---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 11278"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "11278"
heading: "Performance standards"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/11278"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 111 — Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention"
  - "Subchapter III — Runaway and Homeless Youth"
  - "Part F — General Provisions"
---

# §11278. Performance standards

- (a) **Establishment of performance standards—** Not later than 1 year after October 8, 2008, the Secretary shall issue rules that specify performance standards for public and nonprofit private entities and agencies that receive grants under sections [11211](/usc/34/11211.md), [11221](/usc/34/11221.md), and [11261](/usc/34/11261.md) of this title.
- (b) **Consultation—** The Secretary shall consult with representatives of public and nonprofit private entities and agencies that receive grants under this subchapter, including statewide and regional [nonprofit organizations](/usc/34/11103.md?p=23) (including [combinations](/usc/34/11103.md?p=9) of such organizations) that receive grants under this subchapter, and national [nonprofit organizations](/usc/34/11103.md?p=23) concerned with [youth](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-52) homelessness, in developing the performance standards required by [subsection (a)](#a).
- (c) **Implementation of performance standards—** The Secretary shall integrate the performance standards into the processes of the Department of Health and Human [Services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51) for grantmaking, monitoring, and evaluation for programs under sections [11211](/usc/34/11211.md), [11221](/usc/34/11221.md), and [11261](/usc/34/11261.md) of this title.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–415, title III, § 386A, as added Pub. L. 110–378, § 8, Oct. 8, 2008, 122 Stat. 4071.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 5732–1 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.