Less Bureaucracy, Better International Education Oversight Act

There are transferred to the Secretary of State all the functions which the Secretary of Education exercised before the effective date of this Act (including all related functions of any officer or employee of the Department of Education) with respect to each of the following:

(1) International Education Programs under title VI of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1121 et seq.), as amended by this Act.

(2) The Fulbright-Hays program authorized under section 102(b)(6) of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2452(b)(6)).

Part C of title VI of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.) is repealed.

The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall ensure that this Act does not result in a net increase in full-time equivalent employees at the Federal agencies impacted by this Act, based on the number of such employees at such agencies on the date of enactment of this Act.

If necessary, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall make any determination of the functions that are transferred under this Act.

The Director of the Office of Management and Budget, at such time or times as the Director shall provide, may make such determinations as may be necessary with regard to the functions transferred by this Act, and to make such additional incidental dispositions of personnel, assets, liabilities, grants, contracts, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, authorizations, allocations, and other funds held, used, arising from, available to, or to be made available in connection with such functions, as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. The Director shall provide for further measures and dispositions as may be necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Act.

On the effective date of this Act, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall certify compliance with this Act, including the requirement under subsection (a), to the Committee on Education and Workforce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate.

(1) the Secretary of Education shall be deemed to refer to the Secretary of State; and

(2) the Department of Education shall be deemed to refer to the Department of State.

All orders, determinations, rules, regulations, permits, grants, loans, contracts, agreements, certificates, licenses, and privileges— shall continue in effect according to their terms until modified, terminated, superseded, set aside, or revoked in accordance with law by the President, the Secretary of State, any other authorized official, a court of competent jurisdiction, or operation of law.

(1) that have been issued, made, granted, or allowed to become effective by the President, any Federal agency or official thereof, or by a court of competent jurisdiction, in the performance of any function that is transferred by this Act, and

(2) that are in effect on the effective date of such transfer (or become effective after such date pursuant to their terms as in effect on such effective date),

This Act shall not affect any proceedings or any application for any benefits, service, license, permit, certificate, or financial assistance pending on the effective date of this Act before the Department of Education (with respect to functions transferred by this Act). Such proceedings and applications shall continue, orders shall be issued in such proceedings, appeals shall be taken therefrom, and payments shall be made pursuant to such orders, as if this Act had not been enacted, and orders issued in any such proceeding shall continue in effect until modified, terminated, superseded, or revoked by a duly authorized official, by a court of competent jurisdiction, or by operation of law. Nothing in this subsection shall be considered to prohibit the discontinuance or modification of any such proceeding under the same terms and conditions and to the same extent that such proceeding could have been discontinued or modified if this Act had not been enacted.

Except as provided in subsection (e)—

(1) this Act shall not affect suits commenced before the effective date of this Act; and

(2) in all such suits, proceeding shall be had, appeals taken, and judgments rendered in the same manner and with the same effect as if this Act had not been enacted.

No suit, action, or other proceeding commenced by or against the Department of Education (with respect to the functions transferred by this Act), or by or against any individual in the official capacity of such individual as an officer or employee of the Department of Education (with regard to functions transferred by this Act), shall abate by reason of the enactment of this Act.

If, before the date on which a transfer of a function under this Act takes effect, the Secretary of Education or any officer or employee of the Department of Education in the official capacity as such an officer or employee is party to a suit relating to the function, then such suit shall be continued and the Secretary of State, or other appropriate official of the Department of State, shall be substituted or added as a party.

Except as otherwise provided by this Act, any statutory requirements relating to notice, hearings, action upon the record, or administrative or judicial review that apply to any function transferred by this Act shall apply to the exercise of such function by the Secretary of State, and other officers of the agency, to which such function is transferred by this Act.

(1) the services of officers, employees, and other personnel of the Department of Education with regard to functions transferred under this Act;

(2) assets of the Department of Education with regard to such functions; and

(3) funds appropriated to such functions.

Except as provided in section 9, this Act shall take effect 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act.

Notwithstanding subsection (a), transfers of functions under section 2 or any other provision of this Act (other than section 9) may be carried out beginning on the date of enactment of this Act but not later than the effective date of this Act.