---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 8242"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "8242"
heading: "Sense of Congress regarding ADVANCE Democracy Award"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/8242"
units:
  - "Chapter 89 — Advancing Democratic Values"
  - "Subchapter IV — Training in Democracy and Human Rights; Incentives"
---

# §8242. Sense of Congress regarding ADVANCE Democracy Award


It is the sense of Congress that—

- (1) the [Secretary](/usc/22/8203.md?p=7) should further strengthen the capacity of the [Department](/usc/22/8203.md?p=5) to carry out results-based democracy promotion efforts through the establishment of an annual award to be known as the “Outstanding Achievements in Advancing Democracy Award”, or the “ADVANCE Democracy Award”, that would be awarded to officers or employees of the [Department](/usc/22/8203.md?p=5); and
- (2) the [Secretary](/usc/22/8203.md?p=7) should establish procedures for selecting recipients of such award, including any financial terms associated with such award.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 110–53, title XXI, § 2142, Aug. 3, 2007, 121 Stat. 534.)