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34 USC § 10301 - Purposes 

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identifier: "/us/usc/t34/s10301"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "34 USC § 10301 - Purposes"
title_number: 34
title_name: "CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT"
section_number: "10301"
section_name: "Purposes"
chapter_number: 101
chapter_name: "JUSTICE SYSTEM IMPROVEMENT"
subchapter_number: "XI"
subchapter_name: "PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS’ DEATH BENEFITS"
part_number: "B"
part_name: "Educational Assistance to Dependents of Civilian Federal Law Enforcement Officers Killed or Disabled in Line of Duty"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 1211, as added Pub. L. 104–238, § 2(2), Oct. 3, 1996, 110 Stat. 3114; amended Pub. L. 105–390, § 2(2), Nov. 13, 1998, 112 Stat. 3495.)"
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# § 10301. Purposes

The purposes of this part are—

**(1)** to enhance the appeal of service in public safety agencies;

**(2)** to extend the benefits of higher education to qualified and deserving persons who, by virtue of the death of or total disability of an eligible officer, may not be able to afford it otherwise; and

**(3)** to allow the family members of eligible officers to attain the vocational and educational status which they would have attained had a parent or spouse not been killed or disabled in the line of duty.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 1211, as added Pub. L. 104–238, § 2(2), Oct. 3, 1996, 110 Stat. 3114; amended Pub. L. 105–390, § 2(2), Nov. 13, 1998, 112 Stat. 3495.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to , The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Amendments

1998—Par. (1).  substituted “public safety” for “civilian Federal law enforcement”.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title

For short title of , which enacted this subchapter, as the “Federal Law Enforcement Dependents Assistance Act of 1996”, see , set out as a Short Title of 1996 Act note under .