---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 2996i"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "2996i"
heading: "Financing"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/2996i"
units:
  - "Chapter 34 — Economic Opportunity Program"
  - "Subchapter X — Legal Services Corporation"
---

# §2996i. Financing

- (a) **Authorization of appropriations—** There are authorized to be appropriated for the purpose of carrying out the activities of the [Corporation](/usc/42/2996a.md?p=2), $90,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, and such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 1977. There are authorized to be appropriated for the purpose of carrying out the activities of the [Corporation](/usc/42/2996a.md?p=2) $205,000,000 for the fiscal year 1978, and such sums as may be necessary for each of the two succeeding fiscal years. The first appropriation may be made available to the [Corporation](/usc/42/2996a.md?p=2) at any time after six or more members of the [Board](/usc/42/2996a.md?p=1) have been appointed and qualified. Appropriations for that purpose shall be made for not more than two fiscal years, and shall be paid to the [Corporation](/usc/42/2996a.md?p=2) in annual installments at the beginning of each fiscal year in such amounts as may be specified in Acts of Congress making appropriations.
- (b) **Availability of funds—** Funds appropriated pursuant to this section shall remain available until expended.
- (c) **Non-Federal funds—** Non-Federal funds received by the [Corporation](/usc/42/2996a.md?p=2), and funds received by any [recipient](/usc/42/2996a.md?p=6) from a source other than the [Corporation](/usc/42/2996a.md?p=2), shall be accounted for and reported as receipts and disbursements separate and distinct from Federal funds; but any funds so received for the provision of [legal assistance](/usc/42/2996a.md?p=5) shall not be expended by [recipients](/usc/42/2996a.md?p=6) for any purpose prohibited by this subchapter, except that this provision shall not be construed to prevent [recipients](/usc/42/2996a.md?p=6) from receiving other public funds or tribal funds (including foundation funds benefiting Indians or Indian tribes) and expending them in accordance with the purposes for which they are provided, or to prevent contracting or making other arrangements with private attorneys, private law firms, or other [State](/usc/42/2996a.md?p=8) or local entities of attorneys, or with legal aid societies having separate public defender programs, for the provision of [legal assistance](/usc/42/2996a.md?p=5) to [eligible clients](/usc/42/2996a.md?p=3) under this subchapter.
- (d) **Limitations on grant or contract authority—** Not more than 10 percent of the amounts appropriated pursuant to [subsection (a)](#a) of this section for any fiscal year shall be available for grants or contracts under [section 2996e(a)(3) of this title](/usc/42/2996e.md?p=a-3) in any such year.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 88–452, title X, § 1010, as added Pub. L. 93–355, § 2, July 25, 1974, 88 Stat. 388; amended Pub. L. 95–222, §§ 5(c), 15, Dec. 28, 1977, 91 Stat. 1619, 1623.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1977—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 95–222, § 15, inserted provisions authorizing appropriations for fiscal year 1978 and two succeeding fiscal years, and substituted provisions requiring appropriations to be made for not more than two fiscal years and payments in annual installments at beginning of each fiscal year in appropriated amounts, for provisions requiring appropriations to be for not more than two fiscal years, and, if for more than one year, in payments in annual installments at beginning of each fiscal year in appropriated amounts.

Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 95–222, § 5(c), added subsec. (d).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1977 Amendment

Amendment by section 5(c) of Pub. L. 95–222 effective Dec. 28, 1977, see section 17(b) of Pub. L. 95–222, set out as a note under section 2996 of this title.

Pub. L. 95–222, § 17(a)(2), Dec. 28, 1977, 91 Stat. 1624, provided that: “The amendment made by section 15 of this Act [amending this section] shall be effective with respect to fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1977.”