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Title 20 — Education

Part 2 · Chapter 31 — General Provisions Concerning Education

§ 1232b. Labor standards

Statutory text

All laborers and mechanics employed by contractors or subcontractors on all construction and minor remodeling projects assisted under any applicable program shall be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing on similar construction and minor remodeling in the locality as determined by the Secretary of Labor in accordance with sections 3141–3144, 3146, and 3147 of title 40. The Secretary of Labor shall have, with respect to the labor standards specified in this section, the authority and functions set forth in Reorganization Plan Numbered 14 of 1950 and section 3145 of title 40.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Elementary and Secondary Education Amendments of 1967

    Pub. L. 90–247 title IV § 439 · 81 Stat. 783

    Enacted · 20 U.S.C. § 1232b

    Pub. L. 90–247, title IV, § 439, formerly § 423, as added Pub. L. 91–230, title IV, § 401(a)(10), Apr. 13, 1970, 84 Stat. 169

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 90–247, title IV, § 439, formerly § 423, as added Pub. L. 91–230, title IV, § 401(a)(10), Apr. 13, 1970, 84 Stat. 169

  2. Improving America’s Schools Act of 1994

    Pub. L. 103–382 § 261(d) · 108 Stat. 3518

    Substituted · 20 U.S.C. § 1232b

    Pub. L. 103–382, § 261(d), substituted “All laborers” for “Except for emergency relief under section 241–1 of this title, all laborers”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 103–382, § 261(d), substituted “All laborers” for “Except for emergency relief under section 241–1 of this title, all laborers”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (d) Section 439.— Section 439 of the Act (as redesignated by section 212(b)(1) (20 U.S.C. 1232b) is amended by striking “Except for emergency relief under section 7 of the Act of September 30, 1950 (Public Law 874, Eighty-first Congress), all laborers” and inserting “All laborers”.

1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Reorganization Plan Numbered 14 of 1950, referred to in text, is set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

Codification

“Sections 3141–3144, 3146, and 3147 of title 40” substituted for “the Davis-Bacon Act, as amended (40 U.S.C. 276a—276a–5)” and “section 3145 of title 40” substituted for “section 2 of the Act of June 13, 1934, as amended (40 U.S.C. 276c)” on authority of Pub. L. 107–217, § 5(c), , 116 Stat. 1303, the first section of which enacted Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works.

Prior Provisions

A prior section 439 of Pub. L. 90–247 was renumbered section 445, and is classified to section 1232h of this title.

Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–382, § 261(d), substituted “All laborers” for “Except for emergency relief under section 241–1 of this title, all laborers”.

Credits

1970–1994 · 3 acts
  1. 1970Pub. L. 90–247, title IV, § 439, formerly § 423, as added Pub. L. 91–230, title IV, § 401(a)(10), , 84 Stat. 169
  2. 1972renumbered § 433, Pub. L. 92–318, title III, § 301(a)(1), , 86 Stat. 326
  3. 1994renumbered § 439 and amended Pub. L. 103–382, title II, §§ 212(b)(1), 261(d), , 108 Stat. 3913, 3927.
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(Pub. L. 90–247, title IV, § 439, formerly § 423, as added Pub. L. 91–230, title IV, § 401(a)(10), , 84 Stat. 169; renumbered § 433, Pub. L. 92–318, title III, § 301(a)(1), , 86 Stat. 326; renumbered § 439 and amended Pub. L. 103–382, title II, §§ 212(b)(1), 261(d), , 108 Stat. 3913, 3927.)

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