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Title 20 — EducationRelease 119-73not60

§3501 Transfer and Allocation of Appropriations and Personnel

Title 20 › Chapter 48— DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION › Subchapter V— TRANSITIONAL, SAVINGS, AND CONFORMING PROVISIONS › § 3501

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Transfers the staff, assets, debts, contracts, property, records, and unused appropriations or other funds tied to offices or parts of offices moved by this chapter to the Secretary, under section 1531 of title 31. Any unused funds moved must be used only for the purposes they were originally approved and appropriated for. Positions that a law or reorganization plan specifically names to carry out the moved functions, the people in those positions on the chapter’s effective date, and people authorized to be paid at Executive Schedule level IV or V on May 4, 1980 (5 U.S.C. 5315–5316), must follow the rules in section 3503 of this title.

Full Legal Text

Title 20, §3501

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(a)Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the personnel employed in connection with, and the assets, liabilities, contracts, property, records, and unexpended balance of appropriations, authorizations, allocations, and other funds employed, held, used, arising from, available to, or to be made available in connection with the functions and offices, or portions thereof transferred by this chapter, subject to section 1531 of title 31, shall be transferred to the Secretary for appropriate allocation. Unexpended funds transferred pursuant to this subsection shall be used only for the purposes for which the funds were originally authorized and appropriated.
(b)Positions expressly specified by statute or reorganization plan to carry out functions or offices transferred by this chapter, personnel occupying those positions on the effective date of this chapter, and personnel authorized to receive compensation in such positions at the rate prescribed for offices and positions at level IV or V of the Executive Schedule (5 U.S.C. 5315–5316) on May 4, 1980, shall be subject to the provisions of section 3503 of this title.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification In subsec. (a), “section 1531 of title 31” substituted for “section 202 of the Budget and Accounting Procedures Act of 1950 [31 U.S.C. 581c]” on authority of Pub. L. 97–258, § 4(b), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1067, the first section of which enacted Title 31, Money and Finance. 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.

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Citation

20 U.S.C. § 3501

Title 20 — Education

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60