---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 C.F.R. § 33.19"
title: "34"
number: "33.19"
heading: "Prehearing conferences."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/34/33.19"
---

# §33.19. Prehearing conferences.

- (a) The ALJ may schedule perhearing conferences as appropriate.
- (b) Upon the motion of any party, the ALJ shall schedule at least one perhearing conference at a reasonable time in advance of the hearing.
- (c) The ALJ may use prehearing conferences to discuss the following:
  - (1) **Simplification of the issues.**
  - (2) The necessity or desirability of amendments to the pleadings, including the need for a more definite statement.
  - (3) **Stipulations, admissions of fact or as to the contents and authenticity of documents.**
  - (4) **Whether the parties can agree to submission of the case on a stipulated record.**
  - (5) Whether a party chooses to waive appearance at an oral hearing and to submit only documentary evidence (subject to the objection of other parties) and written argument.
  - (6) **Limitation of the number of witnesses.**
  - (7) **Scheduling dates for the exchange of witness lists and of proposed exhibits.**
  - (8) **Discovery.**
  - (9) **The time and place for the hearing.**
  - (10) Such other matters as may tend to expedite the fair and just disposition of the proceedings.
- (d) The ALJ may issue an order containing all matters agreed upon by the parties or ordered by the ALJ at a prehearing conference.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 31 U.S.C. 3801-3812.

### Source

Source: 53 FR 15675, May 3, 1988, unless otherwise noted.