---
kind: "section"
citation: "52 U.S.C. § 20929"
title: "52"
title_heading: "Voting and Elections"
number: "20929"
heading: "Limitation on rulemaking authority"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/52/20929"
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"
---

# §20929. Limitation on rulemaking authority


The Commission shall not have any authority to issue any rule, promulgate any regulation, or take any other action which imposes any requirement on any [State](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5) or unit of local government, except to the extent permitted under [section 20508(a) of this title](/usc/52/20508.md?p=a).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–252, title II, § 209, Oct. 29, 2002, 116 Stat. 1678.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 15329 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.