---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 9548"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "9548"
heading: "State defined"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/9548"
units:
  - "Chapter 76 — Education Research, Statistics, Evaluation, Information, and Dissemination"
  - "Subchapter I — Education Sciences Reform"
  - "Part C — National Center for Education Statistics"
---

# §9548. State defined


In this part, the term “[State](/usc/20/9501.md?p=22)” means each of the 50 [States](/usc/20/9501.md?p=22), the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–279, title I, § 158, Nov. 5, 2002, 116 Stat. 1962.)