---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10492"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10492"
heading: "General authorization"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10492"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter XXII — Support for Law Enforcement Officers and Families"
---

# §10492. General authorization


The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) may make grants to [States](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) and local [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) agencies and to organizations representing [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) or local [law enforcement personnel](/usc/34/10498.md?p=2) to provide family support [services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51) and mental health [services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51) to [law enforcement personnel](/usc/34/10498.md?p=2).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 2302, as added Pub. L. 103–322, title XXI, § 210201(a)(3), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2062; amended Pub. L. 116–32, § 2(3), July 25, 2019, 133 Stat. 1036.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 3796jj–1 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Amendments

2019—Pub. L. 116–32 inserted “and mental health services” after “family support services”.