Title 20 — Education
Chapter 33 — Education of Individuals with Disabilities
§ 1402. Office of Special Education Programs
Statutory text
Establishment
There shall be, within the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in the Department of Education, an Office of Special Education Programs, which shall be the principal agency in the Department for administering and carrying out this chapter and other programs and activities concerning the education of children with disabilities.
Director
The Office established under subsection (a) shall be headed by a Director who shall be selected by the Secretary and shall report directly to the Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
Voluntary and uncompensated services
Notwithstanding section 1342 of title 31, the Secretary is authorized to accept voluntary and uncompensated services in furtherance of the purposes of this chapter.
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.
Education of the Handicapped Act
Pub. L. 91–230 title VI § 603 · 84 Stat. 121
Enacted · 20 U.S.C. § 1402
(Pub. L. 91–230, title VI, § 603, as added Pub. L. 108–446, title I, § 101, Dec. 3, 2004, 118 Stat. 2659.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 91–230, title VI, § 603, as added Pub. L. 108–446, title I, § 101, Dec. 3, 2004, 118 Stat. 2659.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 603. bureau for education and training of the handicapped There shall be, within the Office of Education, a bureau Establishment. for the education and training of the handicapped which shall be the principal agency in the Office of Education for administering and carrying out programs and projects relating to the education and training of the handicapped, including programs and projects for the training of teachers of the handicapped and for research in Such education and training.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Prior Provisions
A prior section 1402, Pub. L. 91–230, title VI, § 603, as added Pub. L. 105–17, title I, § 101, , 111 Stat. 46, related to the Office of Special Education Programs, prior to the general amendment of subchapters I to IV of this chapter by Pub. L. 108–446.
Another prior section 1402, Pub. L. 91–230, title VI, § 603, , 84 Stat. 177; Pub. L. 93–380, title VI, § 612(a), , 88 Stat. 579; Pub. L. 98–199, § 3(a), , 97 Stat. 1357; Pub. L. 101–476, title IX, § 901(b)(21), , 104 Stat. 1143; Pub. L. 102–119, § 25(b), , 105 Stat. 607, related to the Office of Special Education Programs, prior to the general amendment of subchapters I to IV of this chapter by Pub. L. 105–17.
Credits
(Pub. L. 91–230, title VI, § 603, as added Pub. L. 108–446, title I, § 101, , 118 Stat. 2659.)