§11261 — Title 34 Navy | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary can give grants to nonprofit private agencies so they can offer street-based help to runaway, homeless, and other street youth who have been harmed by or are at risk of sexual abuse, prostitution, sexual exploitation, or certain kinds of trafficking. When choosing who gets grants, the Secretary must give priority to public and nonprofit agencies that already have experience helping runaway, homeless, and street youth.

Title 34, §11261

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(a)The Secretary may make grants to nonprofit private agencies for the purpose of providing street-based services to runaway and homeless, and street youth, who have been subjected to, or are at risk of being subjected to, sexual abuse, prostitution, sexual exploitation, severe forms of trafficking in persons (as defined in section 7102(9) 11 See References in Text note below. of title 22), or sex trafficking (as defined in section 7102(10) 1 of title 22).

(b)In selecting applicants to receive grants under subsection (a), the Secretary shall give priority to public and nonprofit private agencies that have experience in providing services to runaway and homeless, and street youth.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

section 7102(9) and (10) of title 22, referred to in subsec. (a), was redesignated section 7102(11) and (12), respectively, of title 22 by Pub. L. 115–427, § 2(1), Jan. 9, 2019, 132 Stat. 5503. Codification Section was formerly classified to section 5714–41 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Amendments

Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 114–22 substituted “sexual exploitation, severe forms of trafficking in persons (as defined in section 7102(9) of title 22), or sex trafficking (as defined in section 7102(10) of title 22)” for “or sexual exploitation”. 2008—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 110–378 inserted “public and” after “priority to”.

§11261 Authority to Make Grants