22 U.S.C. § 2460
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
United States · Title 22 — FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE · Status: effective
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- 22 U.S.C. § 2460, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/456840
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In order to carry out the purposes of this chapter, there is established in the United States Information Agency, or in such appropriate agency of the United States as the President shall determine, a Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (hereinafter in this section referred to as the “Bureau”). The Bureau shall be responsible for managing, coordinating, and overseeing programs established pursuant to this chapter, including but not limited to—
The President shall insure that all programs under the authority of the Bureau shall maintain their nonpolitical character and shall be balanced and representative of the diversity of American political, social, and cultural life. The President shall insure that academic and cultural programs under the authority of the Bureau shall maintain their scholarly integrity and shall meet the highest standards of academic excellence or artistic achievement.
There is established in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs an Office of Citizen Exchanges. The Office shall support private not-for-profit organizations engaged in the exchange of persons between the United States and other countries.
The Working Group shall be composed as follows:
The Working Group shall have the following purposes and responsibilities:
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 The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- A bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1984 and 1985 for the Department of State, the United States Information Agency, the Board for International Broadcasting, the Inter-American Foundation, and the Asia Foundation, to establish the National Endowment for Democracy, and for other purposes.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991House: no recorded tallySenate: 98–0
- FRIENDSHIP ActHouse: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995
- Higher Education Amendments of 1998
- Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999
- Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2003House: 352–73Senate: no recorded tally
- James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024