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[CITE: 22USC2708a]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
                     CHAPTER 38--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
 
Sec. 2708a. Award of Foreign Service star


(a) Authority to award

    The President, upon the recommendation of the Secretary, may award a 
Foreign Service star to any member of the Foreign Service or any other 
civilian employee of the Government of the United States who, while 
employed at, or assigned permanently or temporarily to, an official 
mission overseas or while traveling abroad on official business, 
incurred a wound or other injury or an illness (whether or not the 
wound, other injury, or illness resulted in death)--
        (1) as the person was performing official duties;
        (2) as the person was on the premises of a United States mission 
    abroad; or
        (3) by reason of the person's status as a United States 
    Government employee.

(b) Selection criteria

    The Secretary shall prescribe the procedures for identifying and 
considering persons eligible for award of a Foreign Service star and for 
selecting the persons to be recommended for the award.

(c) Award in the event of death

    If a person selected for award of a Foreign Service star dies before 
being presented the award, the award may be made and the star presented 
to the person's family or to the person's representative, as designated 
by the President.

(d) Form of award

    The Secretary shall prescribe the design of the Foreign Service 
star. The award may not include a stipend or any other cash payment.

(e) Funding

    Any expenses incurred in awarding a person a Foreign Service star 
may be paid out of appropriations available at the time of the award for 
personnel of the department or agency of the United States Government in 
which the person was employed when the person incurred the wound, 
injury, or illness upon which the award is based.

(Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 841, title I, Sec. 36A, as added Pub. L. 106-113, 
div. B, Sec. 1000(a)(7) [div. A, title III, Sec. 321], Nov. 29, 1999, 
113 Stat. 1536, 1501A-436.)
