---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 12559"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "12559"
heading: "State plan requirements"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/12559"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 121 — Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
  - "Subchapter VII — Police Corps and Law Enforcement Officers Training and Education"
  - "Part A — Police Corps"
---

# §12559. State plan requirements


A [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) Police Corps plan shall—

- (1) provide for the [screening](/usc/34/11103.md?p=37) and selection of participants in accordance with the criteria set out in [section 12556 of this title](/usc/34/12556.md);
- (2) [state](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) procedures governing the assignment of participants in the Police Corps program to [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) and local police forces (except with permission of the Director, no more than 25 percent of all the participants assigned in each year by each [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) to be assigned to a statewide police force or forces);
- (3) provide that participants shall be assigned to those geographic areas in which—
  - (A) there is the greatest need for additional [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) personnel; and
  - (B) the participants will be used most effectively;
- (4) provide that to the extent consistent with [paragraph (3)](#3), a participant shall be assigned to an area near the participant’s home or such other place as the participant may request;
- (5) provide that to the extent feasible, a participant’s assignment shall be made at the time the participant is accepted into the program, subject to change—
  - (A) prior to commencement of a participant’s fourth year of undergraduate study, under such circumstances as the plan may specify; and
  - (B) from commencement of a participant’s fourth year of undergraduate study until completion of 4 years of police service by participant, only for compelling reasons or to meet the needs of the [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) Police Corps program and only with the consent of the participant;
- (6) provide that no participant shall be assigned to serve with a local police force—
  - (A) whose size has declined by more than 5 percent since June 21, 1989; or
  - (B) which has members who have been laid off but not retired;
- (7) provide that participants shall be placed and to the extent feasible kept on community and preventive patrol;
- (8) ensure that participants will receive effective training and leadership;
- (9) provide that the [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) may decline to offer a participant an appointment following completion of Federal training, or may remove a participant from the Police Corps program at any time, only for good cause (including failure to make satisfactory progress in a course of educational study) and after following reasonable review procedures stated in the plan; and
- (10) provide that a participant shall, while serving as a member of a police force, be compensated at the same rate of pay and benefits and enjoy the same rights under applicable agreements with labor organizations and under [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) and local law as other police officers of the same rank and tenure in the police force of which the participant is a member.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–322, title XX, § 200110, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2056; Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title I, § 11006(3), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1817.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 14099 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Amendments

2002—Par. (2). Pub. L. 107–273 substituted “except with permission of the Director, no more than 25 percent” for “no more than 10 percent”.