---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 5116b"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "5116b"
heading: "Amount of grant"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/5116b"
units:
  - "Chapter 67 — Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment and Adoption Reform"
  - "Subchapter III — Community-Based Grants for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect"
---

# §5116b. Amount of grant

- (a) **Reservation—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) shall reserve 1 percent of the amount appropriated under [section 5116i](/usc/42/5116i.md)[^1] of this title for a fiscal year to make allotments to Indian tribes and tribal organizations and migrant programs.
- (b) **Remaining amounts—**
  - (1) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) shall allot the amount appropriated under [section 5116i](/usc/42/5116i.md)[^1] of this title for a fiscal year and remaining after the reservation under [subsection (a)](#a) among the [States](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) as follows:
    - (A) **70 percent—** 70 percent of such amount appropriated shall be allotted among the [States](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) by allotting to each [State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) an amount that bears the same proportion to such amount appropriated as the number of children under the age of 18 residing in the [State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) bears to the total number of children under the age of 18 residing in all [States](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) (except that no [State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) shall receive less than $175,000 under this subparagraph).
    - (B) **30 percent—** 30 percent of such amount appropriated shall be allotted among the [States](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) by allotting to each [State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) an amount that bears the same proportion to such amount appropriated as the amount of private, [State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) or other non-Federal funds leveraged and directed through the currently designated [State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) lead entity in the preceding fiscal year bears to the aggregate of the amounts leveraged by all [States](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) from private, [State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14), or other non-Federal sources and directed through the current lead entity of such [States](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) in the preceding fiscal year.
  - (2) **Additional requirement—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) shall provide allotments under [paragraph (1)](#b-1) to the [State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) lead entity.
- (c) **Allocation—** Funds allotted to a [State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) under this section—
  - (1) shall be for a 3-year period; and
  - (2) shall be provided by the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) to the [State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) on an annual basis, as described in [subsection (b)](#b).

## Footnotes

[^1]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–247, title II, § 203, as added Pub. L. 104–235, title I, § 121, Oct. 3, 1996, 110 Stat. 3082; amended Pub. L. 108–36, title I, § 123, June 25, 2003, 117 Stat. 815; Pub. L. 111–320, title I, § 134, Dec. 20, 2010, 124 Stat. 3479.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Section 5116i of this title, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (b)(1), was in the original “section 210”, and was translated as meaning section 209 of Pub. L. 93–247 to reflect the probable intent of Congress and the redesignation of section 210 as 209 by Pub. L. 111–320, title I, § 141, Dec. 20, 2010, 124 Stat. 3482.

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 5116b, Pub. L. 93–247, title II, § 203, formerly Pub. L. 98–473, title IV, § 404, Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 2197; renumbered § 203 of Pub. L. 93–247, and amended Pub. L. 101–126, §§ 2(a), 3(a)(3), (c)(1), 4(c), 5, Oct. 25, 1989, 103 Stat. 764, 766–768; Pub. L. 102–295, title I, § 122, May 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 198, authorized Secretary to make grants and authorized appropriations to carry out this subchapter, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 103–252, § 401(a).

### Amendments

2010—Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 111–320 inserted subpar. headings.

2003—Subsec. (b)(1)(B). Pub. L. 108–36, § 123(1), substituted “as the amount of private, State or other non-Federal funds leveraged and directed through the currently designated” for “as the amount leveraged by the State from private, State, or other non-Federal sources and directed through the”, “State lead entity” for “State lead agency”, and “the current lead entity” for “the lead agency”.

Subsec. (c)(2). Pub. L. 108–36, § 123(2), substituted “subsection (b)” for “subsection (a)”.