---
type: "LegalText"
title: "29 U.S.C. § 796f–5"
description: "“Eligible agency” defined"
jurisdiction: "us"
corpus: "united_states_code"
kind: "code_section"
title_number: 29
title_name: "LABOR"
chapter_number: "16"
chapter_name: "VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION AND OTHER REHABILITATION SERVICES"
section: "796f–5"
citation: "29 U.S.C. § 796f–5"
status: "current"
release_point: "119-100"
release_date: "2026-06-26"
source: "official"
source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc29@119-100.zip"
source_identifier: "/us/usc/t29/s796f–5"
source_file: "data/legal/raw/us/code/title-29/usc29.xml"
source_hash: "9ffef257f37234786c81a17bee952d374292a1227b4f7a83beac7762f8fee750"
raw_snapshot_hash: "123f65eaf0f6719b01d66f4a47cd03d5134b66fbd92ae96d7387b67454b98476"
text_hash: "a1c7190b550bb8881c56782092f9f06118dfa6d00fc078885eaabdc83b371136"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
confidence: "official"
tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
---

# 29 U.S.C. § 796f–5 - “Eligible agency” defined

## Text

As used in this subpart, the term “eligible agency” means a consumer-controlled, community-based, cross-disability, nonresidential private nonprofit agency.

(Pub. L. 93–112, title VII, § 726, as added Pub. L. 105–220, title IV, § 410, Aug. 7, 1998, 112 Stat. 1237.)

## Notes

Editorial Notes

Prior ProvisionsA prior section 796f–5, Pub. L. 93–112, title VII, § 726, as added Pub. L. 102–569, title VII, § 701(2), Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4464, defined “eligible agency”, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 105–220.