20 U.S.C. § 1070c–1: Allotment among States

§1070c–1 Allotment Among States

Title 20 › CHAPTER 28 — HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCES AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE › SUBCHAPTER IV — STUDENT ASSISTANCE › Part A — Grants to Students in Attendance at Institutions of Higher Education › subpart 4 — leveraging educational assistance partnership program › § 1070c–1

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must give each State money from the funds under section 1070c(b)(1) that are not held back under section 1070c(b)(2). Each State’s share is the same share of the money as its share of the total number of students who are eligible for the program, using the most recent year with reliable data. No State can get less than it got in fiscal year 1979. If a State will not need all of its money for the year, the unused amount can be given to other States during that year. The extra money is split based on the States’ original shares, but a State’s added share is cut back if the Secretary thinks the State does not need or cannot use that much. Any money moved to a State this way counts as part of its original allotment. The Secretary will only pay continuing incentive grants to States that keep meeting the rules in section 1070c–2(b).

Title 20, §1070c–1

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(a)Allotment based on number of eligible students in attendance

(1)From the sums appropriated pursuant to section 1070c(b)(1) of this title and not reserved under section 1070c(b)(2) of this title for any fiscal year, the Secretary shall allot to each State an amount which bears the same ratio to such sums as the number of students who are deemed eligible in such State for participation in the grant program authorized by this subpart bears to the total number of such students in all the States, except that no State shall receive less than the State received for fiscal year 1979.

(2)For the purpose of this subsection, the number of students who are deemed eligible in a State for participation in the grant program authorized by this subpart, and the number of such students in all the States, shall be determined for the most recent year for which satisfactory data are available.

(b)Reallotment

The amount of any State’s allotment under subsection (a) for any fiscal year which the Secretary determines will not be required for such fiscal year for the leveraging educational assistance partnership program of that State shall be available for reallotment from time to time, on such dates during such year as the Secretary may fix, to other States in proportion to the original allotments to such States under such part for such year, but with such proportionate amount for any of such States being reduced to the extent it exceeds the sum the Secretary estimates such State needs and will be able to use for such year for carrying out the State plan. The total of such reductions shall be similarly reallotted among the States whose proportionate amounts were not so reduced. Any amount reallotted to a State under this part during a year from funds appropriated pursuant to section 1070c(b)(1) of this title shall be deemed part of its allotment under subsection (a) for such year.

(c)Allotments subject to continuing compliance

The Secretary shall make payments for continuing incentive grants only to States which continue to meet the requirements of section 1070c–2(b) of this title.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 1070c–1, Pub. L. 89–329, title IV, § 415B, as added Pub. L. 92–318, title I, § 131(b)(1), June 23, 1972, 86 Stat. 256; amended Pub. L. 94–482, title I, § 123(c)(2), Oct. 12, 1976, 90 Stat. 2094; Pub. L. 96–374, title IV, § 404(b), title XIII, § 1391(a)(1), Oct. 3, 1980, 94 Stat. 1407, 1503, related to allotment among States of amounts for grants to States for State student incentives, prior to the general revision of this part by Pub. L. 99–498.

Amendments

1998—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 105–244, § 407(c)(2), inserted “and not reserved under section 1070c(b)(2) of this title” after “1070c(b)(1) of this title”. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 105–244, § 407(a)(2)(A), substituted “leveraging educational assistance partnership” for “State student grant incentive”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1998 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 105–244 effective Oct. 1, 1998, except as otherwise provided in Pub. L. 105–244, see section 3 of Pub. L. 105–244, set out as a note under section 1001 of this title.