---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 15115"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "15115"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/15115"
units:
  - "Chapter 144 — Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights"
  - "Subchapter III — Program for Direct Support Workers Who Assist Individuals with Developmental Disabilities"
---

# §15115. Authorization of appropriations

- (a) **Scholarships—** There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out [section 15113 of this title](/usc/42/15113.md) $800,000 for fiscal year 2001 and such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal years 2002 through 2007.
- (b) **Staff development curriculum—** There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out [section 15114 of this title](/usc/42/15114.md) $800,000 for fiscal year 2001 and such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal years 2002 and 2003.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–402, title III, § 305, Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1737.)