22 U.S.C. § 2318
Special authority
United States · Title 22 — FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE · Status: effective
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- 22 U.S.C. § 2318, Special authority, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/456605
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If the President determines and reports to the Congress in accordance with section 2411 of this title that—
If the President determines and reports to the Congress in accordance with section 2411 of this title that it is in the national interest of the United States to draw down articles and services from the inventory and resources of any agency of the United States Government and military education and training from the Department of Defense, the President may direct the drawdown of such articles, services, and military education and training—
for the purposes and under the authorities of—
for the purpose of providing such articles, services, and military education and training to Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos as the President determines are necessary—
An aggregate value of not to exceed $200,000,000 in any fiscal year of such articles, services, and military education and training may be provided pursuant to subparagraph (A) of this paragraph—
For the purposes of any provision of law that authorizes the drawdown of defense or other articles or commodities, or defense or other services from an agency of the United States Government, such drawdown may include the supply of commercial transportation and related services that are acquired by contract for the purposes of the drawdown in question if the cost to acquire such commercial transportation and related services is less than the cost to the United States Government of providing such services from existing agency assets.
There are authorized to be appropriated to the President such sums as may be necessary to reimburse the applicable appropriation, fund, or account for defense articles, defense services, and military education and training provided under this section.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- Foreign Assistance Act of 1973House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Foreign Assistance Act of 1974House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act of 1976House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- An act to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Arms Export Control Act to authorize international security assistance programs for fiscal year 1980, and for other purposes.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1980House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1981House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1990House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Arms Export Control Act to make improvements to certain defense and security assistance provisions under those Acts, to authorize the transfer of naval vessels to certain foreign countries, and for other purposes.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1998House: 333–76Senate: no recorded tally
- Security Assistance Act of 2000House: 396–17Senate: no recorded tally
- James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023