2018 US Code
Title 20 - Education
Chapter 44 - Career and Technical Education
Sec. 2303 - Transition provisions

The Secretary shall take such steps as the Secretary determines to be appropriate to provide for the orderly transition to the authority of this chapter (as amended by the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006) from any authority under the provisions of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998, as in effect on the day before August 12, 2006. The Secretary shall give each eligible agency the opportunity to submit a transition plan for the first fiscal year following August 12, 2006.

(Pub. L. 88–210, §4, as added Pub. L. 109–270, §1(b), Aug. 12, 2006, 120 Stat. 690; amended Pub. L. 115–224, §8, July 31, 2018, 132 Stat. 1574.)

Pub. L. 115–224, §§4, 8, July 31, 2018, 132 Stat. 1564, 1574, made amendments to this section, effective July 1, 2019. After July 1, 2019, this section will read as follows:

The Secretary shall take such steps as are necessary to provide for the orderly transition to the authority of this chapter (as amended by the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act) from any authority under the provisions of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 2006, as in effect on the day before July 31, 2018. The Secretary shall give each eligible agency the opportunity to submit a transition plan for the first fiscal year following July 31, 2018.

See 2018 Amendment notes below.

This chapter (as amended by the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006), referred to in text, is this chapter as amended by Pub. L. 109–270, Aug. 12, 2006, 120 Stat. 683.

The Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998, as in effect on the day before August 12, 2006, referred to in text, means Pub. L. 88–210, as amended, which was classified generally to this chapter, prior to being amended generally and renamed the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 by Pub. L. 109–270, §1(b), Aug. 12, 2006, 120 Stat. 683.

A prior section 2303, Pub. L. 88–210, §4, as added Pub. L. 105–332, §1(b), Oct. 31, 1998, 112 Stat. 3082, related to transition provisions, prior to the general amendment of this chapter by Pub. L. 109–270.

Another prior section 2303, Pub. L. 101–392, §4, Sept. 25, 1990, 104 Stat. 758; Pub. L. 104–66, title I, §1041(f), Dec. 21, 1995, 109 Stat. 715, which related to the Interdepartmental Task Force on Vocational Education and Related Programs, was transferred to section 2308 of this title.

2018—Pub. L. 115–224, §8(1), substituted "are necessary" for "the Secretary determines to be appropriate".

Pub. L. 115–224, §8(2), substituted "as amended by the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act" for "as amended by the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006" and substituted "July 31, 2018" for "August 12, 2006" in two places.

Pub. L. 115–224, §8(3), substituted "Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 2006" for "Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998".

Amendment by Pub. L. 115–224 effective July 1, 2019, see section 4 of Pub. L. 115–224, set out as a note under section 2301 of this title.