---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 21303"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "21303"
heading: "Increased funding for formula grants authorized"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/21303"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Protection of Children and Other Persons"
  - "Chapter 213 — Rape Survivor Child Custody"
---

# §21303. Increased funding for formula grants authorized


The Attorney General shall increase the amount provided to a [State](/usc/34/21701.md?p=3) under the [covered formula grants](/usc/34/21301.md?p=1) in accordance with this chapter if the [State](/usc/34/21701.md?p=3) has in place a law that allows the mother of any child that was conceived through rape to seek court-ordered [termination](/usc/34/21301.md?p=2-A) of the parental rights of her rapist with regard to that child, which the court is authorized to grant upon clear and convincing evidence of rape.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 114–22, title IV, § 404, May 29, 2015, 129 Stat. 257.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 14043h–2 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.