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Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-110

§6613 Transfer, Appointment, and Assignment of Personnel

Title 22 › CHAPTER 74 — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AGENCIES CONSOLIDATION › SUBCHAPTER VI — TRANSITION › Part B — Reorganization Authority › § 6613

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

All staff and jobs from ACDA and USIA must move into the Department of State on the day those agencies are abolished. Staff and jobs from AID that perform any function moved to State must move on the day that function is transferred. They keep the same rank, pay rate, and job protections they had before the move. For six months after each transfer, the Secretary can place those employees into any State Department duties, but cannot cut their rank, pay, or tenure. The Secretary must talk with employee representatives and must protect progress for women and minorities. No one may be assigned to a job that requires a Presidential appointment with Senate approval. These rules apply even if other laws say otherwise.

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Title 22, §6613

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(a)Transfer of personnel from ACDA and USIA
Except as otherwise provided in subchapter III—
(1)not later than the date of abolition of ACDA, all personnel and positions of ACDA, and
(2)not later than the date of abolition of USIA, all personnel and positions of USIA,
shall be transferred to the Department of State 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.
(b)Transfer of personnel from AID
Except as otherwise provided in subchapter III, not later than the date of transfer of any function of AID to the Department of State under this chapter, all AID personnel performing such functions and all positions associated with such functions shall be transferred to the Department of State 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)Assignment authority
The Secretary, for a period of not more than 6 months commencing on the effective date of the transfer to the Department of State of personnel under subsections (a) and (b), is authorized to assign such personnel to any position or set of duties in the Department of State regardless of the position held or duties performed by such personnel prior to transfer, except that, by virtue of such assignment, such personnel shall not have their grade or class or their rate of basic pay or basic salary rate reduced, nor their tenure changed. In carrying out the reorganization under this Act, the Secretary shall ensure that the advances made in increasing the number and status of women and minorities within the foreign affairs agencies of the Federal Government, in terms of representation within the agencies as well as relative rank, are not undermined by discrimination within the newly reorganized Department of State. The Secretary shall consult with the relevant exclusive representatives (as defined in section 4102 of this title and in section 7103 of title 5) with regard to the exercise of this authority. This subsection does not authorize the Secretary to assign any individual to any position that by law requires appointment by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
(d)Superseding other provisions of law
Subsections (a) through (c) shall be exercised notwithstanding any other provision of law.

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References in Text

Subchapter III, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (b), was in the original “title XIII”, meaning title XIII of subdiv. A of div. G of Pub. L. 105–277, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–776. For complete classification of title XIII of div. G of this Act to the Code, see Tables. This chapter, referred to in subsec. (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

Short Title

note set out under section 6501 of this title and Tables. This Act, referred to in subsec. (c), probably means division G of Pub. L. 105–277, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–761, known as the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998. For complete classification of division G to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 6501 of this title and Tables. section 4102 of this title, referred to in subsec. (c), was in the original “section 1002 of the Foreign Service Act”, and was translated as meaning section 1002 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to reflect the probable intent of Congress.

Amendments

1999—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 106–113 inserted after first sentence “In carrying out the reorganization under this Act, the Secretary shall ensure that the advances made in increasing the number and status of women and minorities within the foreign affairs agencies of the Federal Government, in terms of representation within the agencies as well as relative rank, are not undermined by discrimination within the newly reorganized Department of State.”

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22 U.S.C. § 6613

Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110