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Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-110

§4902 Fellowship Board

Title 22 › CHAPTER 59 — FASCELL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM › § 4902

Last updated Sep 23, 2026|Official source

Summary

Creates a Fellowship Board that picks who may serve as Fellows. Board — the Fellowship Board that chooses the Fellows. The Board must have 7 members: a senior State Department official (who is the chair) chosen by the Secretary of State, one Department of Commerce officer or employee chosen by the Secretary of Commerce, and five academic experts in international affairs or foreign languages appointed by the Secretary of State after consulting the chair and ranking minority member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the chair and ranking minority member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The Board must meet at least once each year to select Fellows. Board members get no pay for serving, but may be reimbursed for travel and per diem while away from home, the same as intermittent federal workers under section 5703 of title 5.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §4902

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(a)Establishment and function
There is hereby established a Fellowship Board (hereafter in this chapter referred to as the “Board”), which shall select the individuals who will be eligible to serve as Fellows.
(b)Membership
The Board shall consist of 7 members as follows:
(1)A senior official of the Department of State (who shall be the chair of the Board), designated by the Secretary of State.
(2)An officer or employee of the Department of Commerce, designated by the Secretary of Commerce.
(3)Five academic specialists in international affairs or foreign languages, appointed by the Secretary of State (in consultation with the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the chairman and ranking minority of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate).
(c)Meetings
The Board shall meet at least once each year to select the individuals who will be eligible to serve as Fellows.
(d)Compensation and per diem
Members of the Board shall receive no compensation on account of their service on the Board, but while away from their homes or regular places of business in the performance of their duties under this chapter, may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, in the same manner as persons employed intermittently in the Government service are allowed expenses under section 5703 of title 5.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1998—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 105–277, § 1335(f)(1), substituted “7 members” for “9 members” in introductory provisions. Subsec. (b)(3), (4). Pub. L. 105–277, § 1335(f)(2)–(4), redesignated par. (4) as (3), substituted “Five” for “Six”, and struck out former par. (3) which read as follows: “An officer or employee of the United States Information Agency, designated by the Director of that Agency.” 1990—Subsec. (b)(4). Pub. L. 101–454 substituted “international affairs or foreign languages,” for “Soviet or Eastern European area studies or languages,”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1998 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 105–277 effective Oct. 1, 1999, see section 1301 of Pub. L. 105–277, set out as an

Effective Date

note under section 6531 of this title.

Effective Date

of 1990 Amendment Pub. L. 101–454, § 9(c)(2), Oct. 24, 1990, 104 Stat. 1066, provided that: “The amendment made by paragraph (1) [amending this section] shall apply only to appointments to the Fascell Fellowship Board after the date of the enactment of this section [Oct. 24, 1990] and shall not affect the service of members of such board on the date of the enactment of this section.”

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Citation

22 U.S.C. § 4902

Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Sep 23, 2026

Release point: 119-110