Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-110

§6612 Transfer and Allocation of Appropriations

Title 22 › CHAPTER 74 — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AGENCIES CONSOLIDATION › SUBCHAPTER VI — TRANSITION › Part B — Reorganization Authority › § 6612

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

When a part of this chapter is moved, its assets, debts (including contingent debts from lawsuits continued with substituted or added parties under section 6615(e)), contracts, property, records, and any unused funds tied to those functions must be moved to the Secretary for proper allocation. Unused and unobligated funds that are moved must only be spent for their original purpose. But money moved under this rule can be used to help with reorganization if the appropriate congressional committees are told in the same way reprogramming notifications are handled under section 2706. Money in any Department of State account may be moved to another State account for reorganization with the same notice. That extra transfer power ends on September 30, 2000.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §6612

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(a)In general
Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the assets, liabilities (including contingent liabilities arising from suits continued with a substitution or addition of parties under section 6615(e) 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, or portions thereof, transferred by any subchapter of this chapter shall be transferred to the Secretary for appropriate allocation.
(b)Limitation on use of transferred funds
Except as provided in subsection (c), unexpended and unobligated funds transferred pursuant to any subchapter of this chapter shall be used only for the purposes for which the funds were originally authorized and appropriated.
(c)Funds to facilitate transition
(1)Congressional notification
Funds transferred pursuant to subsection (a) may be available for the purposes of reorganization subject to notification of the appropriate congressional committees in accordance with the procedures applicable to a reprogramming of funds under section 2706 of this title.
(2)Transfer authority
Funds in any account appropriated to the Department of State may be transferred to another such account for the purposes of reorganization, subject to notification of the appropriate congressional committees in accordance with the procedures applicable to a reprogramming of funds under section 2706 of this title. The authority in this paragraph is in addition to any other transfer authority available to the Secretary of State and shall expire September 30, 2000.

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This chapter, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (b), was in the original “this subdivision”, meaning subdiv. A of div. G of Pub. L. 105–277, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–765, known as the Foreign Affairs Agencies Consolidation Act of 1998. For complete classification of this subdivision to the Code, see

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note set out under section 6501 of this title and Tables.

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Citation

22 U.S.C. § 6612

Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110