---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 U.S.C. § 7303"
title: "31"
title_heading: "Money and Finance"
number: "7303"
heading: "Reports and public hearings on proposed uses of amounts"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/31/7303"
units:
  - "Subtitle V — General Assistance Administration"
  - "Chapter 73 — Administering Block Grants"
---

# §7303. Reports and public hearings on proposed uses of amounts

- (a)
  - (1) The chief executive officer of each [State](/usc/31/6201.md?p=2) shall prepare for each fiscal year a report on the proposed use during the fiscal year of [block grant amounts](/usc/31/7302.md?p=1) received by the [State](/usc/31/6201.md?p=2). The report shall include—
    - (A) a statement of goals and objectives;
    - (B) information on the types of activities to be supported, geographic areas to be served, and categories or characteristics of individuals to be served; and
    - (C) the criteria for, and way of, distributing the amounts, including details on the way amounts will be distributed on the basis of need to carry out the purposes of the [block grant amounts](/usc/31/7302.md?p=1).
  - (2) Beginning with the fiscal year ending September 30, 1983, each report shall describe how the [State](/usc/31/6201.md?p=2) met the goals, objectives, and needs in using the amounts described in the report for the prior fiscal year.
- (b) A [State](/usc/31/6201.md?p=2) may not receive [block grant amounts](/usc/31/7302.md?p=1) for a fiscal year until the [State](/usc/31/6201.md?p=2) conducts a public hearing, after adequate public notice, on the proposed use and distribution of the amounts set out in the report prepared under [subsection (a)](#a) of this section for the fiscal year.
- (c) Each report prepared under [subsection (a)](#a) of this section and changes to the report shall be made public in the [State](/usc/31/6201.md?p=2) on a timely basis and in a way that encourages comments from interested [local government](/usc/31/6302.md?p=3) and persons.

## 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) |
| 7303 | 31:1243(note). | Aug. 13, 1981, Pub. L. 97–35, § 1742, 95 Stat. 763. |

In subsection (a)(1), before clause (A), the words “for each fiscal year” and “during the fiscal year” are substituted for “for the previous fiscal year” for clarity.

In subsection (b), the words “by the State” are omitted as surplus.

In subsection (c), the words “by a State” are omitted as surplus.