---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 U.S.C. § 1863"
title: "29"
title_heading: "Labor"
number: "1863"
heading: "Agreements with Federal and State agencies"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/29/1863"
units:
  - "Chapter 20 — Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection"
  - "Subchapter V — General Provisions"
  - "Part B — Administrative Provisions"
---

# §1863. Agreements with Federal and State agencies

- (a) **Scope of agreements—** The [Secretary](/usc/29/1802.md?p=11) may enter into agreements with Federal and [State](/usc/29/1802.md?p=12) agencies (1) to use their facilities and services, (2) to delegate, subject to [subsection (b)](#b), to Federal and [State](/usc/29/1802.md?p=12) agencies such authority, other than rulemaking, as may be useful in carrying out this chapter, and (3) to allocate or transfer funds to, or otherwise pay or reimburse, such agencies for expenses incurred pursuant to agreements under clause (1) or (2) of this section.
- (b) **Delegation of authority pursuant to written State plan—** Any delegation to a [State](/usc/29/1802.md?p=12) agency pursuant to subsection (a)(2) shall be made only pursuant to a written [State](/usc/29/1802.md?p=12) plan which—
  - (1) shall include a description of the functions to be performed, the methods of performing such functions, and the resources to be devoted to the performance of such functions; and
  - (2) provides assurances satisfactory to the [Secretary](/usc/29/1802.md?p=11) that the [State](/usc/29/1802.md?p=12) agency will comply with its description under [paragraph (1)](#b-1) and that the [State](/usc/29/1802.md?p=12) agency’s performance of functions so delegated will be at least comparable to the performance of such functions by the Department of Labor.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–470, title V, § 513, Jan. 14, 1983, 96 Stat. 2599.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective 90 days from Jan. 14, 1983, see section 524 of Pub. L. 97–470, set out as a note under section 1801 of this title.