---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 30504"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "30504"
heading: "Grant program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/30504"
units:
  - "Subtitle III — Prevention of Particular Crimes"
  - "Chapter 305 — Hate Crimes"
---

# §30504. Grant program

- (a) **Authority to award grants—** The Office of Justice Programs of the Department of Justice may award grants, in accordance with such regulations as the Attorney General may prescribe, to [State](/usc/34/30502.md?p=4), [local](/usc/34/30502.md?p=3), or tribal programs designed to combat [hate crimes](/usc/34/30502.md?p=2) committed by juveniles, including programs to train [local](/usc/34/30502.md?p=3) law enforcement officers in identifying, investigating, prosecuting, and preventing [hate crimes](/usc/34/30502.md?p=2).
- (b) **Authorization of appropriations—** There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–84, div. E, § 4705, Oct. 28, 2009, 123 Stat. 2838.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 3716a of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.