---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 4363"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "4363"
heading: "Financial and program audit by Secretary"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/4363"
units:
  - "Chapter 55 — Education of the Deaf"
  - "Subchapter II — General Provisions"
---

# §4363. Financial and program audit by Secretary


Funds appropriated in this Act or subsequent [Departments](/usc/20/1221.md?p=c-3) of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Acts to the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, and Gallaudet [University](/usc/20/4351.md?p=7) shall be subject to financial and program audit by the [Secretary](/usc/20/4351.md?p=4) of Education and the [Secretary](/usc/20/4351.md?p=4) may withhold all or any portion of these appropriations if he determines that an institution has not cooperated fully in the conduct of such audits.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–394, title III, § 301, Oct. 6, 1992, 106 Stat. 1819.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is from the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1993, and was not enacted as part of the Education of the Deaf Act of 1986 which comprises this chapter, and contained additional provisions relating to the American Printing House for the Blind and Howard University, which are set out as sections 106a and 130a of this title, respectively.