§712 — Title 29 Labor | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary of Education must create a central clearinghouse of information for people with disabilities. It must list where services and programs are and how to get them (including data from state workforce boards about Title I programs), share recent research and medical findings about disabilities (like causes, prevention, and treatments), and report current counts of people with disabilities and their needs. The Commissioner may help build a coordinated system inside the Department to collect and give this information to Congress, agencies, groups, people with disabilities and their families, professionals, and the public. The office doing this work will be called the "Office of Information and Resources for Individuals with Disabilities." Money can be appropriated as needed to carry out this work.

Title 29, §712

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(a)The Secretary of Education shall establish a central clearinghouse for information and resource availability for individuals with disabilities which shall provide information and data regarding—

(1)the location, provision, and availability of services and programs for individuals with disabilities, including such information and data provided by State workforce development boards regarding such services and programs authorized under title I of such Act; 11 See References in Text note below.

(2)research and recent medical and scientific developments bearing on disabilities (and their prevention, amelioration, causes, and cures); and

(3)the current numbers of individuals with disabilities and their needs.

(b)The Commissioner may assist the Secretary of Education to develop within the Department of Education a coordinated system of information and data retrieval, which will have the capacity and responsibility to provide information regarding the information and data referred to in subsection (a) of this section to the Congress, public and private agencies and organizations, individuals with disabilities and their families, professionals in fields serving such individuals, and the general public.

(c)The office established to carry out the provisions of this section shall be known as the “Office of Information and Resources for Individuals with Disabilities”.

(d)There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section such sums as may be necessary.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Such Act, referred to in subsec. (a)(1), probably means the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, which is Pub. L. 105–220, Aug. 7, 1998, 112 Stat. 936, and was repealed by Pub. L. 113–128, title V, §§ 506, 511(a),

July 22, 2014, 128 Stat. 1703, 1705, effective

July 1, 2015. Title I of the Act was classified principally to former chapter 30 (former § 2801 et seq.) of this title. Pursuant to section 3361(a) of this title, references to a provision of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 are deemed to refer to the corresponding provision of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, Pub. L. 113–128,

July 22, 2014, 128 Stat. 1425. For complete classification of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to the Code, see Tables. For complete classification of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 3101 of this title and Tables.

Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to this section were contained in section 714 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 105–220. A prior section 712, Pub. L. 93–112, § 13, as added Pub. L. 95–602, title I, § 122(a)(10), Nov. 6, 1978, 92 Stat. 2985; amended Pub. L. 98–221, title I, § 102, Feb. 22, 1984, 98 Stat. 17; Pub. L. 99–506, title I, § 105, Oct. 21, 1986, 100 Stat. 1812; Pub. L. 102–569, title I, §§ 102(p)(4), 106, Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4356, 4362; Pub. L. 104–66, title I, § 1042(c), Dec. 21, 1995, 109 Stat. 715, related to reports to President and Congress, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 105–220, title IV, § 403, Aug. 7, 1998, 112 Stat. 1093. See section 710 of this title. A prior section 15 of Pub. L. 93–112 was renumbered section 17 and is classified to section 714 of this title. Another prior section 15 of Pub. L. 93–112 was classified to section 714 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 105–220.

Amendments

2014—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 113–128, § 407(b)(1)(A), inserted “of Education” after “Secretary” in introductory and concluding provisions. Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 113–128, § 407(b)(1)(B), substituted “State workforce development boards” for “State workforce investment boards”. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 113–128, § 407(b)(2), substituted “Secretary of Education” for “Secretary”.

§712 Information Clearinghouse