---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 3509"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "3509"
heading: "Coordination of programs for handicapped"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/3509"
units:
  - "Chapter 48 — Department of Education"
  - "Subchapter V — Transitional, Savings, and Conforming Provisions"
---

# §3509. Coordination of programs for handicapped


The [Secretary](/usc/20/3404.md?p=2) of Health and Human Services shall identify, assess, coordinate, and eliminate conflict, duplication, and inconsistencies among programs significantly affecting handicapped individuals carried out by or under the [Department](/usc/20/3404.md?p=1) of Health and Human Services, shall promote efficiency among such programs, and shall seek to coordinate, to the maximum extent feasible, such programs with programs significantly affecting handicapped individuals carried out by or under the [Department](/usc/20/3404.md?p=1) of Education.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–88, title V, § 510, Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 695.)