• The Higher Education Act (HEA) can be found in Title 20, Chapter 28 of the United States Code available from the Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute. A downloadable text version is available from the House of Representatives Office of Law Revision Counsel.
  Text; 20 U.S.C. 1070d-2

• The HEA was last reauthorized in 1998 for a 5-year period and can be found at http://www.ed.gov/policy/highered/leg/hea98/index.html.

Program Regulations

• Program Regulations are found at 34 CFR 206.

Department Regulations

• The Education Department General Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) also apply.

Faith-Based Regulations

Final regulations to implement Executive branch policy that, within the framework of constitutional church-state guidelines, religiously affiliated (or "faith-based") organizations should be able to compete on an equal footing with other organizations for funding by the U.S. Department of Education are available.

• View the full text of the Federal Register notice announcing these final regulations (June 4, 2004)

• View the full text of the regulations amended by this Federal Register notice, which apply to all entities, including faith-based organizations, that receive grants from the Department of Education in 34 C.F.R. parts 74-99

• View the final regulations compiled by the Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives