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Title 20, EducationRelease 119-110

§4359b Research Priorities

Title 20 › CHAPTER 55 — EDUCATION OF THE DEAF › SUBCHAPTER II — GENERAL PROVISIONS › § 4359b

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Gallaudet and NTID must publish deafness research priorities that reflect public input from consumers, groups, and federal program heads. Gallaudet’s priorities must include K–12 work. Each must submit yearly reports by January 10 to the Secretary, the House Committee on Education and Labor, and the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reports must summarize the public input and responses and list research with start/end dates, projected cost and funding sources, and any products from research completed in the prior fiscal year.

Full Legal Text

Title 20, §4359b

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(a)Research priorities
Gallaudet University and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf shall each establish and disseminate priorities for their national mission with respect to deafness related research, development, and demonstration activities, that reflect public input, through a process that includes consumers, constituent groups, and the heads of other federally funded programs. The priorities for the University shall include activities conducted as part of the University’s elementary and secondary education programs under section 4304 of this title.
(b)Research reports
The University and NTID shall each prepare and submit an annual research report, to the Secretary, the Committee on Education and Labor of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate, not later than January 10 of each year, that shall include—
(1)a summary of the public input received as part of the establishment and dissemination of priorities required by subsection (a), and the University’s and NTID’s response to the input; and
(2)a summary description of the research undertaken by the University and NTID, the start and projected end dates for each research project, the projected cost and source or sources of funding for each project, and any products resulting from research completed in the prior fiscal year.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 210 of Pub. L. 99–371 was renumbered section 209 and is classified to section 4359a of this title. Another prior section 210 of title II of Pub. L. 99–371, formerly title IV, § 410, Aug. 4, 1986, 100 Stat. 794; renumbered title II, § 210, Pub. L. 102–241, title I, § 101(b)(5), (6), Oct. 16, 1992, 106 Stat. 2151, repealed sections 681 to 685, 691 to 691g, 693 to 693b, and 695 to 695c of this title and provisions set out as notes under section 681 and 693 of this title, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 102–421, title I, § 139, Oct. 16, 1992, 106 Stat. 2163.

Amendments

2008—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 110–315 substituted “Committee on Education and Labor of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate” for “Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Committee on Education and Labor of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Education and the Workforce of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Eighteenth Congress, Jan. 9, 2023.

Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1998, except as otherwise provided in Pub. L. 105–244, see section 3 of Pub. L. 105–244, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1998 Amendment note under section 1001 of this title.

Reference

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Citation

20 U.S.C. § 4359b

Title 20, Education

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110