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[CITE: 29USC780a]

 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
 CHAPTER 16--VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION AND OTHER REHABILITATION SERVICES
 
              SUBCHAPTER IV--NATIONAL COUNCIL ON DISABILITY
 
Sec. 780a. Independent status of National Council on the 
        Handicapped
        

(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.

(Pub. L. 98-221, title I, Sec. 141(b), Feb. 22, 1984, 98 Stat. 26.)

                       References in Text

    The Rehabilitation Act of 1973, referred to in par. (2), is Pub. L. 
93-112, Sept. 26, 1973, 87 Stat. 355, as amended, which is classified 
generally to this chapter (Sec. 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 Rehabilitation Act of 1973 which comprises this 
chapter.

                         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, 
Sec. 205(b), Nov. 7, 1988, 102 Stat. 3310.
