§10405 Allotment of funds

Summary

Divide grant money among the States and four U.S. territories for each fiscal year. Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands each must get at least 1/8 of 1 percent of the grant pool. Each State gets $600,000 first. The rest of the money is split among the States based on each State’s share of the total State population, using the most recent census or the Commerce Department’s annual population estimates. If there is not enough money to pay those amounts, every State’s share is cut back proportionally, and it is increased the same way if extra funds appear later. If a State has not met grant rules and its money is not given by the end of the sixth month of the fiscal year, the Secretary must reassign that money to States that do meet the rules. Money given to a State stays available until the end of the next fiscal year. Any of those funds not used by then go to the Secretary for discretionary use and can be spent by that recipient for up to 1 year after the Secretary receives them. The word “State” for the $600,000 rule does not include the four territories named above.