---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10566"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10566"
heading: "Reports"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10566"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter XXVII — Paul Coverdell Forensic Sciences Improvement Grants"
---

# §10566. Reports

- (a) **Reports to Attorney General—** For each fiscal year for which a grant is awarded under this subchapter, each [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) or [unit of local government](/usc/34/10554.md?p=2) that receives such a grant shall submit to the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) a report, at such time and in such manner as the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) may reasonably require, which report shall include—
  - (1) a summary and [assessment](/usc/34/11103.md?p=38) of the program carried out with the grant, which shall include a comparison of pre-grant and post-grant forensic science capabilities;
  - (2) the average number of days between submission of a sample to a forensic science laboratory or forensic science laboratory system in that [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) operated by the [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) or by a [unit of local government](/usc/34/10554.md?p=2) and the delivery of test results to the requesting office or agency;
  - (3) an identification of the number and type of cases currently accepted by the laboratory;
  - (4) the progress of any unaccredited forensic science service provider receiving grant funds toward obtaining accreditation; and
  - (5) such other information as the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) may require.
- (b) **Reports to Congress—** Not later than 90 days after the last day of each fiscal year for which 1 or more grants are awarded under this subchapter, the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) shall submit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate, a report, which shall include—
  - (1) the aggregate amount of grants awarded under this subchapter for that fiscal year; and
  - (2) a summary of the information provided under [subsection (a)](#a).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 2806, as added Pub. L. 106–561, § 2(c)(1), Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2790; amended Pub. L. 107–273, div. B, title V, § 5001(b)(5), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1814; Pub. L. 114–324, § 9(a)(4), Dec. 16, 2016, 130 Stat. 1955.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

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

### Amendments

2016—Subsec. (a)(4), (5). Pub. L. 114–324 added par. (4) and redesignated former par. (4) as (5).

2002—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 107–273, § 5001(b)(5)(A), inserted “or unit of local government” after “each State” in introductory provisions.

Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 107–273, § 5001(b)(5)(B), inserted “, which shall include a comparison of pre-grant and post-grant forensic science capabilities” before semicolon at end.

Subsec. (a)(3), (4). Pub. L. 107–273, § 5001(b)(5)(C)–(E), added par. (3) and redesignated former par. (3) as (4).