, § 407(a), Nov. 28, 2001, 115 Stat. 790; Pub. L. 109–108, title IV, § 410, Nov. 22, 2005, 119 Stat. 2327; Pub. L. 110–21, § 1, May 2, 2007, 121 Stat. 87; Pub. L. 111–70, § 1, Oct. 9, 2009, 123 Stat. 2057; Pub. L. 112–239, div. A, title XII, § 1280(d)(1), Jan. 2, 2013, 126 Stat. 2033; Pub. L. 114–323, title VII, § 702(a), Dec. 16, 2016, 130 Stat. 1940; Pub. L. 116–159, div. A, § 168, Oct. 1, 2020, 134 Stat. 723; Pub. L. 117–81, div. E, title LVI, § 5604, Dec. 27, 2021, 135 Stat. 2379.) Editorial Notes REFERENCES IN TEXT Section 8 of Reorganization Plan Numbered 2 of 1977, referred to in text, is set out as a note under section