20 U.S.C. § 3427
Coordinator for the outlying areas
United States · Title 20 — EDUCATION · Status: effective
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The Secretary shall designate an office of the Department to coordinate the activities of the Department as they relate to the outlying areas.
Not later than 90 days after January 8, 2002, the head of the office designated under subsection (a) shall appoint a coordinator for the outlying areas, who shall be a person with substantial experience in the operation of Federal programs in the outlying areas.
The coordinator for the outlying areas shall—
As used in this section, the term “outlying areas” includes Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands, but does not include the freely associated states of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.
- An act to establish a Department of Education, and for other purposes.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- No Child Left Behind Act of 2001