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Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-110

§2734b Report on Diversity Recruitment, Employment, Retention, and Promotion

Title 22 › CHAPTER 38 — DEPARTMENT OF STATE › § 2734b

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must oversee hiring, keeping, and promoting employees from groups that are usually underrepresented. The Department must run recruiting programs to find and keep qualified candidates from many kinds of schools and expand outreach at minority-serving institutions. Within 180 days after December 16, 2016, and every four years after, the Secretary must send Congress a report describing these efforts and their results for all American direct hires and personal-service contractors, especially Foreign Service staff and other underrepresented minority groups.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §2734b

Foreign Relations and Intercourse, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)In general
The Secretary should provide oversight to the employment, retention, and promotion of traditionally underrepresented minority groups.
(b)Additional recruitment and outreach required
The Department should conduct recruitment activities that—
(1)develop and implement effective mechanisms to ensure that the Department is able effectively to recruit and retain highly qualified candidates from a wide diversity of institutions; and
(2)improve and expand recruitment and outreach programs at minority-serving institutions.
(c)Report
Not later than 180 days after December 16, 2016, and quadrennially thereafter, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a comprehensive report that describes the efforts, consistent with existing law, including procedures, effects, and results of the Department since the period covered by the prior such report, to promote equal opportunity and inclusion for all American employees in direct hire and personal service contractors status, particularly employees of the Foreign Service, including equal opportunity for all traditionally underrepresented minority groups.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Definitions For definitions of “Secretary”, “Department”, and “Foreign Service” as used in this section, see section 2 of Pub. L. 114–323, set out as a note under section 2651 of this title.

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Citation

22 U.S.C. § 2734b

Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110