Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73

§1475 Travel expenses

Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 18— - UNITED STATES INFORMATION AND EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMS › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER VII— - ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE › § 1475

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

When Congress provides money in a fiscal year to the Secretary or any federal agency to pay for travel outside the continental United States — including travel for dependents and moving personal effects, household goods, or automobiles — that money can cover trips that begin in that fiscal year. The travel orders must be issued in that fiscal year, even if the travel finishes in the next fiscal year.

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Title 22, §1475

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Appropriated funds made available for any fiscal year to the Secretary or any Government agency, to carry out the provisions of this chapter, for expenses in connection with travel of personnel outside the continental United States, including travel of dependents and transportation of personal effects, household goods, or automobiles of such personnel, shall be available for all such expenses in connection with travel or transportation which begins in that fiscal year pursuant to travel orders issued in that year, notwithstanding the fact that such travel or transportation may not be completed until the following fiscal year.

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22 U.S.C. § 1475

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73