§6542 — Title 22 Foreign Relations and Intercourse | U.S. Code

Summary

Move all property, debts (including possible legal liabilities from lawsuits continued under section 6543(d)), contracts, records, and any unused money tied to the USIA functions moved by this law to the Broadcasting Board of Governors for them to allocate. The Secretary, with the Broadcasting Board of Governors’ agreement, may also send extra assets, contracts, records, and unused funds to the Chairman of the Board to help support the moved functions. All USIA jobs used for the moved functions must go to the Broadcasting Board of Governors at the same job grade, pay rate, and job status they had before. Additional support staff chosen by the Secretary, with the agreement of the Board and the Director of USIA (including staff in the International Broadcasting Bureau), will also transfer on the same terms. Staff who run interactive programs with foreign media using the Worldnet TV system, and their funds, will move to the Department of State under subchapter VI. When asked by the Board, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget may make other necessary transfers or changes of people, property, contracts, records, or unused funds to carry out these moves.

Title 22, §6542

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(a)(1)The assets, liabilities (including contingent liabilities arising from suits continued with a substitution or addition of parties under section 6543(d) of this title), contracts, property, records, and unexpended balance of appropriations, authorizations, allocations, and other funds employed, held, used, arising from, available to, or to be made available in connection with the functions and offices of USIA transferred to the Broadcasting Board of Governors by this part shall be transferred to the Broadcasting Board of Governors for appropriate allocation.

(2)In addition to the transfers made under paragraph (1), there shall be transferred to the Chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors the assets, contracts, property, records, and unexpended balance of appropriations, authorizations, allocations, and other funds, as determined by the Secretary, in concurrence with the Broadcasting Board of Governors, to support the functions transferred by this part.

(b)Notwithstanding any other provision of law—

(1)except as provided in subsection (c), all personnel and positions of USIA employed or maintained to carry out the functions transferred by this part to the Broadcasting Board of Governors shall be transferred to the Broadcasting Board of Governors at the same grade or class and the same rate of basic pay or basic salary rate and with the same tenure held immediately preceding transfer; and

(2)the personnel and positions of USIA, as determined by the Secretary of State, with the concurrence of the Broadcasting Board of Governors and the Director of USIA, to support the functions transferred by this part shall be transferred to the Broadcasting Board of Governors, including the International Broadcasting Bureau, at the same grade or class and the same rate of basic pay or basic salary rate and with the same tenure held immediately preceding transfer.

(c)USIA personnel responsible for carrying out interactive dialogs with foreign media and other similar overseas public diplomacy programs using the Worldnet television broadcasting system, and funds associated with such personnel, shall be transferred to the Department of State in accordance with the provisions of subchapter VI of this chapter.

(d)The Director of the Office of Management and Budget, when requested by the Broadcasting Board of Governors, is authorized to make such incidental dispositions of personnel, assets, liabilities, grants, contracts, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, authorizations, allocations, and other funds held, used, arising from, available to, or to be made available in connection with functions and offices transferred from USIA, as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This part, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (b), was in the original “this chapter”, meaning chapter 3 (§§ 1321–1328) of title XIII of subdiv. A of div. G of Pub. L. 105–277, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–777. For complete classification of chapter 3 to the Code, see Tables.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Broadcasting Board of Governors renamed United States Agency for Global Media pursuant to section 6204(a)(21) of this title. The renaming was effectuated by notice to congressional appropriations committees dated May 24, 2018, and became effective Aug. 22, 2018.

§6542 Transfer of Broadcasting Related Funds, Property, and Personnel