---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 12574"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "12574"
heading: "Scholarships"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/12574"
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 B — Law Enforcement Scholarship Program"
---

# §12574. Scholarships

- (a) **Period of award—** Scholarships awarded under this part shall be for a period of 1 academic year.
- (b) **Use of scholarships—** Each individual awarded a scholarship under this part may use the scholarship for educational expenses at an institution of higher education.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–322, title XX, § 200205, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2059.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 14114 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.