 
           CHAPTER 31--GENERAL PROVISIONS CONCERNING EDUCATION
 
              SUBCHAPTER II--APPROPRIATIONS AND EVALUATIONS
 
                         Part 1--Appropriations
 
Sec. 1223. Forward funding

    (a) To the end of affording the responsible Federal, State, and 
local officers adequate notice of available Federal financial assistance 
for carrying out ongoing education activities and projects, 
appropriations for grants, contracts, or other payments under any 
applicable program are authorized to be included in the appropriations 
Act for the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year during which such 
activities and projects shall be carried out.
    (b) In order to effect a transition to the timing of appropriation 
action authorized by subsection (a) of this section, the application of 
this section may result in the enactment, in a fiscal year, of separate 
appropriations for an applicable program (whether in the same 
appropriations Act or otherwise) for two consecutive fiscal years.

(Pub. L. 90-247, title IV, Sec. 420, formerly Sec. 403, Jan. 2, 1968, 81 
Stat. 814; Pub. L. 91-230, title IV, Sec. 401(a)(4), Apr. 13, 1970, 84 
Stat. 165; renumbered Sec. 412, Pub. L. 92-318, title III, 
Sec. 301(a)(1), June 23, 1972, 86 Stat. 326; renumbered Sec. 411, Pub. 
L. 93-380, title V, Sec. 506(a)(1)(C), Aug. 21, 1974, 88 Stat. 562; 
renumbered Sec. 420 and amended Pub. L. 103-382, title II, 
Secs. 212(b)(1), 231, Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3913, 3914.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 420 of Pub. L. 90-247 was renumbered section 426, 
and is classified to section 1228 of this title.


                               Amendments

    1994--Pub. L. 103-382, Sec. 231, amended section generally. Prior to 
amendment, section read as follows: ``To the end of affording the 
responsible State, local, and Federal officers concerned adequate notice 
of available Federal financial assistance for education, appropriations 
for grants, contracts, or other payments under any applicable program 
are authorized to be included in the appropriation Act for the fiscal 
year preceding the fiscal year for which they are available for 
obligation. In order to effect a transition to this method of timing 
appropriation action, the preceding sentence shall apply notwithstanding 
that its initial application under such program will result in the 
enactment in the same year (whether in the same appropriation Act or 
otherwise) of two separate appropriations, one for the then current 
fiscal year and one for the succeeding fiscal year.''
    1970--Pub. L. 91-230 substituted ``applicable program'' and ``under 
such program'' for ``Act referred to in section 1221 of this title'' and 
``under any such Act'', respectively.


  National Policy With Respect to Advance Funding of Education Programs

    Section 802 of Pub. L. 93-380 provided that: ``The Congress declares 
it to be the policy of the United States to implement immediately and 
continually section 411 [now 420] of the General Education Provisions 
Act [this section], relating to advance funding for education programs, 
so as to afford responsible State, local, and Federal officers adequate 
notice of available Federal financial assistance for education 
authorized under this [Act, Pub. L. 93-380, see Short Title of 1974 
Amendment note set out under section 6301 of this title] and other Acts 
of Congress.''
    Provision effective on and after sixtieth day after Aug. 21, 1974, 
see section 2(c) of Pub. L. 93-380, set out as an Effective Date note 
under section 1221-1 of this title.
