---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10384"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10384"
heading: "Limitation on use of funds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10384"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter XVI — Public Safety and Community Policing; “cops on the Beat”"
---

# §10384. Limitation on use of funds

- (a) **Nonsupplanting requirement—** Funds made available under this subchapter to [States](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) or units of local government shall not be used to supplant [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) or local funds, or, in the case of [Indian](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-18) [tribal governments](/usc/34/11103.md?p=45), funds supplied by the Bureau of [Indian](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-18) Affairs, but shall be used to increase the amount of funds that would, in the absence of Federal funds received under this subchapter, be made available from [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) or local sources, or in the case of [Indian](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-18) [tribal governments](/usc/34/11103.md?p=45), from funds supplied by the Bureau of [Indian](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-18) Affairs.
- (b) **Non-Federal costs—**
  - (1) **In general—** [States](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) and units of local government may use assets received through the Assets Forfeiture equitable sharing program to provide the non-Federal share of the cost of programs, projects, and activities funded under this subchapter.
  - (2) **Indian tribal governments—** Funds appropriated by the Congress for the activities of any agency of an [Indian](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-18) [tribal government](/usc/34/11103.md?p=45) or the Bureau of [Indian](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-18) Affairs performing [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) functions on any [Indian](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-18) lands may be used to provide the non-Federal share of the cost of programs or projects funded under this subchapter.
- (c) **Hiring costs—** Funding provided under this subchapter for hiring or rehiring a [career law enforcement officer](/usc/34/10389.md?p=1) may not exceed $75,000, unless the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) grants a waiver from this limitation.
- (d) **Guidance for understaffed law enforcement agencies—**
  - (1) **Definitions—** In this subsection:
    - (A) **Covered applicant—** The term “covered applicant” means an applicant for a hiring grant under this subchapter seeking funding for a [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) agency operating below the budgeted strength of the [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) agency.
    - (B) **Budgeted strength—** The term “budgeted strength” means the employment of the maximum number of sworn [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) officers the budget of a [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) agency allows the agency to employ.
  - (2) **Procedures—** Not later than 180 days after May 24, 2024, the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) shall establish consistent procedures for covered applicants, including guidance that—
    - (A) clarifies that covered applicants remain eligible for funding under this subchapter; and
    - (B) enables covered applicants to attest that the funding from a grant awarded under this subchapter is not being used by the [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) agency to supplant [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) or local funds, as described in [subsection (a)](#a).
  - (3) **Paperwork reduction—** In developing the procedures and guidance under [paragraph (2)](#d-2), the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) shall take measures to reduce paperwork requirements for grants to covered applicants.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 1704, as added Pub. L. 103–322, title I, § 10003(a)(3), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1812; amended Pub. L. 118–64, § 5, May 24, 2024, 138 Stat. 1436.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 3796dd–3 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Amendments

2024—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 118–64 added subsec. (d).