---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 5505"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "5505"
heading: "Disaster training for State Department personnel"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/5505"
units:
  - "Chapter 64 — United States Response to Terrorism Affecting Americans Abroad"
---

# §5505. Disaster training for State Department personnel

- (a) **Additional training—** The Secretary of State shall institute a supplemental program of training in disaster management for all consular officers.
- (b) **Training improvements—**
  - (1) In expanding the training program under [subsection (a)](#a), the Secretary of State shall consult with death and bereavement counselors concerning the particular demands posed by aviation tragedies and terrorist activities.
  - (2) In providing such additional training under [subsection (a)](#a) the Secretary of State shall consider supplementing the current training program through—
    - (A) providing specialized training to create a team of “disaster specialists” to deploy immediately in a crisis; or
    - (B) securing outside experts to be brought in during the initial phases to assist consular personnel.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–604, title II, § 206, Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 3084.)