---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 1232b"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "1232b"
heading: "Labor standards"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/1232b"
units:
  - "Chapter 31 — General Provisions Concerning Education"
  - "Subchapter III — General Requirements and Conditions Concerning Operation and Administration of Education Programs: General Authority of Secretary"
  - "Part 2"
---

# §1232b. Labor standards


All laborers and mechanics employed by contractors or subcontractors on all construction and minor remodeling projects assisted under any [applicable program](/usc/20/1221.md?p=c-1) shall be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing on similar construction and minor remodeling in the locality as determined by the [Secretary](/usc/20/1221.md?p=c-4) of Labor in accordance with sections 3141–3144, 3146, and 3147 of title 40. The [Secretary](/usc/20/1221.md?p=c-4) of Labor shall have, with respect to the labor standards specified in this section, the authority and functions set forth in Reorganization Plan Numbered 14 of 1950 and [section 3145 of title 40](/usc/40/3145.md).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–247, title IV, § 439, formerly § 423, as added Pub. L. 91–230, title IV, § 401(a)(10), Apr. 13, 1970, 84 Stat. 169; renumbered § 433, Pub. L. 92–318, title III, § 301(a)(1), June 23, 1972, 86 Stat. 326; renumbered § 439 and amended Pub. L. 103–382, title II, §§ 212(b)(1), 261(d), Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3913, 3927.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Reorganization Plan Numbered 14 of 1950, referred to in text, is set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

### Codification

“Sections 3141–3144, 3146, and 3147 of title 40” substituted for “the Davis-Bacon Act, as amended (40 U.S.C. 276a—276a–5)” and “section 3145 of title 40” substituted for “section 2 of the Act of June 13, 1934, as amended (40 U.S.C. 276c)” on authority of Pub. L. 107–217, § 5(c), Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1303, the first section of which enacted Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works.

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 439 of Pub. L. 90–247 was renumbered section 445, and is classified to section 1232h of this title.

### Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–382, § 261(d), substituted “All laborers” for “Except for emergency relief under section 241–1 of this title, all laborers”.