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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Chapter 39 — Arms Export Control

§ 2756. Foreign intimidation and harassment of individuals in United States

Statutory text

No letters of offer may be issued, no credits or guarantees may be extended, and no export licenses may be issued under this chapter with respect to any country determined by the President to be engaged in a consistent pattern of acts of intimidation or harassment directed against individuals in the United States. The President shall report any such determination promptly to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, and to the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. The Foreign Military Sales Act

    Pub. L. 90–629 · 82 Stat. 1320

    Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 2756

    Pub. L. 90–629, ch. 1, § 6, as added Pub. L. 97–113, title I, § 115, Dec. 29, 1981, 95 Stat. 1528

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 90–629, ch. 1, § 6, as added Pub. L. 97–113, title I, § 115, Dec. 29, 1981, 95 Stat. 1528

  2. Pub. L. 113–276 title II § 208(a)(1) · 128 Stat. 2989

    Substituted · 22 U.S.C. § 2756

    Pub. L. 113–276 substituted “the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, and” for “the Speaker of the House of Representatives and”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 113–276 substituted “the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, and” for “the Speaker of the House of Representatives and”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (1) in sections 3(a), 3(d)(1), 3(d)(3)(A), 3(e), 5(c), 6, 21(g), 36(a), 36(b)(1), 36(b)(5)(C), 36(c)(1), 36(f), 38(f)(1), 40(f)(1), 40(g)(2)(B), 101(b), and 102(a)(2), 22 USC 2753, 2755, 2756, 2761, 2776, 2778, 2780, 2799. by striking “the Speaker of the House of Representatives and” each place it appears and inserting “the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, and”;

1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 90–629, , 82 Stat. 1321, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 2751 of this title and Tables.

Amendments

2014—Pub. L. 113–276 substituted “the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, and” for “the Speaker of the House of Representatives and”.

Credits

1981–2014 · 2 acts
  1. 1981Pub. L. 90–629, ch. 1, § 6, as added Pub. L. 97–113, title I, § 115, , 95 Stat. 1528
  2. 2014amended Pub. L. 113–276, title II, § 208(a)(1), , 128 Stat. 2992.
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(Pub. L. 90–629, ch. 1, § 6, as added Pub. L. 97–113, title I, § 115, , 95 Stat. 1528; amended Pub. L. 113–276, title II, § 208(a)(1), , 128 Stat. 2992.)

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