§2694 Limitation on Purchase of Gifts for Foreign Individuals; Report to Speaker of the House and Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate

Summary

After September 30, 1977, appropriated federal money cannot be used to buy any physical gift for a foreign person that is worth more than "minimal value" (see 5 U.S.C. 7342(a)(5)) unless Congress approves it. The only money allowed for such gifts is from the State Department's "Emergencies in the Diplomatic and Consular Service" account. Starting October 1, 1977, the Secretary of State must each year send the Speaker of the House and the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a report. The report must list gifts over minimal value given to foreign individuals in the previous fiscal year that were bought with appropriated funds, and other such gifts the U.S. government gave that were not bought with appropriated funds.