22 U.S.C. § 2394–1 — Notification of program changes

submitted 49 years ago by Pub. L. 87-195 to r/title-22-FOREIGN-RELATIONS-AND-INTERCOURSE · 447 words · no verdicts yet

in plain englishAI-generated · not legal advice

Certain funds may not be obligated for activities, programs, projects, materials, countries, or operations beyond what Congress was told without 15 days’ advance notice to specified committees. The section sets notice details and exceptions for smaller or limited reprogramming.

(a) Except for the listed subchapter I programs, disaster relief and rehabilitation, and the Arms Export Control Act, funds appropriated for this chapter may not be obligated for an activity, program, project, type of material assistance, country, or other operation that was not justified to Congress, or for more than the amount justified, unless the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Appropriations Committee of each House receive notice 15 days before the obligation. If a proposed reprogramming is over $1,000,000 and the total proposed amount for a country in the fiscal year would exceed by more than $5,000,000 the amount for that country in the section 2413(a) report, the notice must state (1) the proposed obligation’s nature and purpose and (2) when possible, the country for which the money otherwise would have been obligated. (b) Notice is not required for (1) part I of subchapter I funds for an activity, program, or project when the fiscal-year obligation would not exceed the congressional justification by more than 10 percent; or (2) less than $25,000 for a country under part VIII of subchapter I or part V of subchapter II when a program under that part for that fiscal year was justified to Congress. (c) The President must notify the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair and House Foreign Affairs Committee chair about reprogramming in the International Affairs Budget Function for which appropriations authorizations are within those committees’ jurisdiction, to the same extent and under the same conditions as notices to Appropriations Committees. These requirements add to, and do not replace, other notice requirements.

the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

(a) Covered programs; content of notifications

None of the funds appropriated to carry out the purposes of this chapter (except for programs under subpart III or subpart IV of part II of subchapter I of this chapter, part V of subchapter I of this chapter, and programs of disaster relief and rehabilitation) or the Arms Export Control Act [22 U.S.C. 2751 et seq.] may be obligated for any activities, programs, projects, types of materiel assistance, countries, or other operations not justified, or in excess of the amount justified, to the Congress for obligation under this chapter or the Arms Export Control Act for any fiscal year unless the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Appropriations of each House of the Congress are notified fifteen days in advance of such obligation. Whenever a proposed reprograming exceeds $1,000,000 and the total amount proposed for obligation for a country under this chapter in a fiscal year exceeds by more than $5,000,000 the amount specified for that country in the report required by section 2413(a) of this title, notifications of such proposed reprogramings shall specify—

(1)

the nature and purpose of such proposed obligation, and

(2)

to the extent possible at the time of the proposed obligation, the country for which such funds would otherwise have been obligated.

(b) Exceptions

The notification requirement of this section does not apply to the reprogramming—

(1)

of funds to be used for an activity, program, or project under part I of subchapter I of this chapter if the amounts to be obligated for that activity, program, or project for that fiscal year do not exceed by more than 10 percent the amount justified to the Congress for that activity, program, or project for that fiscal year; or

(2)

of less than $25,000 to be used under part VIII of subchapter I of this chapter, or under part V of subchapter II of this chapter, for a country for which a program under that part for that fiscal year was justified to the Congress.

The President shall notify the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives concerning any reprogramming of funds in the International Affairs Budget Function, the authorizations of appropriations for which are in their respective jurisdictions, to the same degree and with the same conditions as the President notifies the Committees on Appropriations. The requirements of this subsection are in addition to, and not in lieu of, other notification requirements.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 87–195, pt. III, § 634A, formerly § 671, as added Pub. L. 95–88, title I, § 130, Aug. 3, 1977, 91 Stat. 543; renumbered § 634A, Pub. L. 95–424, title V, § 502(b), Oct. 6, 1978, 92 Stat. 959; amended Pub. L. 97–113, title VII, § 704, Dec. 29, 1981, 95 Stat. 1544; Pub. L. 99–83, title XII, § 1209(a), Aug. 8, 1985, 99 Stat. 278; Pub. L. 103–437, § 9(a)(6), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4588.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1977Enacted · Pub. L. 87-195 · 91 Stat. 543
1978Amended · Pub. L. 95-424 · 92 Stat. 959
1981Amended · Pub. L. 97-113 · 95 Stat. 1544
1985Amended · Pub. L. 99-83 · 99 Stat. 278
1994Amended · Pub. L. 103-437 · 108 Stat. 4588

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 87-195 on 1977-08-03.

all 0 arguments · sorted by: best

no arguments yet — make the first case