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title: "42 U.S.C. § 1759"
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# 42 U.S.C. § 1759 - Direct disbursement to schools by Secretary
## Text
(a) The Secretary shall withhold funds payable to a State under this chapter and disburse the funds directly to schools, institutions, or service institutions within the State for the purposes authorized by this chapter to the extent that the Secretary has so withheld and disbursed such funds continuously since October 1, 1980, but only to such extent (except as otherwise required by subsection (b)). Any funds so withheld and disbursed by the Secretary shall be used for the same purposes, and shall be subject to the same conditions, as applicable to a State disbursing funds made available under this chapter. If the Secretary is administering (in whole or in part) any program authorized under this chapter, the State in which the Secretary is administering the program may, upon request to the Secretary, assume administration of that program.
(b) If a State educational agency is not permitted by law to disburse the funds paid to it under this chapter to any of the nonpublic schools in the State, the Secretary shall disburse the funds directly to such schools within the State for the same purposes and subject to the same conditions as are authorized or required with respect to the disbursements to public schools within the State by the State educational agency.
(June 4, 1946, ch. 281, § 10, 60 Stat. 233; Pub. L. 87823, § 4, Oct. 15, 1962, 76 Stat. 945; Pub. L. 91248, § 1(b), May 14, 1970, 84 Stat. 208; Pub. L. 93433, § 4(d), Sept. 26, 1972, 86 Stat. 726; Pub. L. 93150, § 3(b), Nov. 7, 1973, 87 Stat. 562; Pub. L. 94105, § 7, Oct. 7, 1975, 89 Stat. 514; Pub. L. 9735, title VIII, § 817(a), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 531.)
## Notes
Editorial Notes
Amendments1981—Pub. L. 9735 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), substituted provisions relating to disbursement of funds directly to schools, institutions, or service institutions for the purposes authorized by this chapter, for provisions relating to disbursement of funds directly to schools for the purposes and subject to conditions authorized or required for disbursements to schools within the State by the State educational agency, and added subsec. (b). 1975—Pub. L. 94105 altered provisions of section to accommodate authorization of direct payments to private nonprofit schools and institutions in conformity with revised allocation method for school lunch funds and expanded definition of “school” to include any public or licensed nonprofit residential child care institution, including but not limited to, orphanages and homes for the mentally retarded. 1973—Pub. L. 93150 inserted in proviso reference to section 1759a of this title. 1972—Pub. L. 92433 inserted proviso that beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, the Secretary shall make payments directly to the nonprofit private schools for the purpose of section 1753 of this title under the same conditions as are prescribed for State educational agencies. 1970—Pub. L. 91248 provided that data upon which State apportionments are calculated is the program year completed two years immediately prior to the fiscal year for which the appropriation is requested. 1962—Pub. L. 87823 substituted “an amount which bears the same ratio to such funds as the number of lunches, consisting of a combination of foods and meeting the minimum requirements prescribed by the Secretary pursuant to section 1758 of this title, served in the preceding fiscal year by all nonprofit private schools participating in the program under this chapter within the State, as determined by the Secretary, bears to the participation rate for the State” for “the same proportion of the funds as the number of children between the ages of 5 and 17, inclusive, attending nonprofit private schools within the State, is of the total number of persons of those ages within the State attending school”.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date of 1981 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 9735 effective Oct. 1, 1981, see section 820(a)(4) of Pub. L. 9735, set out as a note under section 1753 of this title.