TITLE; APPLICABILITY; DEFINITIONS.

SEC. 211. TITLE; APPLICABILITY; DEFINITIONS. Section 400 of the General Education Provisions Act (20 U.S.C. 1221 et seq.) (hereafter in this title (other than part F) referred to as the “Act”) is amended to read as follows: “short title; applicability; definitions “Sec. 400. (a) This title may be cited as the ‘General Education Provisions Act’. “(b) (1) Except as otherwise provided, this title applies to each applicable program of the Department of Education. “(2) Except as otherwise provided, this title does not apply to any contract made by the Department of Education. “(c) As used in this title, the following terms have the following meanings: 108 STAT. 3913 “(1) The term ‘applicable program’ means any program for which the Secretary or the Department has administrative responsibility as provided by law or by delegation of authority pursuant to law. The term includes each program for which the Secretary or the Department has administrative responsibility under the Department of Education Organization Act or under Federal law effective after the effective date of that Act. “(2) The term ‘applicable statute’ means— “(A) the Act or the title, part, section, or any other subdivision of an Act, as the case may be, that authorizes the appropriation for an applicable program; “(B) this title; and “(C) any other statute that by its terms expressly controls the administration of an applicable program. “(3) The term ‘Department’ means the Department of Education. “(4) The term ‘Secretary’ means the Secretary of Education. “(d) Nothing in this title shall be construed to affect the applicability of title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, title V of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act, or other statutes prohibiting discrimination, to any applicable program.”.