7 U.S.C. § 361h — Relation of college or university to State unaffected; division of appropriations

This section protects each state's existing arrangements with its research institutions and explains how funds get divided when a state has more than one. Nothing in sections 361a through 361i changes the legal relationship between a state government and the colleges or universities that run that state's agricultural experiment stations. That relationship stays exactly as it was. Some states have agricultural experiment stations that are separate from any college or university — stations that state law set up on their own. Those states may use this law's funding for research done at those separately established stations too. But there's a condition: if a state has more than one college, university, or agricultural experiment station eligible for this money, the state's own legislature decides how to divide the funds between them.