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Title 34 — Crime Control and Law Enforcement

Part C · Chapter 111 — Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

§ 11231. Authority to make grants

Statutory text

The Secretary shall make grants for a national communication system to assist runaway and homeless youth in communicating with their families and with service providers. The Secretary shall give priority to grant applicants that have experience in providing telephone services to runaway and homeless youth.

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. Runaway Youth Act

    Pub. L. 93–415 title III § 331 · [88 Stat. 1109]

    Enacted · 34 U.S.C. § 11231

    Pub. L. 93–415, title III, § 331, as added Pub. L. 102–586, § 3(g)(1)(C), Nov. 4, 1992, 106 Stat. 5022

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 93–415, title III, § 331, as added Pub. L. 102–586, § 3(g)(1)(C), Nov. 4, 1992, 106 Stat. 5022

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 331. (a) To carry out the purposes of part A of this title there is authorized to be appropriated for each of the fiscal years ending June 30, 1975, 1976, and 1977, the sum of $10.000.000. (b) To carry out the purposes of part B of this title there is authorized to be appropriated the sum of $500,000.

  2. Missing, Exploited, and Runaway Children Protection Act

    Pub. L. 106–71 § 3(r)(1) · 113 Stat. 1032

    Substituted · 34 U.S.C. § 11231

    Pub. L. 106–71 substituted “The Secretary” for “With funds reserved under section 5751(a)(3) of this title, the Secretary” in first sentence

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 106–71 substituted “The Secretary” for “With funds reserved under section 5751(a)(3) of this title, the Secretary” in first sentence.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (1) in section 331, in the first sentence, by striking “With” 42 USC 5714–11. and all that follows through “the Secretary”, and inserting “The Secretary”; and

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 5714–11 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section. Some section numbers or references in amendment notes below reflect the classification of such sections or references prior to editorial reclassification.

Amendments

1999—Pub. L. 106–71 substituted “The Secretary” for “With funds reserved under section 5751(a)(3) of this title, the Secretary” in first sentence.

Credits

1992–1999 · 2 acts
  1. 1992Pub. L. 93–415, title III, § 331, as added Pub. L. 102–586, § 3(g)(1)(C), , 106 Stat. 5022
  2. 1999amended Pub. L. 106–71, § 3(r)(1), , 113 Stat. 1043.
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(Pub. L. 93–415, title III, § 331, as added Pub. L. 102–586, § 3(g)(1)(C), , 106 Stat. 5022; amended Pub. L. 106–71, § 3(r)(1), , 113 Stat. 1043.)

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