PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

On February 22, 1984, the National Council on the Handicapped became an independent federal agency and is not part of the Department of Education or any other department. All Council duties that the Secretary of Education had the day before February 22, 1984, are moved to the Council’s Chairman, who will keep doing any duties he had under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 or other laws. Any law, reorganization plan, executive order, regulation, or official document that mentions the Department of Education or the Secretary about Council matters must be read as referring to the National Council on the Handicapped or its Chairman.

Title 29, §780a

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(1)Council as independent agency within Federal Government

Effective on February 22, 1984, the National Council on the Handicapped shall be an independent agency within the Federal Government and shall not be an agency within the Department of Education or any other department or agency of the United States.

(2)Transfer of functions to Council Chairman

There are transferred to the Chairman of the National Council on the Handicapped all functions relating to the Council which were vested in the Secretary of Education on the day before February 22, 1984. The Chairman of the National Council on the Handicapped shall continue to exercise all the functions under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 [29 U.S.C. 701 et seq.] or any other law or authority which the Chairman was performing before February 22, 1984.

(3)Changes in statutory and other references

References in any statute, reorganization plan, Executive order, regulation, or other official document or proceeding to the Department of Education or the Secretary of Education with respect to functions or activities relating to the National Council on the Handicapped shall be deemed to refer to the National Council on the Handicapped or the Chairman of the National Council on the Handicapped, respectively.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Rehabilitation Act of 1973, referred to in par. (2), is Pub. L. 93–112, Sept. 26, 1973, 87 Stat. 355, which is classified generally to this chapter (§ 701 et seq.). For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 701 of this title and Tables. Codification Section was enacted as part of the Rehabilitation

Amendments

of 1984, and not as part of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 which comprises this chapter.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

The National Council on the Handicapped was established by former section 780 of this title and was redesignated the National Council on Disability by an amendment to that section by Pub. L. 100–630, title II, § 205(b), Nov. 7, 1988, 102 Stat. 3310.

§780a Independent Status of National Council on the Handicapped