---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 12373"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "12373"
heading: "Cooperation in developing programs in making grants under this part"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/12373"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 121 — Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
  - "Subchapter III — Violence Against Women"
  - "Part D — Equal Justice for Women in Courts"
  - "Subpart 1 — education and training for judges and court personnel in state courts"
---

# §12373. Cooperation in developing programs in making grants under this part


The [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) Justice Institute shall ensure that model programs carried out pursuant to grants made under this part are developed with the participation of [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) officials, public and private nonprofit [victim advocates](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-48), including national, [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7), tribal, and local [domestic violence](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-12) and [sexual assault](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-35) programs and coalitions, legal experts, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and recognized experts on gender bias in the [courts](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-7).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–322, title IV, § 40413, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1944; Pub. L. 106–386, div. B, title IV, § 1406(c)(1), Oct. 28, 2000, 114 Stat. 1516.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 13993 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Amendments

2000—Pub. L. 106–386 inserted “, including national, State, tribal, and local domestic violence and sexual assault programs and coalitions” after “victim advocates”.