Recodification of Title IX Rules
Key claim: The Education Department is formally deleting the vacated 2024 Title IX regulations from the Code of Federal Regulations and putting the older Title IX rules back in the official books, matching what schools have already been following.
Abstract
(Rule · Education Department) The Secretary of Education publishes a final rule to repeal the U.S. Department of Education’s (Department) 2024 final rule amending the Title IX regulations and restoring the regulatory text that existed prior to the 2024 rulemaking. The Department takes this action because the 2024 final rule has been vacated and is not enforceable nationwide. The Department has not enforced the 2024 final rule for over a year and a half; the regulatory text that existed before promulgation of the 2024 final rule, which is in force, should be recodified in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). For this reason, the Department repeals the 2024 final rule to update the CFR.
Why this matters
Title IX governs how every federally funded school handles sex discrimination, sexual harassment, and related complaint procedures, so what the CFR actually says matters for students, employees, and administrators navigating those processes. This action is largely housekeeping — the 2024 rule had already been vacated by courts — but putting the pre-2024 text back in the official code removes ambiguity for schools, complainants, and respondents about which regulatory regime applies.