22 U.S.C. § 3929b: Cooperation with Office of…

Summary

Within 30 days after December 27, 2021, the Secretary of State must tell all State Department personnel (including the Secretary, employees, contractors, and political appointees) and should update department manuals that anyone who does not comply within 60 days with an Office of the Inspector General request for an interview or documents may face administrative discipline, including suspension without pay or removal. No later than 180 days after December 27, 2021, and every quarter after, the OIG and the U.S. Agency for Global Media must send unclassified reports to the appropriate congressional committees and the Secretary of State showing how many people failed to comply within 60 days, when the requests were made, any voluntary extensions, and the general topics; extra topic details may be in a classified annex.

Title 22, §3929b

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(a)Administrative discipline

Not later than 30 days after December 27, 2021, the Secretary of State shall make explicit in writing to all Department of State personnel, including the Secretary of State, Department employees, contractors, and political appointees, and shall consider updating the Foreign Affairs Manual and the Foreign Affairs Handbook to explicitly specify, that if any of such personnel does not comply within 60 days with a request for an interview or access to documents from the Office of the Inspector General of the Department, such personnel may be subject to appropriate administrative discipline including, when circumstances warrant, suspension without pay or removal.

(b)Report

(1)In general

Not later than 180 days after December 27, 2021 and on a quarterly basis thereafter, the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of State and the United States Agency for Global Media shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees and the Secretary of State a report in unclassified form detailing the following:

(A)The number of individuals who have failed to comply within 60 days with a request for an interview or access to documents from the Office of the Inspector General pertaining to a noncriminal matter.

(B)The date on which such requests were initially made.

(C)Any extension of time that was voluntarily granted to such individual by the Office of the Inspector General.

(D)The general subject matters regarding which the Office of the Inspector General has requested of such individuals.

(2)Form

Additional information pertaining solely to the subject matter of a request described in paragraph (1) may be provided in a supplemental classified annex, if necessary, but all other information required by the reports required under such paragraph shall be provided in unclassified form.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the Department of State Authorization Act of 2021 and also as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022, and not as part of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 which comprises this chapter.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Definition For definition of “appropriate congressional committees” as used in this section, see section 5002 of Pub. L. 117–81, set out as a note under section 263c of this title.

§3929b Cooperation with Office of the Inspector General

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Title 22, §3929b

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