---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 12401"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "12401"
heading: "Grant program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/12401"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 121 — Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
  - "Subchapter III — Violence Against Women"
  - "Part F — National Stalker and Domestic Violence Reduction"
---

# §12401. Grant program

- (a) **In general—** The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) is authorized to provide grants to [States](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) and units of local government to improve and implement processes for entering data regarding [stalking](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-36) and [domestic violence](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-12) into local, [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7), and [national crime information databases](/usc/34/12410.md?p=1).
- (b) **Eligibility—** To be eligible to receive a grant under [subsection (a)](#a), a [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) or [unit of local government](/usc/34/11103.md?p=8) shall certify that it has or intends to establish a program that enters into the National Crime Information Center records of—
  - (1) warrants for the arrest of persons violating [protection orders](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-29) intended to protect victims from [stalking](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-36) or [domestic violence](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-12);
  - (2) arrests or convictions of persons violating protection[^1] or [domestic violence](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-12); and
  - (3) [protection orders](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-29) for the protection of persons from [stalking](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-36) or [domestic violence](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-12).

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be followed by “orders intended to protect victims from stalking”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–322, title IV, § 40602, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1951; Pub. L. 106–386, div. B, title I, § 1106(b), Oct. 28, 2000, 114 Stat. 1497.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 14031 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Amendments

2000—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 106–386 inserted “and implement” after “improve”.