---
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"
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 agencies](/usc/29/49a.md?p=7) (1) to use their facilities and services, (2) to delegate, subject to [subsection (b)](#b), to Federal and [State agencies](/usc/29/49a.md?p=7) such authority, other than rulemaking, as may be useful in carrying out this chapter, and (3) to allocate or transfer [funds](/usc/29/1301.md?p=a-5) to, or otherwise pay or reimburse, such agencies for expenses incurred pursuant to agreements under clause [(1)](#b-1) or [(2)](#b-2) of this section.
- (b) **Delegation of authority pursuant to written State plan—** Any delegation to a [State agency](/usc/29/49a.md?p=7) pursuant to subsection (a)(2) shall be made only pursuant to a written [State plan](/usc/29/3102.md?p=58) 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 agency](/usc/29/49a.md?p=7) will comply with its description under [paragraph (1)](#b-1) and that the [State agency](/usc/29/49a.md?p=7)’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.