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Title 20, EducationRelease 119-102

§3483a Department of Education Nonrecurring Expenses Fund

Title 20 › CHAPTER 48 — DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION › SUBCHAPTER IV — ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS › Part B — General Administrative Provisions › § 3483a

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Creates the Department of Education Nonrecurring Expenses Fund in the U.S. Treasury. Leftover expired discretionary money that was given to the Department from the Treasury’s General Fund for this or later fiscal years can be moved into the Fund, but only within five fiscal years after the last year those amounts were available. Money in the Fund stays available until spent and, with approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), can be used for information and business technology upgrades and needed facilities work. The Department may obligate Fund money only after telling the House and Senate Appropriations Committees at least 30 days before the specific projects.

Full Legal Text

Title 20, §3483a

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There is hereby established in the Treasury of the United States a fund to be known as the “Department of Education Nonrecurring Expenses Fund” (the Fund): Provided, That unobligated balances of expired discretionary funds appropriated for this or any succeeding fiscal year from the General Fund of the Treasury to the Department of Education by this or any other Act may be transferred (not later than the end of the fifth fiscal year after the last fiscal year for which such funds are available for the purposes for which appropriated) into the Fund: Provided further, That amounts deposited in the Fund shall be available until expended, and in addition to such other funds as may be available for such purposes, for information and business technology system modernization and facilities infrastructure improvements necessary for the operation of the Department, subject to approval by the Office of Management and Budget: Provided further, That amounts in the Fund may be obligated only after the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate are notified at least 30 days in advance of the specific information and business technology system modernization project or facility infrastructure improvement obligations planned for such amounts.

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This Act, referred to in text, is div. H of Pub. L. 116–260, Dec. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 1547, known as the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2021. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. Codification Section was enacted as part of the Department of Education Appropriations Act, 2021, and not as part of the Department of Education Organization Act which comprises this chapter.

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Citation

20 U.S.C. § 3483a

Title 20, Education

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102