---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 C.F.R. § 104.54"
title: "34"
number: "104.54"
heading: "Education of institutionalized persons."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/34/104.54"
---

# §104.54. Education of institutionalized persons.


A recipient to which this subpart applies and that operates or supervises a program or activity that provides aid, benefits or services for persons who are institutionalized because of handicap shall ensure that each qualified handicapped person, as defined in [§ 104.3(k)(2)](/cfr/34/104.3.md?p=k-2), in its program or activity is provided an appropriate education, as defined in [§ 104.33(b)](/cfr/34/104.33.md?p=b). Nothing in this section shall be interpreted as altering in any way the obligations of recipients under subpart D.


## Notes

### Amendments

[45 FR 30936, May 9, 1980, as amended at 65 FR 68055, Nov. 13, 2000]

### Authority

Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1405; 29 U.S.C. 794; Pub. L. 111-256, 124 Stat. 2643.

### Source

Source: 45 FR 30936, May 9, 1980, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[45 FR 30936, May 9, 1980, as amended at 65 FR 68055, Nov. 13, 2000]