Title 25 — Indians
Chapter 21 — Indian Child Welfare
§ 1961. Locally convenient day schools
Statutory text
Sense of Congress
It is the sense of Congress that the absence of locally convenient day schools may contribute to the breakup of Indian families.
Report to Congress; contents, etc.
The Secretary is authorized and directed to prepare, in consultation with appropriate agencies in the Department of Health and Human Services, a report on the feasibility of providing Indian children with schools located near their homes, and to submit such report to the Select Committee on Indian Affairs of the United States Senate and the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the United States House of Representatives within two years from . In developing this report the Secretary shall give particular consideration to the provision of educational facilities for children in the elementary grades.
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.
Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978
Pub. L. 95–608 title IV § 401 · 92 Stat. 3069
Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 1961
Pub. L. 95–608, title IV, § 401, Nov. 8, 1978, 92 Stat. 3078
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 95–608, title IV, § 401, Nov. 8, 1978, 92 Stat. 3078Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 401. (a) It is the sense of Congress that the absence of locally convenient day schools may contribute to the breakup of Indian families. (b) Report to congressional committees. The Secretary is authorized and directed to prepare, in consultation with appropriate agencies in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, a report on the feasibility of providing Indian children with schools located near their homes, and to submit such report to the Select Committee on Indian Affairs of the United States Senate and the Committee on Interior and Insular Affaire of the United States House of Representatives within two years from the date of this Act. In developing this report the Secretary shall give particular consideration to the provision of educational facilities for children in the elementary grades.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
“Department of Health and Human Services” substituted for “Department of Health, Education, and Welfare” in subsec. (b), pursuant to section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96–88 which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education.
Select Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate redesignated Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate by section 25 of Senate Resolution No. 71, , One Hundred Third Congress.
Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of Representatives changed to Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives on , by House Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Third Congress.
Credits
1978–1979 · 2 acts
- 1978Pub. L. 95–608, title IV, § 401, , 92 Stat. 3078
- 1979Pub. L. 96–88, title V, § 509(b), , 93 Stat. 695.
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(Pub. L. 95–608, title IV, § 401, , 92 Stat. 3078; Pub. L. 96–88, title V, § 509(b), , 93 Stat. 695.)