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Title 34 — Crime Control and Law Enforcement

Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement

§ 10384. Limitation on use of funds

Statutory text

(a)

Nonsupplanting requirement

Funds made available under this subchapter to States or units of local government shall not be used to supplant State or local funds, or, in the case of Indian tribal governments, funds supplied by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, but shall be used to increase the amount of funds that would, in the absence of Federal funds received under this subchapter, be made available from State or local sources, or in the case of Indian tribal governments, from funds supplied by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

(b)

Non-Federal costs

(1)

In general

States and units of local government may use assets received through the Assets Forfeiture equitable sharing program to provide the non-Federal share of the cost of programs, projects, and activities funded under this subchapter.

(2)

Indian tribal governments

Funds appropriated by the Congress for the activities of any agency of an Indian tribal government or the Bureau of Indian Affairs performing law enforcement functions on any Indian lands may be used to provide the non-Federal share of the cost of programs or projects funded under this subchapter.

(c)

Hiring costs

Funding provided under this subchapter for hiring or rehiring a career law enforcement officer may not exceed $75,000, unless the Attorney General grants a waiver from this limitation.

(d)

Guidance for understaffed law enforcement agencies

(1)

Definitions

In this subsection:

(A)

Covered applicant

The term “covered applicant” means an applicant for a hiring grant under this subchapter seeking funding for a law enforcement agency operating below the budgeted strength of the law enforcement agency.

(B)

Budgeted strength

The term “budgeted strength” means the employment of the maximum number of sworn law enforcement officers the budget of a law enforcement agency allows the agency to employ.

(2)

Procedures

Not later than 180 days after , the Attorney General shall establish consistent procedures for covered applicants, including guidance that—

(A)

clarifies that covered applicants remain eligible for funding under this subchapter; and

(B)

enables covered applicants to attest that the funding from a grant awarded under this subchapter is not being used by the law enforcement agency to supplant State or local funds, as described in subsection (a).

(3)

Paperwork reduction

In developing the procedures and guidance under paragraph (2), the Attorney General shall take measures to reduce paperwork requirements for grants to covered applicants.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968

    Pub. L. 90–351 title I § 1704 · 82 Stat. 197

    Enacted · 34 U.S.C. § 10384

    Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 1704, as added Pub. L. 103–322, title I, § 10003(a)(3), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1812

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 1704, as added Pub. L. 103–322, title I, § 10003(a)(3), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1812

  2. Pub. L. 118–64 § 5 · 138 Stat. 1436

    Added · 34 U.S.C. § 10384(d)

    Pub. L. 118–64 added subsec. (d)

    Unresolved: Pub. L. 118–64 was not found in the local Statutes at Large index.

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 118–64 added subsec. (d).

0 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial · 1 unresolved

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 3796dd–3 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Amendments

2024—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 118–64 added subsec. (d).

Credits

1994–2024 · 2 acts
  1. 1994Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 1704, as added Pub. L. 103–322, title I, § 10003(a)(3), , 108 Stat. 1812
  2. 2024amended Pub. L. 118–64, § 5, , 138 Stat. 1436.
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(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 1704, as added Pub. L. 103–322, title I, § 10003(a)(3), , 108 Stat. 1812; amended Pub. L. 118–64, § 5, , 138 Stat. 1436.)

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