---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 3715b"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "3715b"
heading: "Transfers from Fund for compensation benefits"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/3715b"
units:
  - "Chapter 51 — Panama Canal"
  - "Subchapter I — Administration and Regulations"
  - "Part 3 — Funds and Accounts"
  - "Subpart i — funds"
---

# §3715b. Transfers from Fund for compensation benefits


The [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) of the Treasury shall, upon request of the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) of Labor, transfer funds from the Fund to the Employees’ Compensation Fund to reimburse the Employees’ Compensation Fund for the total cost of workers’ compensation benefits and other payments described in [section 3715a(a) of this title](/usc/22/3715a.md?p=a) that are provided on or after October 1, 1988.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 100–705, § 4, Nov. 19, 1988, 102 Stat. 4685.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Panama Canal Commission Compensation Fund Act of 1988, and not as part of the Panama Canal Act of 1979 which comprises this chapter.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1988, see section 10 of Pub. L. 100–705, set out as an Effective Date of 1988 Amendment note under section 3612 of this title.