---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 4030"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "4030"
heading: "Suitability reviews for Foreign Service Institute instructors"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/4030"
units:
  - "Chapter 52 — Foreign Service"
  - "Subchapter VII — Career Development, Training, and Orientation"
---

# §4030. Suitability reviews for Foreign Service Institute instructors


The [Secretary](/usc/22/3902.md?p=10) shall take reasonable steps to ensure that all instructors at the Foreign Service Institute, including direct hires and contractors, who provide language instruction are—

- (1) subject to suitability reviews and background investigations; and
- (2) subject to periodic background checks or reinvestigations to the extent consistent with [Department](/usc/22/3902.md?p=4) and Executive policy for other [Department](/usc/22/3902.md?p=4) personnel.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 118–31, div. F, title LXI, § 6116, Dec. 22, 2023, 137 Stat. 970.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Department of State Authorization Act of 2023, and also as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, and not as part of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 which comprises this chapter.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Definitions

For definitions of “Secretary” and “Department” as used in this section, see section 6002 of Pub. L. 118–31, set out as a note under section 2651 of this title.