§12576 — Title 34 Navy | U.S. Code

§12576 State application

Title 34 › Subtitle Subtitle I— - Comprehensive Acts › Chapter CHAPTER 121— - VIOLENT CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER VII— - POLICE CORPS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS TRAINING AND EDUCATION › Part Part B— - Law Enforcement Scholarship Program › § 12576

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

To get federal funding, a State must send an application to the Director when and how the Director asks and include any required information. The application must describe the scholarship program and the student work program. It must promise the lead State agency will work with local police contacts, police labor and management groups, and other state or local agencies to make and carry out agreements. The State must promise to publicize the scholarships and work opportunities and use them to help recruit officers. The State must show how it will screen and pick law enforcement participants and students who want a law enforcement career, and must agree to pay scholarship money to colleges for the students. For the student work program the State must say what tasks students will do, how much they will be paid, and what training they will get. The application must also identify model courses or existing programs for law enforcement education and promise to set up cooperative agreements with schools and law enforcement to boost recruiting.

Title 34, §12576

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(a)Each State desiring an allotment under section 12572 of this title shall submit an application to the Director at such time, in such manner, and accompanied by such information as the Director may reasonably require.

(b)An application under subsection (a) shall—

(1)describe the scholarship program and the student employment program for which assistance under this part is sought;

(2)contain assurances that the lead agency will work in cooperation with the local law enforcement liaisons, representatives of police labor organizations and police management organizations, and other appropriate State and local agencies to develop and implement interagency agreements designed to carry out this part;

(3)contain assurances that the State will advertise the scholarship assistance and student employment it will provide under this part and that the State will use such programs to enhance recruitment efforts;

(4)contain assurances that the State will screen and select law enforcement personnel for participation in the scholarship program under this part;

(5)contain assurances that under such student employment program the State will screen and select, for participation in such program, students who have an interest in undertaking a career in law enforcement;

(6)contain assurances that under such scholarship program the State will make scholarship payments to institutions of higher education on behalf of persons who receive scholarships under this part;

(7)with respect to such student employment program, identify—

(A)the employment tasks that students will be assigned to perform;

(B)the compensation that students will be paid to perform such tasks; and

(C)the training that students will receive as part of their participation in the program;

(8)identify model curriculum and existing programs designed to meet the educational and professional needs of law enforcement personnel; and

(9)contain assurances that the State will promote cooperative agreements with educational and law enforcement agencies to enhance law enforcement personnel recruitment efforts in institutions of higher education.

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 14116 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

§12576 State application

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Title 34, §12576

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