---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 12576"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "12576"
heading: "State application"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/12576"
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"
---

# §12576. State application

- (a) **In general—** Each [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) desiring an allotment under [section 12572 of this title](/usc/34/12572.md) shall submit an application to the Director at such time, in such manner, and accompanied by such information as the Director may reasonably require.
- (b) **Contents—** An application under [subsection (a)](#a) shall—
  - (1) describe the scholarship program and the student employment program for which assistance under this part is sought;
  - (2) contain assurances that the lead agency will work in cooperation with the local [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) liaisons, representatives of police labor organizations and police management organizations, and other appropriate [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) and local agencies to develop and implement interagency agreements designed to carry out this part;
  - (3) contain assurances that the [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) will advertise the scholarship assistance and student employment it will provide under this part and that the [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) will use such programs to enhance recruitment efforts;
  - (4) contain assurances that the [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) will screen and select [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) personnel for participation in the scholarship program under this part;
  - (5) contain assurances that under such student employment program the [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) will screen and select, for participation in such program, students who have an interest in undertaking a career in [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23);
  - (6) contain assurances that under such scholarship program the [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) will make scholarship payments to institutions of higher education on behalf of persons who receive scholarships under this part;
  - (7) with respect to such student employment program, identify—
    - (A) the employment tasks that students will be assigned to perform;
    - (B) the compensation that students will be paid to perform such tasks; and
    - (C) the training that students will receive as part of their participation in the program;
  - (8) identify model curriculum and existing programs designed to meet the educational and professional needs of [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) personnel; and
  - (9) contain assurances that the [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) will promote cooperative agreements with educational and [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) agencies to enhance [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) personnel recruitment efforts in institutions of higher education.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–322, title XX, § 200207, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2059.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 14116 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.