---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 1405"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "1405"
heading: "Employment of individuals with disabilities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/1405"
units:
  - "Chapter 33 — Education of Individuals with Disabilities"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §1405. Employment of individuals with disabilities


The [Secretary](/usc/20/1401.md?p=28) shall ensure that each recipient of assistance under this chapter makes positive efforts to employ and advance in employment qualified individuals with disabilities in programs assisted under this chapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–230, title VI, § 606, as added Pub. L. 108–446, title I, § 101, Dec. 3, 2004, 118 Stat. 2659.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 1405, Pub. L. 91–230, title VI, § 606, as added Pub. L. 105–17, title I, § 101, June 4, 1997, 111 Stat. 47, related to employment of individuals with disabilities by recipients of assistance under this chapter, prior to the general amendment of subchapters I to IV of this chapter by Pub. L. 108–446.

Another prior section 1405, Pub. L. 91–230, title VI, § 606, as added Pub. L. 94–142, § 6(a), Nov. 29, 1975, 89 Stat. 795; amended Pub. L. 101–476, title IX, § 901(b)(22), (23), Oct. 30, 1990, 104 Stat. 1143; Pub. L. 102–119, § 25(b), Oct. 7, 1991, 105 Stat. 607, related to employment of individuals with disabilities by recipients of assistance under this chapter, prior to the general amendment of subchapters I to IV of this chapter by Pub. L. 105–17.