---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 U.S.C. § 730"
title: "29"
title_heading: "Labor"
number: "730"
heading: "State allotments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/29/730"
units:
  - "Chapter 16 — Vocational Rehabilitation and Other Rehabilitation Services"
  - "Subchapter I — Vocational Rehabilitation Services"
  - "Part B — Basic Vocational Rehabilitation Services"
---

# §730. State allotments

- (a) **Computation; additional amount; minimum amount; adjustments—**
  - (1) Subject to the provisions of subsections [(c)](#c) and [(d)](#d),,[^1] for each fiscal year beginning before October 1, 1978, each [State](/usc/29/705.md?p=34) shall be entitled to an allotment of an amount bearing the same ratio to the amount authorized to be appropriated under [section 720(b)(1) of this title](/usc/29/720.md?p=b-1) for allotment under this section as the product of—
    - (A) the population of the [State](/usc/29/705.md?p=34); and
    - (B) the square of its allotment percentage,

    bears to the sum of the corresponding products for all the [States](/usc/29/705.md?p=34).

  - (2)
    - (A) For each fiscal year beginning on or after October 1, 1978, each [State](/usc/29/705.md?p=34) shall be entitled to an allotment in an amount equal to the amount such [State](/usc/29/705.md?p=34) received under [paragraph (1)](#a-1) for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, and an additional amount determined pursuant to subparagraph (B) of this paragraph.
    - (B) For each fiscal year beginning on or after October 1, 1978, each [State](/usc/29/705.md?p=34) shall be entitled to an allotment, from any amount authorized to be appropriated for such fiscal year under [section 720(b)(1) of this title](/usc/29/720.md?p=b-1) for allotment under this section in excess of the amount appropriated under [section 720(b)(1)(A)](/usc/29/720.md)[^2] of this title for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, in an amount equal to the sum of—
      - (i) an amount bearing the same ratio to 50 percent of such excess amount as the product of the population of the [State](/usc/29/705.md?p=34) and the square of its allotment percentage bears to the sum of the corresponding products for all the [States](/usc/29/705.md?p=34); and
      - (ii) an amount bearing the same ratio to 50 percent of such excess amount as the product of the population of the [State](/usc/29/705.md?p=34) and its allotment percentage bears to the sum of the corresponding products for all the [States](/usc/29/705.md?p=34).
  - (3) The sum of the payment to any [State](/usc/29/705.md?p=34) (other than Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands) under this subsection for any fiscal year which is less than ⅓ of 1 percent of the amount appropriated under [section 720(b)(1) of this title](/usc/29/720.md?p=b-1), or $3,000,000, whichever is greater, shall be increased to that amount, the total of the increases thereby required being derived by proportionately reducing the allotment to each of the remaining such [States](/usc/29/705.md?p=34) under this subsection, but with such adjustments as may be necessary to prevent the sum of the allotments made under this subsection to any such remaining [State](/usc/29/705.md?p=34) from being thereby reduced to less than that amount.
- (b) **Unused funds; redistribution; increase in amount—**
  - (1) Not later than 45 days prior to the end of the fiscal year, the Commissioner shall determine, after reasonable opportunity for the submission to the Commissioner of comments by the [State](/usc/29/705.md?p=34) agency administering or supervising the program established under this subchapter, that any payment of an allotment to a [State](/usc/29/705.md?p=34) under [section 731(a) of this title](/usc/29/731.md?p=a) for any fiscal year will not be utilized by such [State](/usc/29/705.md?p=34) in carrying out the purposes of this subchapter.
  - (2) As soon as practicable but not later than the end of the fiscal year, the Commissioner shall make such amount available for carrying out the purposes of this subchapter to one or more other [States](/usc/29/705.md?p=34) to the extent the Commissioner determines such other [State](/usc/29/705.md?p=34) will be able to use such additional amount during that fiscal year or the subsequent fiscal year for carrying out such purposes. The Commissioner shall make such amount available only if such other [State](/usc/29/705.md?p=34) will be able to make sufficient payments from non-Federal sources to pay for the non-[Federal share](/usc/29/705.md?p=14-A) of the cost of [vocational rehabilitation services](/usc/29/705.md?p=40) under the [State](/usc/29/705.md?p=34) plan for the fiscal year for which the amount was appropriated.
  - (3) For the purposes of this part, any amount made available to a [State](/usc/29/705.md?p=34) for any fiscal year pursuant to this subsection shall be regarded as an increase of such [State](/usc/29/705.md?p=34)’s allotment (as determined under the preceding provisions of this section) for such year.
- (c) **Funds for American Indian vocational rehabilitation services—**
  - (1) For fiscal year 2015 and for each subsequent fiscal year, the Commissioner shall reserve from the amount appropriated under [section 720(b)(1) of this title](/usc/29/720.md?p=b-1) for allotment under this section a sum, determined under [paragraph (2)](#c-2), to carry out the purposes of part C.
  - (2) The sum referred to in [paragraph (1)](#c-1) shall be, as determined by the [Secretary](/usc/29/705.md?p=33), not less than 1 percent and not more than 1.5 percent of the amount referred to in [paragraph (1)](#c-1), for each of fiscal years 2015 through 2020.
- (d) **Funds for pre-employment transition services—**
  - (1) From any [State](/usc/29/705.md?p=34) allotment under [subsection (a)](#a) for a fiscal year, the [State](/usc/29/705.md?p=34) shall reserve not less than 15 percent of the allotted funds for the provision of [pre-employment transition services](/usc/29/705.md?p=30).
  - (2) Such reserved funds shall not be used to pay for the [administrative costs](/usc/29/705.md?p=1) of providing [pre-employment transition services](/usc/29/705.md?p=30).

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original.
[^2]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–112, title I, § 110, as added Pub. L. 105–220, title IV, § 404, Aug. 7, 1998, 112 Stat. 1160; amended Pub. L. 105–277, div. A, § 101(f) [title VIII, § 402(b)(7)], Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–337, 2681–413; Pub. L. 113–128, title IV, § 419, July 22, 2014, 128 Stat. 1656.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Section 720(b)(1)(A) of this title, referred to in subsec. (a)(2)(B), means section 720(b)(1)(A) prior to the general amendment of section 720(b) by Pub. L. 102–569, title I, § 121(b)(1), Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4367, which restated subsec. (b)(1) without a subpar. (A). Section 720 was subsequently omitted, and a new section 720 added, in the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 105–220, title IV, § 404, Aug. 7, 1998, 112 Stat. 1116.

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 730, Pub. L. 93–112, title I, § 110, Sept. 26, 1973, 87 Stat. 370; Pub. L. 95–602, title I, §§ 101(c), (d), 122(b)(1), Nov. 6, 1978, 92 Stat. 2956, 2957, 2987; Pub. L. 98–221, title I, § 111(e), Feb. 22, 1984, 98 Stat. 20; Pub. L. 99–506, title I, § 103(c)(2), title II, §§ 206, 207, Oct. 21, 1986, 100 Stat. 1810, 1817, 1818; Pub. L. 102–569, title I, § 131, Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4389; Pub. L. 103–73, title I, § 107(e), Aug. 11, 1993, 107 Stat. 723, related to State allotments, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 105–220.

### Amendments

2014—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 113–128, § 419(1), substituted “Subject to the provisions of subsections (c) and (d),” for “Subject to the provisions of subsection (c)” in introductory provisions.

Subsec. (c)(1). Pub. L. 113–128, § 419(2)(A), substituted “2015” for “1987”.

Subsec. (c)(2). Pub. L. 113–128, § 419(2)(B), substituted “Secretary,” for “Secretary—” and “2015 through 2020” for “2000 through 2003”, struck out subpar. (B) designation before “not less than 1 percent”, and struck out subpar. (A) which read as follows: “not less than three-quarters of 1 percent and not more than 1.5 percent of the amount referred to in paragraph (1), for fiscal year 1999; and”.

Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 113–128, § 419(3), added subsec. (d).

1998—Pub. L. 105–277 made technical amendment to section designation and catchline in original.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Definitions of Terms in Pub. L. 113–128

Except as otherwise provided, definitions in section 3 of Pub. L. 113–128, which is classified to section 3102 of this title, apply to this section.