---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 3474"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "3474"
heading: "Rules and regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/3474"
units:
  - "Chapter 48 — Department of Education"
  - "Subchapter IV — Administrative Provisions"
  - "Part B — General Administrative Provisions"
---

# §3474. Rules and regulations


The [Secretary](/usc/20/3404.md?p=2) is authorized to prescribe such rules and regulations as the [Secretary](/usc/20/3404.md?p=2) determines necessary or appropriate to administer and manage the [functions](/usc/20/3404.md?p=4) of the [Secretary](/usc/20/3404.md?p=2) or the [Department](/usc/20/3404.md?p=1).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–88, title IV, § 414, Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 685; Pub. L. 99–145, title XII, § 1204(a)(5), Nov. 8, 1985, 99 Stat. 720; Pub. L. 103–382, title II, § 271(d)(1), Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3930.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–382 struck out subsec. (a) designation and subsec. (b) which read as follows: “The Secretary, in promulgating rules and regulations as authorized by statute, shall prescribe such rules and regulations in accordance with chapter 5 of title 5. Section 1232 of this title also shall apply to such rules and regulations to the extent applicable immediately prior to May 4, 1980, and to rules and regulations promulgated with respect to programs transferred under sections 3441(a)(1), (2), and (4), 3443, 3444, 3445, and 3446 of this title.”

1985—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 99–145 struck out reference to section 3442 of this title.