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§10301 Purposes
Title 34 › Subtitle Subtitle I— Comprehensive Acts › Chapter 101— JUSTICE SYSTEM IMPROVEMENT › Subchapter XI— PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS’ DEATH BENEFITS › Part B— Educational Assistance to Dependents of Civilian Federal Law Enforcement Officers Killed or Disabled in Line of Duty › § 10301
Summary
Provide education benefits to attract people to public safety jobs, help families of eligible officers killed or totally disabled afford college, and restore lost career or education chances.
Full Legal Text
Title 34, §10301
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The purposes of this part are—
(1)to enhance the appeal of service in public safety agencies;
(2)to extend the benefits of higher education to qualified and deserving persons who, by virtue of the death of or total disability of an eligible officer, may not be able to afford it otherwise; and
(3)to allow the family members of eligible officers to attain the vocational and educational status which they would have attained had a parent or spouse not been killed or disabled in the line of duty.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification Section was formerly classified to section 3796d of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.
Amendments
1998—Par. (1). Pub. L. 105–390 substituted “public safety” for “civilian Federal law
Enforcement
”.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Short Title
For
Short Title
of Pub. L. 104–238, which enacted this subchapter, as the “Federal Law
Enforcement
Dependents Assistance Act of 1996”, see section 1 of Pub. L. 104–238, set out as a
Short Title
of 1996 Act note under section 10101 of this title.
Reference
Citations & Metadata
Citation
34 U.S.C. § 10301
Title 34 — Navy
Last Updated
Apr 5, 2026
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