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type: "LegalText"
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title: "22 U.S.C. § 10501"
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description: "Definitions"
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kind: "code_section"
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title_number: 22
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title_name: "FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE"
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chapter_number: "112"
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chapter_name: "COMBATING GLOBAL CORRUPTION"
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section: "10501"
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citation: "22 U.S.C. § 10501"
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release_date: "2026-06-26"
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---
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# 22 U.S.C. § 10501 - Definitions
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## Text
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In this chapter:
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(1) The term “appropriate congressional committees” means—
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(A) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate; and
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(B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Financial Services, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives.
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(2) The term “corrupt actor” means—
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(A) any foreign person or entity that is a government official or government entity responsible for, or complicit in, an act of corruption; and
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(B) any company, in which a person or entity described in subparagraph (A) has a significant stake, which is responsible for, or complicit in, an act of corruption.
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(3) The term “corruption” means the unlawful exercise of entrusted public power for private gain, including by bribery, nepotism, fraud, or embezzlement.
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(4) The term “significant corruption” means corruption committed at a high level of government that has some or all of the following characteristics:
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(A) Illegitimately distorts major decision-making, such as policy or resource determinations, or other fundamental functions of governance.
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(B) Involves economically or socially large-scale government activities.
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(Pub. L. 118–31, div. E, title LIV, § 5402, Dec. 22, 2023, 137 Stat. 944.)
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## Notes
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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
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Short TitlePub. L. 118–31, div. E, title LIV, § 5401, Dec. 22, 2023, 137 Stat. 944, provided that: “This subtitle [subtitle A (§§ 5401–5406) of title LIV of div. E of Pub. L. 118–31, enacting this chapter] may be cited as the ‘Combating Global Corruption Act’.”
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