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Title 20 — Education

Chapter 48 — Department of Education

§ 3416. Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education

Statutory text

There shall be in the Department an Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, to be administered by the Assistant Secretary for Career, Technical, and Adult Education appointed under section 3412(b) of this title. The Assistant Secretary shall administer such functions affecting career, technical, and adult education as the Secretary shall delegate, and shall serve as principal adviser to the Secretary on matters affecting career, technical, and adult education. The Secretary, through the Assistant Secretary, shall also provide a unified approach to rural education and rural family education through the coordination of programs within the Department and shall work with the Federal Interagency Committee on Education to coordinate related activities and programs of other Federal departments and agencies.

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. Department of Education Organization Act

    Pub. L. 96–88 title II § 206 · 93 Stat. 668

    Enacted · 20 U.S.C. § 3416

    Pub. L. 96–88, title II, § 206, Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 674

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 96–88, title II, § 206, Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 674

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 206. office of vocational and adult education There shall be in the Department an Office of Vocational and Adult Education, to be administered by the Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education appointed under section 202(b). The Assistant Secretary shall administer such functions affecting vocational and adult education as the Secretary shall delegate, and shall serve as principal adviser to the Secretary on matters affecting vocational and adult education. The Secretary, through the Assistant Secretary, shall also provide a unified approach to rural education and rural family education through the coordination of programs within the Department and shall work with the Federal Interagency Committee on Education to coordinate related activities and programs of other Federal departments and agencies.

  2. Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014

    Pub. L. 113–76 div. H title III § 307(a) · 128 Stat. 5

    1. Substituted · 20 U.S.C. § 3416

      Pub. L. 113–76 substituted, in section catchline, “Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education” for “Office of Vocational and Adult Education” in two places

    2. Substituted · 20 U.S.C. § 3416

      Pub. L. 113–76 substituted, in section catchline, “Assistant Secretary for Career, Technical, and Adult Education” for “Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education” in two places

    3. Substituted · 20 U.S.C. § 3416

      Pub. L. 113–76 substituted, in section catchline, “career, technical, and adult education” for “vocational and adult education” in two places

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 113–76 substituted, in section catchline, “Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education” for “Office of Vocational and Adult Education” and, in text, “Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education” for “Office of Vocational and Adult Education”, “Assistant Secretary for Career, Technical, and Adult Education” for “Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education”, and “career, technical, and adult education” for “vocational and adult education” in two places.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 307. Section 20320 of the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2007, Public Law 109–289, division B, as amended by the Revised Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2007, Public Law 110–5, is amended 42 USC 16515. by striking in subsection (c) “an annual review” after “conduct” and inserting in lieu thereof “a review every three years”.

4 of 4 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2014—Pub. L. 113–76 substituted, in section catchline, “Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education” for “Office of Vocational and Adult Education” and, in text, “Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education” for “Office of Vocational and Adult Education”, “Assistant Secretary for Career, Technical, and Adult Education” for “Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education”, and “career, technical, and adult education” for “vocational and adult education” in two places.

Credits

1979–2014 · 2 acts
  1. 1979Pub. L. 96–88, title II, § 206, , 93 Stat. 674
  2. 2014Pub. L. 113–76, div. H, title III, § 307(a), , 128 Stat. 399.
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(Pub. L. 96–88, title II, § 206, , 93 Stat. 674; Pub. L. 113–76, div. H, title III, § 307(a), , 128 Stat. 399.)

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