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Title 20 — Education

Part B · Chapter 48 — Department of Education

§ 3474. Rules and regulations

Statutory text

The Secretary is authorized to prescribe such rules and regulations as the Secretary determines necessary or appropriate to administer and manage the functions of the Secretary or the 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. Department of Education Organization Act

    Pub. L. 96–88 title IV § 414 · 93 Stat. 668

    Enacted · 20 U.S.C. § 3474

    Pub. L. 96–88, title IV, § 414, Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 685

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 96–88, title IV, § 414, Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 685

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 414. rules (a) The Secretary is authorized to prescribe such rules and 20 USC 3474. regulations as the Secretary determines necessary or appropriate to administer and manage the functions of the Secretary or the Department. (b) The Secretary, in promulgating rules and regulations as authorized by statute, shall prescribe such rules and regulations in accordance with chapter 5 of title 5, United States Code. Section 431 of the 5 USC 500 et seq. 20 USC 1232. General Education Provisions Act also shall apply to such rules and regulations to the extent applicable immediately prior to the effective date of this Act, and to rules and regulations promulgated with respect to programs transferred under sections 301(a) (1), (2), and (4), 302,303,304,305, and 306.

  2. Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986

    Pub. L. 99–145 title XII § 1204(a)(5) · 99 Stat. 583

    Struck · 20 U.S.C. § 3474(b)

    Pub. L. 99–145 struck out reference to section 3442 of this title

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 99–145 struck out reference to section 3442 of this title.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (5) Section 414(b) of such Act (20 U.S.C. 3474(b)) is amended by striking out “302,”.

  3. Improving America’s Schools Act of 1994

    Pub. L. 103–382 title II § 271(d)(1) · 108 Stat. 3518

    Struck · 20 U.S.C. § 3474

    Pub. L. 103–382 struck out subsec. (a) designation and subsec. (b) which read as follows: “The Secretary, in promulgating rules and regulations as authorized by statute, shall prescribe such rules and regulations in accordance with chapter 5 of title 5. Section 1232 of this title also shall apply to such rules and regulations to the extent applicable immediately prior to May 4, 1980, and to rules and regulations promulgated with respect to programs transferred under sections 3441(a)(1), (2), and (4), 3443, 3444, 3445, and 3446 of this title.”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 103–382 struck out subsec. (a) designation and subsec. (b) which read as follows: “The Secretary, in promulgating rules and regulations as authorized by statute, shall prescribe such rules and regulations in accordance with chapter 5 of title 5. Section 1232 of this title also shall apply to such rules and regulations to the extent applicable immediately prior to May 4, 1980, and to rules and regulations promulgated with respect to programs transferred under sections 3441(a)(1), (2), and (4), 3443, 3444, 3445, and 3446 of this title.”

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (1) in section 414 (20 U.S.C. 1226a)— (A) by striking “(a)”; and (B) by striking subsection (b); and

3 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments1985–1994 · 2 rounds

1994

Pub. L. 103–382 struck out subsec. (a) designation and subsec. (b) which read as follows: “The Secretary, in promulgating rules and regulations as authorized by statute, shall prescribe such rules and regulations in accordance with chapter 5 of title 5. Section 1232 of this title also shall apply to such rules and regulations to the extent applicable immediately prior to , and to rules and regulations promulgated with respect to programs transferred under sections 3441(a)(1), (2), and (4), 3443, 3444, 3445, and 3446 of this title.”

1985

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 99–145 struck out reference to section 3442 of this title.

Credits

1979–1994 · 3 acts
  1. 1979Pub. L. 96–88, title IV, § 414, , 93 Stat. 685
  2. 1985Pub. L. 99–145, title XII, § 1204(a)(5), , 99 Stat. 720
  3. 1994Pub. L. 103–382, title II, § 271(d)(1), , 108 Stat. 3930.
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(Pub. L. 96–88, title IV, § 414, , 93 Stat. 685; Pub. L. 99–145, title XII, § 1204(a)(5), , 99 Stat. 720; Pub. L. 103–382, title II, § 271(d)(1), , 108 Stat. 3930.)

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