---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 9151"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "9151"
heading: "State advisory councils"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/9151"
units:
  - "Chapter 72 — Museum and Library Services"
  - "Subchapter II — Library Services and Technology"
  - "Part 3"
  - "Subpart a — state requirements"
---

# §9151. State advisory councils


Each [State](/usc/20/9122.md?p=3) desiring assistance under this subchapter may establish a [State](/usc/20/9122.md?p=3) advisory council which is broadly representative of the [library](/usc/20/9122.md?p=1) entities in the [State](/usc/20/9122.md?p=3), including public, tribal, school, academic, special, and institutional [libraries](/usc/20/9122.md?p=1), and [libraries](/usc/20/9122.md?p=1) serving people of diverse geographic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds, individuals with disabilities, residents of rural and urban areas, Native Americans, military families, veterans, and caregivers.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–462, title II, § 251, as added Pub. L. 104–208, div. A, title I, § 101(e) [title VII, § 702], Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009–233, 3009–301; amended Pub. L. 115–410, § 13, Dec. 31, 2018, 132 Stat. 5417.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–410 inserted “tribal,” after “public,” and substituted “and libraries serving people of diverse geographic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds, individuals with disabilities, residents of rural and urban areas, Native Americans, military families, veterans, and caregivers” for “and libraries serving individuals with disabilities”.