---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10493"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10493"
heading: "Uses of funds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10493"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter XXII — Support for Law Enforcement Officers and Families"
---

# §10493. Uses of funds

- (a) **In general—** A [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) or local [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) agency or organization that receives a grant under this subchapter[^1] shall use amounts provided under the grant to establish or improve training and support programs for [law enforcement personnel](/usc/34/10498.md?p=2).
- (b) **Required activities—** A [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) agency or organization that receives funds under this subchapter shall provide at least one of the following [services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51):
  - (1) Counseling for [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) officers and family members.
  - (2) Child care on a 24-hour basis.
  - (3) Marital and adolescent support groups.
  - (4) [Evidence-based](/usc/34/11103.md?p=34) programs to reduce stress, prevent suicide, and promote mental health.
  - (5) Stress education for [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) recruits and families.
  - (6) Technical assistance and training programs to support any or all of the [services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51) described in paragraphs [(1)](#b-1), [(2)](#b-2), [(3)](#b-3), [(4)](#b-4), and [(5)](#b-5).
- (c) **Optional activities—** A [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) agency or organization that receives funds under this subchapter may provide the following [services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51):
  - (1) Post-shooting debriefing for officers and their spouses.
  - (2) Group therapy.
  - (3) Hypertension clinics.
  - (4) Critical incident response on a 24-hour basis.
  - (5) [Law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) family crisis, mental health crisis, and suicide prevention telephone [services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51) on a 24-hour basis.
  - (6) Counseling for [law enforcement personnel](/usc/34/10498.md?p=2) exposed to infectious disease.
  - (7) Counseling for peers.
  - (8) Counseling for families of personnel killed, injured, or permanently disabled in the line of duty.
  - (9) Seminars regarding alcohol, drug use, gambling, and overeating.
  - (10) Specialized training for identifying, reporting, and responding to officer mental health crises and suicide.
  - (11) Technical assistance and training to support any or all of the [services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51) described in paragraphs [(1)](#c-1) through [(10)](#c-10).

## Footnotes

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

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 2303, as added Pub. L. 103–322, title XXI, § 210201(a)(3), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2062; amended Pub. L. 116–32, § 2(4), July 25, 2019, 133 Stat. 1036.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This subchapter, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original “this Act”, and was translated as reading “this part”, meaning part W of title I of Pub. L. 90–351, to reflect the probable intent of Congress.

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 3796jj–2 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Amendments

2019—Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 116–32, § 2(4)(A)(i), inserted “officers and” after “law enforcement”.

Subsec. (b)(4). Pub. L. 116–32, § 2(4)(A)(ii), amended par. (4) generally. Prior to amendment, par. (4) read as follows: “Stress reduction programs.”

Subsec. (c)(5). Pub. L. 116–32, § 2(4)(B)(i), inserted “, mental health crisis, and suicide prevention” after “family crisis”.

Subsec. (c)(6). Pub. L. 116–32, § 2(4)(B)(ii), substituted “infectious disease” for “the human immunodeficiency virus”.

Subsec. (c)(8). Pub. L. 116–32, § 2(4)(B)(iii), inserted “, injured, or permanently disabled” after “killed”.

Subsec. (c)(10), (11). Pub. L. 116–32, § 2(4)(B)(iv), added pars. (10) and (11) and struck out former par. (10) which read as follows: “Technical assistance and training to support any or all of the services described in paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), and (9).”