§ 3473. Reorganization of Department

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. 1979

   Department of Education Organization Act

   Pub. L. 96–88 title IV § 413 · 93 Stat. 668

   Enacted · 20 U.S.C. § 3473

   Pub. L. 96–88, title IV, § 413, Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 684

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 96–88, title IV, § 413, Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 684

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 413. reorganization (a) The Secretary is authorized, subject to the requirements of section 202(f), to allocate or reallocate functions among the officers of the Department, and to establish, consolidate, alter, or discontinue such organizational entities within the Department as may be necessary or appropriate, but the authority of the Secretary under this subsection does not extend to— (1) any office, bureau, unit, or other entity transferred to the Department and established by statute or any function vested by statute in such an entity or officer of such an entity, except as provided in subsection (b); (2) the abolition of organizational entities established by this Act; or (3) the alteration of the delegation of functions to any specific organizational entity required by this Act. (b) (1) The Secretary may, in accordance with paragraph (2) of this subsection, consolidate, alter, or discontinue any of the following statutory entities, or reallocate any functions vested by statute in the following statutory entities: (A) the Office of Bilingual Education; (B) the Teacher Corps; (C) the Community College Unit; (D) the National Center for Education Statistics; (E) the National Institute of Education; (F) the Office of Environmental Education; (G) the Office of Consumers’ Education; (H) the Office of Libraries and Learning Resources; (I) the Office of Indian Education; (J) the Office of Career Education; (K) the Office of Non-Public Education; (L) the bureau for the education and training for the handicapped: (M) the Institute of Museum Services; and (N) the administrative units for guidance and counseling programs, the veterans’ cost of instruction program, and the program for the gifted and talented children. (2) The Secretary may alter, consolidate, or discontinue any organizational Congressional committees, notice. entity continued within the Department and described in paragraph (1) of this subsection or reallocate any function vested by statute in such an entity, upon the expiration of a period of ninety days after the receipt by the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Education and Labor of the House of Representatives of notice given by the Secretary containing a full and complete statement of the action proposed to be taken pursuant to this subsection and the facts and circumstances relied upon in support of such proposed action.

2. 1980

   Arts and Humanities Act of 1980

   Pub. L. 96–496 title II § 202 · 94 Stat. 2583

   1. Redesignated · 20 U.S.C. § 3473(b)(1)

      Pub. L. 96–496 redesignated subpar. (N) as (M)

   2. Struck · 20 U.S.C. § 3473(b)(1)

      Pub. L. 96–496 struck out former subpar. (M), which authorized the Secretary to reallocate the functions or to alter or discontinue the Institute of Museum Services

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 96–496 redesignated subpar. (N) as (M) and struck out former subpar. (M), which authorized the Secretary to reallocate the functions or to alter or discontinue the Institute of Museum Services.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 202. amendments to department of education organization act Section 413(b)(1) of the Department of Education Organization Act (20 U.S.C. 3473(b)(1)) is amended by inserting “and” at the end of subparagraph (L), by striking out subparagraph (M), and by redesignating subparagraph (N) as subparagraph (M).

3. 1996

   Amber Hagerman Child Protection Act of 1996

   Pub. L. 104–208 div. A title I § 101(e)(tVII)(s709)(c) · 110 Stat. 3009

   1. Redesignated · 20 U.S.C. § 3473(b)(1)(H)(M)

      Pub. L. 104–208 redesignated subpars. (I) to (M) as (H) to (L), respectively

   2. Struck · 20 U.S.C. § 3473(b)(1)(H)(M)

      Pub. L. 104–208 struck out former subpar. (H) which authorized Secretary to consolidate, alter, discontinue, or reallocate any functions vested by statute in Office of Libraries and Learning Resources

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsec. (b)(1)(H) to (M). Pub. L. 104–208 redesignated subpars. (I) to (M) as (H) to (L), respectively, and struck out former subpar. (H) which authorized Secretary to consolidate, alter, discontinue, or reallocate any functions vested by statute in Office of Libraries and Learning Resources.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 101. (a) For programs, projects or activities in the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997, provided as follows, to be effective as if it had been enacted into law as the regular appropriations Act:

4. 2002

   Pub. L. 107–110 title X § 1072(b) · 115 Stat. 1425

   Substituted · 20 U.S.C. § 3473(b)(1)(A)

   Pub. L. 107–110 substituted “Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement, and Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students” for “Office of Bilingual Education”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsec. (b)(1)(A). Pub. L. 107–110 substituted “Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement, and Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students” for “Office of Bilingual Education”.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (b) Renaming of Office.— The Department of Education Organization Act (20 U.S.C. 3401 et seq.) is amended by striking 20 USC 3420, 3423d, 3473. “Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs” and “Office of Bilingual Education” each place either such term appears and inserting “Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement, and Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students”.

   Effective date note
   Amendment by Pub. L. 107–110 effective Jan. 8, 2002, except with respect to certain noncompetitive programs and competitive programs, see section 5 of Pub. L. 107–110, set out as an Effective Date note under section 6301 of this title.

6 of 6 references resolved to an enrolled provision