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§10563 Allocation

Title 34 › Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts › CHAPTER 101 — JUSTICE SYSTEM IMPROVEMENT › SUBCHAPTER XXVII — PAUL COVERDELL FORENSIC SCIENCES IMPROVEMENT GRANTS › § 10563

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Each year, 85% of the money for this program must go to eligible States based on their share of the total population. Every State that meets the law’s eligibility rules gets at least 1% of the yearly funds. If there is not enough money to pay those minimums, the Attorney General will shrink the 85% population payments and spread the cuts across the other States in proportion to their populations. The remaining 15% is used by the Attorney General for competitive grants to States and local governments. When choosing winners, the Attorney General must look at each State’s average annual number of Part 1 violent crimes reported to the FBI for the 3 most recent calendar years and at the applicant’s resources and needs. “State” here means the 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands. For allocation rules, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands count as one unit, with 67% of that unit’s share going to American Samoa and 33% to the Northern Mariana Islands.

Full Legal Text

Title 34, §10563

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(a)In general
(1)Population allocation
Eighty-five percent of the amount made available to carry out this subchapter in each fiscal year shall be allocated to each State that meets the requirements of section 10562 of this title so that each State shall receive an amount that bears the same ratio to the 85 percent of the total amount made available to carry out this subchapter for that fiscal year as the population of the State bears to the population of all States.
(2)Discretionary allocation
Fifteen percent of the amount made available to carry out this subchapter in each fiscal year shall be allocated pursuant to the Attorney General’s discretion for competitive awards to States and units of local government. In making awards under this subchapter, the Attorney General shall consider the average annual number of part 1 violent crimes reported by each State to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the 3 most recent calendar years for which data is available and consider the existing resources and current needs of the potential grant recipient.
(3)Minimum requirement
Each State shall receive not less than 1 percent of the amount made available to carry out this subchapter in each fiscal year.
(4)Proportional reduction
If the amounts available to carry out this subchapter in each fiscal year are insufficient to pay in full the total payment that any State is otherwise eligible to receive under paragraph (3), then the Attorney General shall reduce payments under paragraph (1) for such payment period to the extent of such insufficiency. Reductions under the preceding sentence shall be allocated among the States (other than States whose payment is determined under paragraph (3)) in the same proportions as amounts would be allocated under paragraph (1) without regard to paragraph (3).
(b)State defined
In this section, the term “State” means each of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, except that—
(1)for purposes of the allocation under this section, American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands shall be considered as 1 State; and
(2)for purposes of paragraph (1), 67 percent of the amount allocated shall be allocated to American Samoa, and 33 percent shall be allocated to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 3797l of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Amendments

2016—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 114–324, § 9(a)(2)(A), substituted “Eighty-five percent” for “Seventy-five percent” and “85 percent” for “75 percent”. Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 114–324, § 9(a)(2)(B), substituted “Fifteen percent” for “Twenty-five percent”. Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 114–324, § 9(a)(2)(C), substituted “1 percent” for “0.6 percent”. 2002—Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 107–273 substituted “for competitive awards to States and units of local government. In making awards under this subchapter, the Attorney General shall consider the average annual number of part 1 violent crimes reported by each State to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the 3 most recent calendar years for which data is available and consider the existing resources and current needs of the potential grant recipient” for “to States with above average rates of part 1 violent crimes based on the average annual number of part 1 violent crimes reported by such State to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the 3 most recent calendar years for which such data is available”.

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Citation

34 U.S.C. § 10563

Title 34, Navy

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110