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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73

§2385a Unified personnel system

Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 32— - FOREIGN ASSISTANCE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS › Part Part II— - Administrative Provisions › § 2385a

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

By May 1, 1979, the President must send to Congress and publish in the Federal Register rules to set up one personnel system for all employees of the agency that mainly runs part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.). While making the rules, the President must keep the relevant Congressional committees informed and meet with them regularly. The rules cannot take effect until 90 days after they are sent so Congress can review them. If either House passes a resolution in that 90-day period saying it disapproves, the rules do not take effect. Once they do take effect, the rules have the force of law and apply to that agency’s staff, overriding conflicting laws unless a law specifically says it overrides these rules.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §2385a

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(a)Not later than May 1, 1979, the President shall submit to the Congress, and publish in the Federal Register, regulations establishing a unified personnel system for all employees of the agency primarily responsible for administering part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 [22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.]. In preparing such regulations, the President shall keep the appropriate committees of the Congress fully and currently informed, and shall consult with them on a regular basis, concerning the nature of the unified personnel system to be established.
(b)The regulations submitted to the Congress pursuant to subsection (a)—
(1)may not become effective until after the end of the 90-day period beginning on the date of such submission in order to provide the appropriate committees of the Congress an opportunity to review them; and
(2)shall not become effective then if, during such 90-day period, either House of Congress adopts a resolution stating in substance that it disapproves the personnel system proposed to be established by the regulations.
(c)Regulations which take effect pursuant to this section shall have the force and effect of law and shall apply with respect to the personnel of the agency primarily responsible for administering part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 [22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.], notwithstanding and 11 So in original. Probably should be “any”. inconsistent provision of law unless that provision of law specifically states that it supersedes regulations issued under this section.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (c), is Pub. L. 87–195, Sept. 4, 1961, 75 Stat. 424. Part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 is classified generally to subchapter I (§ 2151 et seq.) of this chapter. For provisions deeming references to subchapter I to include parts IV (§ 2346 et seq.), VI (§ 2348 et seq.), and VIII (§ 2349aa et seq.) of subchapter II of this chapter, see section 202(b) of Pub. L. 92–226, set out as a note under section 2346 of this title, and section 2348c and 2349aa–5 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 2151 of this title and Tables. Codification Section enacted as part of the International Development and Food Assistance Act of 1978, and not as part of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 which comprises this chapter.

Amendments

1979—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 96–53 substituted “May 1” for “March 15”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1979 Amendment Pub. L. 96–53, title V, § 503(b), Aug. 14, 1979, 93 Stat. 378, provided that: “The amendment made by subsection (a) [amending this section] shall be effective as of March 15, 1979.”

Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1978, see section 605 of Pub. L. 95–424, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1978 Amendment note under section 2151 of this title.

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Citation

22 U.S.C. § 2385a

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73