---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10561"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10561"
heading: "Grant authorization"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10561"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter XXVII — Paul Coverdell Forensic Sciences Improvement Grants"
---

# §10561. Grant authorization


The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) shall award grants to [States](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) and units of local government in accordance with this subchapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 2801, as added Pub. L. 106–561, § 2(c)(1), Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2788; amended Pub. L. 107–273, div. B, title V, § 5001(b)(1), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1813.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 3797j of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Amendments

2002—Pub. L. 107–273 inserted “and units of local government” after “States”.