---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 20306"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "20306"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/20306"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Protection of Children and Other Persons"
  - "Chapter 203 — Victims of Child Abuse"
  - "Subchapter I — Improving Investigation and Prosecution of Child Abuse Cases"
---

# §20306. Authorization of appropriations


There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out sections [20303](/usc/34/20303.md), [20304](/usc/34/20304.md), and [20305](/usc/34/20305.md) of this title, $40,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2028.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–647, title II, § 214B, as added Pub. L. 117–354, § 3(6), Jan. 5, 2023, 136 Stat. 6277.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 20306, Pub. L. 101–647, title II, § 214B, formerly § 214, Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4794; renumbered § 214B and amended Pub. L. 102–586, § 6(b)(1), (e), Nov. 4, 1992, 106 Stat. 5029, 5034; Pub. L. 104–235, title II, § 232, Oct. 3, 1996, 110 Stat. 3092; Pub. L. 108–21, title III, § 381(b), Apr. 30, 2003, 117 Stat. 667; Pub. L. 113–163, § 2(a), Aug. 8, 2014, 128 Stat. 1864; Pub. L. 115–424, § 2(f), Jan. 7, 2019, 132 Stat. 5469, which authorized appropriations for sections 20303, 20304, and 20305 of this title for fiscal years 2019 through 2023, was repealed by Pub. L. 117–354, § 3(6), Jan. 5, 2023, 136 Stat. 6277.