---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 7916"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "7916"
heading: "Severability"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/7916"
units:
  - "Chapter 70 — Strengthening and Improvement of Elementary and Secondary Schools"
  - "Subchapter VIII — General Provisions"
  - "Part F — Uniform Provisions"
  - "Subpart 2 — other provisions"
---

# §7916. Severability


If any provision of this chapter is held invalid, the remainder of this chapter shall be unaffected thereby.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–10, title VIII, § 8536, formerly title IX, § 9536, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title IX, § 901, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1985; renumbered title VIII, § 8536, Pub. L. 114–95, title VIII, § 8001(a)(6), Dec. 10, 2015, 129 Stat. 2088, 2089.)