---
kind: "section"
citation: "52 U.S.C. § 20921"
title: "52"
title_heading: "Voting and Elections"
number: "20921"
heading: "Establishment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/52/20921"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Voting Assistance and Election Administration"
  - "Chapter 209 — Election Administration Improvement"
  - "Subchapter II — Commission"
  - "Part A — Establishment and General Organization"
  - "Subpart 1 — election assistance commission"
---

# §20921. Establishment


There is hereby established as an independent entity the [Election](/usc/52/20502.md?p=1) Assistance Commission (hereafter in this subchapter referred to as the “Commission”), consisting of the members appointed under this subpart. Additionally, there is established the [Election](/usc/52/20502.md?p=1) Assistance Commission Standards Board (including the Executive Board of such Board) and the [Election](/usc/52/20502.md?p=1) Assistance Commission Board of Advisors under subpart 2 of this part (hereafter in this subpart referred to as the “Standards Board” and the “Board of Advisors”, respectively) and the Technical Guidelines Development Committee under subpart 3 of this part.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–252, title II, § 201, Oct. 29, 2002, 116 Stat. 1673.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 15321 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.