§1070b — Title 20 Education | U.S. Code

§1070b Purpose; appropriations authorized

Title 20 › Chapter CHAPTER 28— - HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCES AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER IV— - STUDENT ASSISTANCE › Part Part A— - Grants to Students in Attendance at Institutions of Higher Education › Subpart subpart 3— - federal supplemental educational opportunity grants › § 1070b

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Provides extra grants through colleges and universities to help qualified students with financial need get postsecondary education under the rules in part F. Allows the Secretary to pay colleges that agreed under section 1070b–2(a) to give these undergraduate supplemental grants. Congress may appropriate whatever sums are needed for fiscal year 2009 and each of the five succeeding fiscal years. Money appropriated for any fiscal year can be used to pay institutions until the end of the second fiscal year after the year the money was appropriated.

Title 20, §1070b

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(a)It is the purpose of this subpart to provide, through institutions of higher education, supplemental grants to assist in making available the benefits of postsecondary education to qualified students who demonstrate financial need in accordance with the provisions of part F of this subchapter.

(b)(1)For the purpose of enabling the Secretary to make payments to institutions of higher education which have made agreements with the Secretary in accordance with section 1070b–2(a) of this title, for use by such institutions for payments to undergraduate students of supplemental grants awarded to them under this subpart, there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 2009 and each of the five succeeding fiscal years.

(2)Sums appropriated pursuant to this subsection for any fiscal year shall be available for payments to institutions until the end of the second fiscal year succeeding the fiscal year for which such sums were appropriated.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 1070b, Pub. L. 89–329, title IV, § 413A, as added Pub. L. 92–318, title I, § 131(b)(1), June 23, 1972, 86 Stat. 251; amended Pub. L. 94–482, title I, § 122(a), Oct. 12, 1976, 90 Stat. 2094; Pub. L. 96–49, § 5(a)(3), Aug. 13, 1979, 93 Stat. 352; Pub. L. 96–374, title IV, § 403(a), (b), title XIII, § 1391(a)(1), Oct. 3, 1980, 94 Stat. 1404, 1405, 1503, related to program of supplemental educational opportunity grants purpose, authorization of appropriations, and initial year payment provisions, prior to the general revision of this part by Pub. L. 99–498.

Amendments

2008—Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 110–315 substituted “such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 2009 and each of the five succeeding fiscal years” for “$675,000,000 for fiscal year 1999 and such sums as may be necessary for the 4 succeeding fiscal years”. 1998—Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 105–244 substituted “1999” for “1993”. 1992—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 102–325 amended subsec. (b) generally, substituting present provisions for provisions authorizing appropriation of $490,000,000 for fiscal year 1987 and such sums as necessary for 4 succeeding fiscal years.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1998 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 105–244 effective Oct. 1, 1998, except as otherwise provided in Pub. L. 105–244, see section 3 of Pub. L. 105–244, set out as a note under section 1001 of this title.