---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 U.S.C. § 7302"
title: "31"
title_heading: "Money and Finance"
number: "7302"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/31/7302"
units:
  - "Subtitle V — General Assistance Administration"
  - "Chapter 73 — Administering Block Grants"
---

# §7302. Definitions


In this chapter—

- (1) “block grant amounts” means amounts received for a program that—
  - (A) directly allocates amounts to [States](/usc/31/6201.md?p=2) only, except for amounts allocated for use by the [agency](/usc/31/6401.md?p=1) administering the program; and
  - (B) provides that the [State](/usc/31/6201.md?p=2) may use any part of the amounts at its discretion to continue to support activities financed on August 12, 1981, under programs whose authorizations were discontinued by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (Public Law 97–35, 95 Stat. 357) and that were financed on August 12, 1981, by allocations by the United States Government to [local governments](/usc/31/6302.md?p=3) or other eligible entities, or both [local governments](/usc/31/6302.md?p=3) and other eligible entities.
- (2) “[State](/usc/31/6201.md?p=2)” includes the District of Columbia and territories and possessions of the United States.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1040.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 7302 | 31:1243(note). | Aug. 13, 1981, Pub. L. 97–35, § 1741(b), 95 Stat. 763. |

In clause (1)(A), the word “Federal” is omitted as surplus because of section 101 of the revised title.

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, referred to in par. (1)(B), is Pub. L. 97–35, Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 357. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.