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Title 20 — EducationRelease 119-73

§3508 Department of Health and Human Services

Title 20 › Chapter CHAPTER 48— - DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER V— - TRANSITIONAL, SAVINGS, AND CONFORMING PROVISIONS › § 3508

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

All mentions of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare are changed to the Department of Health and Human Services, and the titles of its officials are changed to match. Any law, rule, or official paper in force on May 4, 1980 that names the old department or its Secretary will be treated as naming the Department of Health and Human Services or the Secretary of Health and Human Services, unless the reference is to a function or office transferred to the Secretary or the Department under this chapter.

Full Legal Text

Title 20, §3508

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(a)The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare is hereby redesignated the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare or any other official of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare is hereby redesignated the Secretary or official, as appropriate, of Health and Human Services.
(b)Any reference to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, or any other official of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in any law, rule, regulation, certificate, directive, instruction, or other official paper in force on May 4, 1980, shall be deemed to refer and apply to the Department of Health and Human Services or the Secretary of Health and Human Services, respectively, except to the extent such reference is to a function or office transferred to the Secretary or the Department under this chapter.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification In subsec. (b), “May 4, 1980” substituted for “the

Effective Date

of this chapter” pursuant to section 601 of Pub. L. 96–88, set out as an

Effective Date

note under section 3401 of this title.

Amendments

2003—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 108–178 amended Pub. L. 107–217, § 6(b). See 2002 Amendment note below. 2002—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 107–217, § 6(b), which had repealed subsec. (b) of this section, was itself repealed by Pub. L. 108–178 insofar as it related to subsec. (b) of this section, and Pub. L. 108–178 further provided that subsec. (b) of this section was revived to read as if Pub. L. 107–217, § 6(b), had not been enacted.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2003 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 108–178 effective Aug. 21, 2002, see section 5 of Pub. L. 108–178, set out as a note under section 5334 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

20 U.S.C. § 3508

Title 20 — Education

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73