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Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-110

§6106 Study of Discrimination Based on Age

Title 42 › CHAPTER 76 — AGE DISCRIMINATION IN FEDERALLY ASSISTED PROGRAMS › § 6106

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Commission on Civil Rights must study age-based discrimination in programs that get federal money. It must find and name any such programs where qualified people are kept out, denied benefits, or treated unfairly because of their age. The Commission must hold public hearings to hear from people and from federal departments and agencies about age discrimination and whether age-based rules are reasonable. It can hire experts by grant or contract, publish their work, and use unpaid volunteers. Not later than two years after November 28, 1975, the Commission must send a report with its findings and any recommended changes to the President and to Congress, and give copies to any federal department or agency it mentions. It may give information and technical help, on request, for a ninety-day period following the transmittal of its report. Any department or agency named must send its comments and recommendations to the President and to the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources and the House Committee on Education and Labor within forty-five working days of getting the report. Department heads must fully cooperate and provide data and documents the Commission asks for. Money may be appropriated as needed to carry out this work.

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Title 42, §6106

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(a)Study by Commission on Civil Rights
The Commission on Civil Rights shall (1) undertake a study of unreasonable discrimination based on age in programs and activities receiving Federal financial assistance; and (2) identify with particularity any such federally assisted program or activity in which there is found evidence of persons who are otherwise qualified being, on the basis of age, excluded from participation in, denied the benefits of, or subjected to discrimination under such program or activity.
(b)Public hearings
As part of the study required by this section, the Commission shall conduct public hearings to elicit the views of interested parties, including Federal departments and agencies, on issues relating to age discrimination in programs and activities receiving Federal financial assistance, and particularly with respect to the reasonableness of distinguishing, on the basis of age, among potential participants in, or beneficiaries of, specific federally assisted programs.
(c)Publication of results of analyses, research and studies by independent experts; services of voluntary or uncompensated personnel
The Commission is authorized to obtain, through grant or contract, analyses, research and studies by independent experts of issues relating to age discrimination and to publish the results thereof. For purposes of the study required by this section, the Commission may accept and utilize the services of voluntary or uncompensated personnel, without regard to the provisions of section 105(b) of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 (42 U.S.C. 1975d(b)).
(d)Report to President and Congress; copies to affected Federal departments and agencies; information and technical assistance
Not later than two years after November 28, 1975, the Commission shall transmit a report of its findings and its recommendations for statutory changes (if any) and administrative action, including suggested general regulations, to the Congress and to the President and shall provide a copy of its report to the head of each Federal department and agency with respect to which the Commission makes findings or recommendations. The Commission is authorized to provide, upon request, information and technical assistance regarding its findings and recommendations to Congress, to the President, and to the heads of Federal departments and agencies for a ninety-day period following the transmittal of its report.
(e)Comments and recommendations of Federal departments and agencies; submission to President and Congressional committees
Not later than forty-five working days after receiving a copy of the report required by subsection (d), each Federal department or agency with respect to which the Commission makes findings or recommendations shall submit its comments and recommendations regarding such report to the President and to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Education and Labor of the House of Representatives.
(f)Cooperation of Federal departments and agencies with Commission
The head of each Federal department or agency shall cooperate in all respects with the Commission with respect to the study required by subsection (a), and shall provide to the Commission such data, reports, and documents in connection with the subject matter of such study as the Commission may request.
(g)Authorization of appropriations
There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.

Legislative History

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References in Text

section 105(b) of the Civil Rights Act of 1957, referred to in subsec. (c), is section 105(b) of Pub. L. 85–315, pt. I, Sept. 9, 1957, 71 Stat. 636, which was classified to section 1975d(b) of this title and was omitted from the Code. For further details, see Codification note set out preceding section 1975 of this title. Similar provisions are contained in section 4(c) of the Civil Rights Commission Act of 1983, Pub. L. 98–183, Nov. 30, 1983, 97 Stat. 1304, as amended, which is classified to section 1975b(c) of this title.

Amendments

1977—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 95–65 substituted “two years” for “eighteen months” and authorized the Commission to provide information and technical assistance regarding its findings and recommendations to Congress, the President, and heads of Federal departments and agencies for a ninety-day period following the transmittal of its report.

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. Committee on Labor and Human Resources of Senate changed to Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of Senate by Senate Resolution No. 20, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Jan. 19, 1999. Previously, Committee on Human Resources of Senate changed to Committee on Labor and Human Resources of Senate effective Mar. 7, 1979, by Senate Resolution No. 30, 96th Congress. See Rule XXV of Standing Rules of Senate adopted Nov. 14, 1979. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare of Senate abolished and replaced by Committee on Human Resources of Senate, effective Feb. 11, 1977. See Rule XXV of Standing Rules of Senate, as amended by Senate Resolution No. 4 (popularly cited as the “Committee System Reorganization

Amendments

of 1977”), approved Feb. 4, 1977.

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42 U.S.C. § 6106

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110