Title 34 — Crime Control and Law Enforcement
Chapter 213 — Rape Survivor Child Custody
§ 21303. Increased funding for formula grants authorized
Statutory text
The Attorney General shall increase the amount provided to a State under the covered formula grants in accordance with this chapter if the State has in place a law that allows the mother of any child that was conceived through rape to seek court-ordered termination of the parental rights of her rapist with regard to that child, which the court is authorized to grant upon clear and convincing evidence of rape.
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.
Rape Survivor Child Custody Act
Pub. L. 114–22 title IV § 404 · 129 Stat. 227
Enacted · 34 U.S.C. § 21303
(Pub. L. 114–22, title IV, § 404, May 29, 2015, 129 Stat. 257.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 114–22, title IV, § 404, May 29, 2015, 129 Stat. 257.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 404. INCREASED FUNDING FOR FORMULA GRANTS AUTHORIZED. The Attorney General shall increase the amount provided to a State under the covered formula grants in accordance with this title if the State has in place a law that allows the mother of any child that was conceived through rape to seek court-ordered termination of the parental rights of her rapist with regard to that child, which the court is authorized to grant upon clear and convincing evidence of rape.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 14043h–2 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.