---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 20107"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "20107"
heading: "Crime victims legal assistance grants"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/20107"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Protection of Children and Other Persons"
  - "Chapter 201 — Victim Rights, Compensation, and Assistance"
  - "Subchapter I — Crime Victims Fund"
---

# §20107. Crime victims legal assistance grants

- (a) **In general—** The Director may make grants as provided in [section 20103(c)(1)(A) of this title](/usc/34/20103.md?p=c-1-A) to [State](/usc/34/10105.md), tribal, and local prosecutors’ [offices](/usc/34/50301.md?p=6), law enforcement agencies, courts, jails, and correctional institutions, and to qualified public and private entities, to develop, establish, and maintain [programs](/usc/34/60701.md?p=2) for the enforcement of crime victims’ rights as provided in law.
- (b) **Prohibition—** Grant amounts under [this section](/usc/34/50105.md) may not be used to bring a cause of action for damages.
- (c) **False Claims Act—** Notwithstanding any other provision of law, amounts collected pursuant to [sections 3729 through 3731](/usc/31/3729..3731.md) of title 31 (commonly known as the “False Claims Act”) may be used for grants under [this section](/usc/34/50105.md), subject to appropriation.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 1404D, as added Pub. L. 108–405, title I, § 103(a), Oct. 30, 2004, 118 Stat. 2264.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 10603d of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.