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Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-110

§7109b Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons

Title 22 › CHAPTER 78 — TRAFFICKING VICTIMS PROTECTION › § 7109b

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The President may create the Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts To Combat Trafficking in Persons to honor outstanding work against human trafficking. As much as possible, the Secretary of State should give the award each year to no more than five recipients, who may be U.S. or foreign individuals or NGOs. The President will set the rules for picking winners. The Secretary must hold a ceremony after sending the report required under section 7107(b)(1) to Congress and may pay travel for each recipient and one guest. Money may be appropriated as needed for fiscal years 2022 through 2027.

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Title 22, §7109b

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(a)Establishment of award
The President is authorized to establish an award, to be known as the “Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts To Combat Trafficking in Persons”, for extraordinary efforts to combat trafficking in persons. To the maximum extent practicable, the Secretary of State shall present the award annually to not more than 5 individuals or organizations, including—
(1)individuals who are United States citizens or foreign nationals; and
(2)United States or foreign nongovernmental organizations.
(b)Selection
The President shall establish procedures for selecting recipients of the award authorized under subsection (a).
(c)Ceremony
The Secretary of State shall host an annual ceremony for recipients of the award authorized under subsection (a) as soon as practicable after the date on which the Secretary submits to Congress the report required under section 7107(b)(1) of this title. The Secretary of State may pay the travel costs of each recipient and a guest of each recipient who attends the ceremony.
(d)Authorization of appropriations
There are authorized to be appropriated, for each of the fiscal years 2022 through 2027, such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section.

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2023—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 117–347 substituted “2022 through 2027” for “2008 through 2011”.

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22 U.S.C. § 7109b

Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110