22 U.S.C. § 2708a: Award of Thomas Jefferson…

Summary

The President may give the Thomas Jefferson Star for Foreign Service to a Foreign Service member or another U.S. civilian employee who was wounded, hurt, or became ill while working overseas or traveling on official business. It covers three situations: while doing official duties, while on the grounds of a U.S. mission abroad, or because the person was a U.S. Government employee. The Secretary must make the rules to find and pick nominees. If a selected person dies first, the President can give the star to the family or a chosen representative. The Secretary decides the star’s design and it cannot include money. Costs to give the award may be paid from the personnel funds available at the time in the agency that employed the person when the injury or illness happened.

Title 22, §2708a

Foreign Relations and Intercourse, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Authority to award

The President, upon the recommendation of the Secretary, may award a Thomas Jefferson Star for Foreign Service to any member of the Foreign Service or any other civilian employee of the Government of the United States who, while employed at, or assigned permanently or temporarily to, an official mission overseas or while traveling abroad on official business, incurred a wound or other injury or an illness (whether or not the wound, other injury, or illness resulted in death)—

(1)as the person was performing official duties;

(2)as the person was on the premises of a United States mission abroad; or

(3)by reason of the person’s status as a United States Government employee.

(b)Selection criteria

The Secretary shall prescribe the procedures for identifying and considering persons eligible for award of a Thomas Jefferson Star for Foreign Service and for selecting the persons to be recommended for the award.

(c)Award in the event of death

If a person selected for award of a Thomas Jefferson Star for Foreign Service dies before being presented the award, the award may be made and the star presented to the person’s family or to the person’s representative, as designated by the President.

(d)Form of award

The Secretary shall prescribe the design of the Thomas Jefferson Star for Foreign Service. The award may not include a stipend or any other cash payment.

(e)Funding

Any expenses incurred in awarding a person a Thomas Jefferson Star for Foreign Service may be paid out of appropriations available at the time of the award for personnel of the department or agency of the United States Government in which the person was employed when the person incurred the wound, injury, or illness upon which the award is based.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2002—Pub. L. 107–228 substituted “Thomas Jefferson Star for Foreign Service” for “Foreign Service star” in section catchline and wherever appearing in text.

§2708a Award of Thomas Jefferson Star for Foreign Service

Summary

Title 22, §2708a

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

Citations & Metadata