---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 12575"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "12575"
heading: "Eligibility"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/12575"
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"
---

# §12575. Eligibility

- (a) **Scholarships—** A person shall be eligible to receive a scholarship under this part if the person has been employed in [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) for the 2-year period immediately preceding the date on which assistance is sought.
- (b) **Ineligibility for student employment—** A person who has been employed as a [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) officer is ineligible to participate in a student employment program carried out under this part.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–322, title XX, § 200206, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2059.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 14115 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.