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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73not60

§3927b Reporting Requirement on Chiefs of Mission

Title 22 › Chapter 52— FOREIGN SERVICE › Subchapter II— MANAGEMENT OF SERVICE › § 3927b

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Within 30 days after each calendar quarter ends, the Secretary must send the proper congressional committees a list of every chief of mission or United States representative overseas with the rank of Ambassador who, in the prior quarter, was approved by the Under Secretary of State for Management to be outside their assigned country for reasons other than official travel or temporary duty. The report must also show how many days each of those people was outside their assigned country during that quarter for those non-official-travel reasons.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §3927b

Foreign Relations and Intercourse — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

Not later than 30 days following the end of each calendar quarter, the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees—
(1)a list of every chief of mission or United States representative overseas with the rank of Ambassador who, during the prior quarter, was granted approval by the Under Secretary of State for Management to be outside a country of assignment for purposes other than official travel or temporary duty orders; and
(2)the number of days each such chief of mission or United States representative overseas with the rank of Ambassador was outside a country of assignment during the previous quarter for purposes other than official travel or temporary duty orders.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the Department of State Authorization Act of 2023, and also as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, and not as part of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 which comprises this chapter.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Definitions For definitions of “Secretary” and “appropriate congressional committees” as used in this section, see section 6002 of Pub. L. 118–31, set out as a note under section 2651 of this title.

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Citation

22 U.S.C. § 3927b

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60