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# 20 U.S.C. § 5981 - Short title

## Text

This subchapter may be cited as the “Minority-Focused Civics Education Act of 1994”.

(Pub. L. 103–227, title VIII, § 801, Mar. 31, 1994, 108 Stat. 209.)