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Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-102

§290a Designation of Representatives and Alternates; Compensation; Loyalty Checkup

Title 22 › CHAPTER 7 — INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC. › SUBCHAPTER XX — WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION › § 290a

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The President must pick up to three U.S. delegates, plus as many alternates as the World Health Assembly rules allow, to attend specified Assembly sessions. One of the delegates will be the chief delegate. When the U.S. can name someone to the Executive Board under article 24, the President, with the Senate’s approval, must name a representative and may name one alternate. The representative must be a medical school graduate with at least three years of active work as a physician or surgeon. The representative and alternate may be paid at rates set in sections 3962 or 3963 for the times the President states, but Members of Congress or U.S. officers cannot get that pay. No one may serve until the Director of the Office of Personnel Management completes a loyalty and security check.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §290a

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The President shall designate from time to time to attend a specified session or specified sessions of the World Health Assembly of the Organization not to exceed three delegates of the United States and such number of alternates as he may determine consistent with the rules of procedure of the World Health Assembly. One of the delegates shall be designated as the chief delegate. Whenever the United States becomes entitled to designate a person to serve on the Executive Board of the Organization, under article 24 of the constitution of the Organization, the President shall designate a representative of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and may designate not to exceed one alternate to attend sessions of the Executive Board. Such representative must be a graduate of a recognized medical school and have spent not less than three years in active practice as a physician or surgeon. Such representative and any such alternate shall each be entitled to receive compensation at one of the rates established under section 3962 or 3963 of this title, for such period or periods as the President may specify, except that no Member of the Senate or House of Representatives or officer of the United States who is thus designated shall be entitled to receive such compensation: Provided, That no person shall serve as such representative, delegate, or alternate until such person has been investigated as to loyalty and security by the Director of the Office of Personnel Management.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1980—Pub. L. 96–465 substituted “established under section 3962 or 3963 of this title” for “provided by section 867 of this title,”. 1962—Pub. L. 87–793 substituted “Such representative and any such alternate shall each be entitled to receive compensation at one of the rates provided by section 867 of this title” for “Such representative shall be entitled to receive compensation at a rate not to exceed $12,000 per annum and any such alternate shall be entitled to receive compensation at a rate not to exceed $10,000 per annum.” 1952—Act Apr. 5, 1952, substituted “Civil Service Commission” for “Federal Bureau of Investigation”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1980 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 96–465 effective Feb. 15, 1981, except as otherwise provided, see section 2403 of Pub. L. 96–465, set out as an

Effective Date

note under section 3901 of this title.

Effective Date

of 1962 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 87–793 effective on first day of first pay period which begins on or after Oct. 11, 1962, see section 1008 of Pub. L. 87–793.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

“Director of the Office of Personnel Management” substituted in text for “Civil Service Commission” pursuant to Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1978, § 102, 43 F.R. 36037, 92 Stat. 3783, set out under section 1101 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, which transferred functions vested by statute in Civil Service Commission to Director of Office of Personnel Management (except as otherwise specified), effective Jan. 1, 1979, as provided by section 1–102 of Ex. Ord. No. 12107, Dec. 28, 1978, 44 F.R. 1055, set out under section 1101 of Title 5.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

22 U.S.C. § 290a

Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102