2015 US Code
Title 22 - Foreign Relations and Intercourse (Sections 1 - 9141)
Chapter 78 - Trafficking Victims Protection (Sections 7101 - 7113)
Sec. 7109b - Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts To Combat Trafficking in Persons
| Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 3, Title 22 - FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE |
| Category | Bills and Statutes |
| Collection | United States Code |
| SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
| Contained Within | Title 22 - FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE CHAPTER 78 - TRAFFICKING VICTIMS PROTECTION Sec. 7109b - Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts To Combat Trafficking in Persons |
| Contains | section 7109b |
| Date | 2015 |
| Laws In Effect As Of Date | January 3, 2016 |
| Positive Law | No |
| Disposition | standard |
| Source Credit | Pub. L. 106-386, div. A, §112B, as added Pub. L. 110-457, title I, §109, Dec. 23, 2008, 122 Stat. 5051. |
| Statutes at Large Reference | 122 Stat. 5051 |
| Public and Private Law | Public Law 106-386, Public Law 110-457 |
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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) SelectionThe President shall establish procedures for selecting recipients of the award authorized under subsection (a).
(c) CeremonyThe 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 appropriationsThere are authorized to be appropriated, for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2011, such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section.
(Pub. L. 106–386, div. A, §112B, as added Pub. L. 110–457, title I, §109, Dec. 23, 2008, 122 Stat. 5051.)
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