---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 1161i–3"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "1161i–3"
heading: "State Task Force establishment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/1161i-3"
units:
  - "Chapter 28 — Higher Education Resources and Student Assistance"
  - "Subchapter IX — Additional Programs"
  - "Part I — Early Childhood Education Professional Development and Career Task Force"
---

# §1161i–3. State Task Force establishment

- (a) **State Task Force established—** The Governor of a [State](/usc/20/1003.md?p=21-A) receiving a grant under this part shall establish, or designate an existing entity to serve as, the [State](/usc/20/1003.md?p=21-A) Early Childhood Education Professional Development and Career Task Force (hereafter in this part referred to as the “[State](/usc/20/1003.md?p=21-A) Task Force”).
- (b) **Membership—** The [State](/usc/20/1003.md?p=21-A) Task Force shall include a representative of a [State](/usc/20/1003.md?p=21-A) agency, an [institution of higher education](/usc/20/1001.md?p=a) (including an associate or a baccalaureate degree granting [institution of higher education](/usc/20/1001.md?p=a)), an [early childhood education program](/usc/20/1003.md?p=8), a [nonprofit](/usc/20/1003.md?p=13) early childhood organization, a statewide early childhood workforce scholarship or supplemental initiative, the [State](/usc/20/1003.md?p=21-A) Head Start collaboration director, and any other entity or individual the Governor determines appropriate.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–329, title VIII, § 814, as added Pub. L. 110–315, title VIII, § 801, Aug. 14, 2008, 122 Stat. 3398.)