---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 7948"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "7948"
heading: "Effective date"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/7948"
units:
  - "Chapter 70 — Strengthening and Improvement of Elementary and Secondary Schools"
  - "Subchapter VIII — General Provisions"
  - "Part F — Uniform Provisions"
  - "Subpart 3 — teacher liability protection"
---

# §7948. Effective date

- (a) **In general—** This subpart shall take effect 90 days after January 8, 2002.
- (b) **Application—** This subpart applies to any claim for harm caused by an act or omission of a [teacher](/usc/20/7943.md?p=6) if that claim is filed on or after the effective date of the No [Child](/usc/20/7801.md?p=3) Left Behind Act of 2001 without regard to whether the harm that is the subject of the claim or the conduct that caused the harm occurred before such effective date.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–10, title VIII, § 8558, formerly title II, § 2368, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title II, § 201, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1670; renumbered title IX, § 9548, renumbered title VIII, § 8558, Pub. L. 114–95, title II, § 2001(a)(3)(A), (B), (D), title VIII, § 8001(a)(7), Dec. 10, 2015, 129 Stat. 1913, 2088, 2089.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

For the effective date of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, referred to in subsec. (b), see section 5 of Pub. L. 107–110, set out as an Effective Date note under section 6301 of this title.

### Codification

Section was classified to section 6738 of this title prior to renumbering by Pub. L. 114–95.