Federal

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

3,485 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 7551 — Requirement to comply with procedures relating to the prohibition on assistance to drug traffickers
• § 7552 — Sense of Congress regarding protecting Afghanistan’s President
• § 7553 — Donor contributions to Afghanistan and reports
• § 7554 — Reports
• § 7555 — Formulation of long-term strategy for Afghanistan
• § 7556 — Benchmarks to evaluate the progress being made toward the transition of security responsibilities for Afghanistan to the Government of Afghanistan
• § 7601 — Findings
• § 7602 — Definitions
• § 7603 — Purpose
• § 7604 — Authority to consolidate and combine reports
• § 7611 — Development of a comprehensive, five-year, global strategy
• § 7612 — HIV/AIDS response Coordinator
• § 7612a — HIV/AIDS Working Capital Fund
• § 7621 — Sense of Congress on public-private partnerships
• § 7622 — Participation in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
• § 7623 — Combating HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria by strengthening health policies and health systems of partner countries
• § 7624 — Facilitating vaccine development
• § 7631 — Assistance to combat HIV/AIDS
• § 7631a — United States Agency for International Development
• § 7632 — Authorization of appropriations to combat tuberculosis
• § 7633 — Assistance to combat malaria
• § 7634 — Malaria response Coordinator
• § 7635 — Report on treatment activities by relevant executive branch agencies
• § 7636 — Study on illegal diversions of prescription drugs
• § 7651 — Findings
• § 7652 — Policy and requirements
• § 7653 — Annual reports on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of the HIV infection
• § 7654 — Pilot program of assistance for children and families affected by HIV/AIDS
• § 7655 — Pilot program on family survival partnerships
• § 7671 — Authorization of appropriations
• § 7672 — Sense of Congress
• § 7673 — Allocation of funds
• § 7674 — Assistance from the United States private sector to prevent and reduce HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa
• § 7681 — Report on expansion of debt relief to non-HIPC countries
• § 7682 — Authorization of appropriations
• § 7701 — Purposes
• § 7702 — Definitions
• § 7703 — Establishment and management of the Millennium Challenge Corporation
• § 7704 — Authorization of assistance
• § 7705 — Candidate countries
• § 7706 — Eligible countries
• § 7707 — Congressional and public notification of candidate countries, eligibility criteria, and eligible countries
• § 7708 — Millennium Challenge Compact
• § 7709 — Congressional and public notification
• § 7710 — Suspension and termination of assistance
• § 7711 — Disclosure
• § 7712 — Annual report
• § 7713 — Powers of the Corporation; related provisions
• § 7714 — Coordination with United States Agency for International Development
• § 7715 — Assistance to certain candidate countries
• § 7716 — General personnel authorities
• § 7717 — Personnel outside the United States
• § 7718 — Authorization of appropriations
• § 7801 — Findings
• § 7802 — Purposes
• § 7803 — Definitions
• § 7811 — Sense of Congress regarding negotiations with North Korea
• § 7812 — Support for human rights and democracy programs
• § 7813 — Radio broadcasting to North Korea
• § 7814 — Actions to promote freedom of information
• § 7815 — United Nations Commission on Human Rights
• § 7816 — Establishment of regional framework
• § 7817 — Special Envoy on North Korean human rights issues
• § 7818 — National registry of Korean American divided families
• § 7831 — Report on United States humanitarian assistance
• § 7832 — Assistance provided inside North Korea
• § 7833 — Assistance provided outside of North Korea
• § 7834 — Briefings on the welfare of North Korean children
• § 7841 — United States policy toward refugees and defectors
• § 7842 — Eligibility for refugee or asylum consideration
• § 7843 — Facilitating submission of applications for admission as a refugee
• § 7844 — United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
• § 7845 — Annual reports
• § 7846 — Sense of Congress on humanitarian coordination related to the Korean Peninsula
• § 7901 — Definitions
• § 7902 — Reduction of greenhouse gas intensity
• § 7903 — Technology inventory for developing countries
• § 7904 — Trade-related barriers to export of greenhouse gas intensity reducing technologies
• § 7905 — Greenhouse Gas Intensity Reducing Technology Export Initiative
• § 7906 — Technology demonstration projects
• § 7907 — Fellowship and exchange programs
• § 7908 — Authorization of appropriations
• § 7909 — Authorization for the Clean Technology Fund
• § 8 — Repealed. Pub. L. 89–554, § 8(a) , Sept. 6, 1966 , 80 Stat. 645
• § 80 to 82 — Repealed. Aug. 13, 1946, ch. 957 , title XI, § 1131(9), (10), (22), 60 Stat. 1036
• § 8001 — Sense of Congress
• § 8002 — Statements of policy
• § 8003 — Waiver authority and congressional approval
• § 8004 — United States compliance with its nuclear nonproliferation treaty obligations
• § 8005 — Inoperability of determination and waivers
• § 8006 — MTCR adherent status
• § 8007 — United States-India scientific cooperative nuclear nonproliferation program
• § 8008 — Definitions
• § 801 — Repealed. Pub. L. 96–465, title II, § 2205(1) , Oct. 17, 1980 , 94 Stat. 2159
• § 802 to 807 — Repealed. Pub. L. 96–465, title II, § 2205(1) , Oct. 17, 1980 , 94 Stat. 2159
• § 808 — Repealed. Pub. L. 92–310, title II, § 227(c) , June 6, 1972 , 86 Stat. 207
• § 809, 810 — Repealed. Pub. L. 96–465, title II, § 2205(1) , Oct. 17, 1980 , 94 Stat. 2159
• § 8101 — Findings
• § 8102 — Definitions
• § 8103 — Severability
• § 811 — Repealed. May 26, 1949, ch. 143, § 5 , 63 Stat. 111
• § 8111 — Authority
• § 811a — Repealed. Pub. L. 103–236, title I, § 162(a) , Apr. 30, 1994 , 108 Stat. 405
• § 812 to 814 — Transferred
• § 8121 — Requirement for authority to conduct complementary access
• § 8122 — Procedures for complementary access
• § 8123 — Consents, warrants, and complementary access
• § 8124 — Prohibited acts relating to complementary access
• § 8131 — Protection of confidentiality of information
• § 8141 — Recordkeeping violations
• § 8142 — Penalties
• § 8143 — Specific enforcement
• § 815 — Repealed. June 25, 1948, ch. 645, § 21 , 62 Stat. 862 , eff. Sept. 1, 1948
• § 8151 — Notification to Congress of IAEA Board approval of wide-area environmental sampling
• § 8152 — Application of national security exclusion to wide-area environmental sampling
• § 8153 — Application of national security exclusion to location-specific environmental sampling
• § 8154 — Rule of construction
• § 816, 817 — Repealed. Pub. L. 96–465, title II, § 2205(1) , Oct. 17, 1980 , 94 Stat. 2159
• § 8161 — Protection of certain information
• § 8162 — IAEA inspections and visits
• § 8171 — Report on initial United States declaration
• § 8172 — Report on revisions to initial United States declaration
• § 8173 — Content of reports on United States declarations
• § 8174 — Report on efforts to promote the implementation of additional protocols
• § 8175 — Notice of IAEA notifications
• § 8181 — Authorization of appropriations
• § 8201 — Findings
• § 8202 — Statement of policy
• § 8203 — Definitions
• § 821 — Repealed. Pub. L. 96–465, title II, § 2205(1) , Oct. 17, 1980 , 94 Stat. 2159
• § 8211 — Democracy promotion at the Department of State
• § 8212 — Democracy Fellowship Program
• § 8213 — Investigations of violations of international humanitarian law
• § 822 — Repealed. May 26, 1949, ch. 143, § 5 , 63 Stat. 111
• § 8221 — Strategies, priorities, and annual report
• § 8222 — Translation of human rights reports
• § 8231 — Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion
• § 8232 — Sense of Congress regarding the Internet website of the Department of State
• § 8241 — Training in democracy promotion and the protection of human rights
• § 8242 — Sense of Congress regarding ADVANCE Democracy Award
• § 8243 — Personnel policies at the Department of State
• § 8251 — Cooperation with democratic countries
• § 826 — Repealed. Pub. L. 96–465, title II, § 2205(1) , Oct. 17, 1980 , 94 Stat. 2159
• § 8261 — The United Nations Democracy Fund
• § 8262 — United States democracy assistance programs
• § 827 — Repealed. Pub. L. 96–465, title II, § 2205(1) , Oct. 17, 1980 , 94 Stat. 2159
• § 83 to 104 — Transferred
• § 8301 — Findings
• § 8302 — Definitions
• § 8303 — Office of Volunteers for Prosperity
• § 8304 — Authorization of appropriations
• § 8401 — Definitions
• § 8402 — Findings
• § 8403 — Statement of principles
• § 841 to 843 — Repealed. Pub. L. 96–465, title II, § 2205(1) , Oct. 17, 1980 , 94 Stat. 2159
• § 8411 — Authorization of assistance
• § 8412 — Authorization of appropriations
• § 8413 — Auditing
• § 8421 — Purposes of assistance
• § 8422 — Authorization of assistance
• § 8423 — Limitations on certain assistance
• § 8424 — Pakistan Counterinsurgency Capability Fund
• § 8425 — Requirements for civilian control of certain assistance
• § 8441 — Strategy reports
• § 8442 — Monitoring reports
• § 846 — Repealed. Pub. L. 96–465, title II, § 2205(1) , Oct. 17, 1980 , 94 Stat. 2159
• § 8501 — Findings
• § 8511 — Definitions
• § 8512 — Economic sanctions relating to Iran
• § 8513 — Mandatory sanctions with respect to financial institutions that engage in certain transactions
• § 8513a — Imposition of sanctions with respect to the financial sector of Iran
• § 8513b — Expansion of, and reports on, mandatory sanctions with respect to financial institutions that engage in certain activities
• § 8514 — Imposition of sanctions on certain persons who are responsible for or complicit in human rights abuses committed against citizens of Iran or their family members after the June 12, 2009 , elections in Iran
• § 8514a — Imposition of sanctions with respect to the transfer of goods or technologies to Iran that are likely to be used to commit human rights abuses
• § 8514b — Imposition of sanctions with respect to persons who engage in censorship or other related activities against citizens of Iran
• § 8514c — Imposition of sanctions with respect to persons engaged in the diversion of goods intended for the people of Iran
• § 8515 — Prohibition on procurement contracts with persons that export sensitive technology to Iran
• § 8516 — Authority to implement United Nations Security Council resolutions imposing sanctions with respect to Iran
• § 8517 — Increased capacity for efforts to combat unlawful or terrorist financing
• § 8518 — Reports on investments in the energy sector of Iran
• § 8519 — Reports on certain activities of foreign export credit agencies and of the Export-Import Bank of the United States
• § 8531 — Definitions
• § 8532 — Authority of State and local governments to divest from certain companies that invest in Iran
• § 8541 — Definitions
• § 8542 — Identification of countries of concern with respect to the diversion of certain goods, services, and technologies to or through Iran
• § 8543 — Destinations of Diversion Concern
• § 8544 — Enforcement authority
• § 8551 — General provisions
• § 8561 — Findings
• § 8562 — Definitions
• § 8563 — Report and imposition of sanctions with respect to persons who are responsible for or complicit in abuses toward dissidents on behalf of the Government of Iran
• § 8564 — Report and imposition of sanctions with respect to foreign financial institutions conducting significant transactions with persons responsible for or complicit in abuses toward dissidents on behalf of the Government of Iran
• § 8565 — Exceptions; waivers; implementation
• § 8566 — Exception relating to importation of goods
• § 8571 — Statement of policy
• § 8572 — Imposition of sanctions with respect to Iranian petroleum
• § 8573 — Report on Iranian petroleum and petroleum products exports
• § 8574 — Strategy to counter role of the People’s Republic of China in evasion of sanctions with respect to Iran
• § 8575 — Definitions
• § 8601 — Findings