Title 38 U.S.C. — Veterans' Benefits
1197 sections
- § 101 — Definitions
- § 102 — Dependent parents
- § 103 — Special provisions relating to marriages
- § 104 — Approval of educational institutions
- § 105 — Line of duty and misconduct
- § 106 — Certain service deemed to be active service
- § 107 — Certain service deemed not to be active service
- § 108 — Seven-year absence presumption of death
- § 109 — Benefits for discharged members of allied forces
- § 110 — Preservation of disability ratings
- § 111 — Payments or allowances for beneficiary travel
- § 111A — Transportation of individuals to and from Department facilities
- § 112 — Presidential memorial certificate program
- § 113 — Treatment of certain programs under sequestration procedures
- § 114 — Multiyear procurement
- § 115 — Acquisition of real property
- § 116 — Reports to Congress: cost information
- § 117 — Advance appropriations for certain accounts
- § 118 — Submission of reports to Congress in electronic form
- § 119 — Contracting for statistical analyses and data evaluation
- § 301 — Department
- § 302 — Seal
- § 303 — Secretary of Veterans Affairs
- § 304 — Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs
- § 305 — Under Secretary for Health
- § 306 — Under Secretary for Benefits
- § 307 — Under Secretary for Memorial Affairs
- § 308 — Assistant Secretaries; Deputy Assistant Secretaries
- § 309 — Chief Financial Officer
- § 310 — Chief Information Officer
- § 311 — General Counsel
- § 312 — Inspector General
- § 312A — Director of Construction and Facilities Management
- § 313 — Availability of appropriations
- § 314 — Central Office
- § 315 — Regional offices
- § 316 — Colocation of regional offices and medical centers
- § 317 — Center for Minority Veterans
- § 318 — Center for Women Veterans
- § 319 — Office of Employment Discrimination Complaint Adjudication
- § 320 — Department of Veterans Affairs-Department of Defense Joint Executive Committee
- § 321 — Office of Survivors Assistance
- § 322 — Office of National Veterans Sports Programs and Special Events
- § 323 — Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection
- § 324 — Cost of War Toxic Exposures Fund
- § 325 — Veterans experience office 11 So in original. Probably should be “Veterans Experience Office”.
- § 501 — Rules and regulations
- § 502 — Judicial review of rules and regulations
- § 503 — Administrative error; equitable relief
- § 505 — Opinions of Attorney General
- § 510 — Authority to reorganize offices
- § 511 — Decisions of the Secretary; finality
- § 512 — Delegation of authority; assignment of functions and duties
- § 513 — Contracts and personal services
- § 515 — Administrative settlement of tort claims
- § 516 — Equal employment responsibilities
- § 517 — Quarterly reports to Congress on conferences sponsored by the Department
- § 521 — Assistance to certain rehabilitation activities
- § 521A — Adaptive sports programs for disabled veterans and members of the Armed Forces
- § 522 — Studies of rehabilitation of disabled persons
- § 523 — Coordination and promotion of other programs affecting veterans and their dependents
- § 525 — Publication of laws relating to veterans
- § 527 — Evaluation and data collection
- § 529 — Annual report to Congress
- § 530 — Annual report on program and expenditures for domestic response to weapons of mass destruction
- § 531 — Requirements relating to naming of Department property
- § 532 — Authority to advertise in national media; VetStar Award Program
- § 533 — Anti-harassment and anti-sexual assault policy
- § 541 — Advisory Committee on Former Prisoners of War
- § 542 — Advisory Committee on Women Veterans
- § 543 — Advisory Committee on Prosthetics and Special-Disabilities Programs
- § 544 — Advisory Committee on Minority Veterans
- § 545 — Advisory Committee on the Readjustment of Veterans
- § 546 — Advisory Committee on Disability Compensation
- § 547 — Advisory Committee on Tribal and Indian Affairs
- § 548 — Advisory Committee on United States Outlying Areas and Freely Associated States
- § 701 — Placement of employees in military installations
- § 703 — Miscellaneous authorities respecting employees
- § 704 — Waiver of pay limitation for certain employees
- § 705 — Telephone service for medical officers and facility directors
- § 706 — Additional authority relating to recruitment and retention of personnel
- § 707 — Benefits for employees at overseas offices who are United States citizens
- § 709 — Employment restrictions
- § 711 — Grade reductions
- § 712 — Repealed. Pub. L. 107–103, title V, § 509(a)(1), Dec. 27, 2001, 115 Stat. 997]
- § 713 — Senior executives: removal, demotion, or suspension based on performance or misconduct
- § 714 — Employees: removal, demotion, or suspension based on performance or misconduct
- § 715 — Congressional testimony by employees: treatment as official duty
- § 717 — Limitation on administrative leave
- § 719 — Reduction of benefits of employees convicted of certain crimes
- § 721 — Recoupment of bonuses or awards paid to employees of Department
- § 723 — Recoupment of relocation expenses paid on behalf of employees of Department
- § 725 — Annual performance plan for political appointees
- § 726 — Annual report on performance awards and bonuses awarded to certain high-level employees
- § 727 — Reassignment of senior executives
- § 728 — Misuse of Department purchase cards
- § 731 — Adverse actions against supervisory employees who commit prohibited personnel actions relating to whistleblower complaints
- § 732 — Protection of whistleblowers as criteria in evaluation of supervisors
- § 733 — Training regarding whistleblower disclosures
- § 734 — Repealed. Pub. L. 115–41, title I, § 102(a)(1), June 23, 2017, 131 Stat. 865]
- § 741 — Executive Management Fellowship Program
- § 901 — Authority to prescribe rules for conduct and penalties for violations
- § 902 — Enforcement and arrest authority of Department police officers
- § 903 — Uniform allowance
- § 904 — Equipment and weapons
- § 905 — Use of facilities and services of other law enforcement agencies
- § 1101 — Definitions
- § 1102 — Special provisions relating to surviving spouses
- § 1103 — Special provisions relating to claims based upon effects of tobacco products
- § 1104 — Cost-of-living adjustments
- § 1110 — Basic entitlement
- § 1111 — Presumption of sound condition
- § 1112 — Presumptions relating to certain diseases and disabilities
- § 1113 — Presumptions rebuttable
- § 1114 — Rates of wartime disability compensation
- § 1115 — Additional compensation for dependents
- § 1116 — Presumptions of service connection for diseases associated with exposure to certain herbicide agents; presumption of exposure for veterans who served in certain locations
- § 1116A — Presumptions of service connection for veterans who served offshore of the Republic of Vietnam
- § 1116B — Presumption of herbicide exposure for certain veterans who served in Korea
- § 1117 — Compensation for disabilities occurring in Persian Gulf War veterans
- § 1118 — Presumptions of service connection for illnesses associated with service in the Persian Gulf during the Persian Gulf War
- § 1119 — Presumptions of toxic exposure
- § 1120 — Presumption of service connection for certain diseases associated with exposure to burn pits and other toxins
- § 1121 — Basic entitlement
- § 1122 — Rates of wartime death compensation
- § 1131 — Basic entitlement
- § 1132 — Presumption of sound condition
- § 1133 — Presumptions relating to certain diseases
- § 1134 — Rates of peacetime disability compensation
- § 1135 — Additional compensation for dependents
- § 1136 — Vacant]
- § 1137 — Wartime presumptions for certain veterans
- § 1141 — Basic entitlement
- § 1142 — Rates of peacetime death compensation
- § 1143 — Vacant]
- § 1151 — Benefits for persons disabled by treatment or vocational rehabilitation
- § 1152 — Persons heretofore having a compensable status
- § 1153 — Aggravation
- § 1154 — Consideration to be accorded time, place, and circumstances of service
- § 1155 — Authority for schedule for rating disabilities
- § 1156 — Temporary disability ratings
- § 1157 — Combination of certain ratings
- § 1158 — Disappearance
- § 1159 — Protection of service connection
- § 1160 — Special consideration for certain cases of loss of paired organs or extremities
- § 1161 — Payment of disability compensation in disability severance cases
- § 1162 — Clothing allowance
- § 1163 — Trial work periods and vocational rehabilitation for certain veterans with total disability ratings
- § 1164 — Presumptions of service-connection for Coronavirus Disease 2019
- § 1165 — Choice of sex of medical examiner for certain disabilities
- § 1166 — Claims involving military sexual trauma
- § 1167 — Mental health consultations
- § 1168 — Medical nexus examinations for toxic exposure risk activities
- § 1171 — Procedures to determine presumptions of service connection based on toxic exposure; definitions
- § 1172 — Annual notice and opportunity for public comment
- § 1173 — Formal evaluation of recommendations
- § 1174 — Regulations regarding presumptions of service connection based on toxic exposure
- § 1175 — Authority to modify process; congressional oversight
- § 1176 — Agreement with National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine concerning toxic exposures
- § 1301 — Definitions
- § 1302 — Determination of pay grade
- § 1303 — Cost-of-living adjustments
- § 1304 — Special provisions relating to surviving spouses
- § 1305 — Reevaluation of dependency and indemnity compensation determinations pursuant to changes in presumptions of service connection
- § 1310 — Deaths entitling survivors to dependency and indemnity compensation
- § 1311 — Dependency and indemnity compensation to a surviving spouse
- § 1312 — Benefits in certain cases of in-service or service-connected deaths
- § 1313 — Dependency and indemnity compensation to children
- § 1314 — Supplemental dependency and indemnity compensation to children
- § 1315 — Dependency and indemnity compensation to parents
- § 1316 — Dependency and indemnity compensation in cases of prior deaths
- § 1317 — Restriction on payments under this chapter
- § 1318 — Benefits for survivors of certain veterans rated totally disabled at time of death
- § 1321 — Certifications with respect to pay grade
- § 1322 — Certifications with respect to social security entitlement
- § 1323 — Certifications with respect to circumstances of death
- § 1501 — Definitions
- § 1502 — Determinations with respect to disability
- § 1503 — Determinations with respect to annual income
- § 1504 — Persons heretofore having a pensionable status
- § 1505 — Payment of pension during confinement in penal institutions
- § 1506 — Resource reports and overpayment adjustments
- § 1507 — Disappearance
- § 1508 — Frequency of payment of pension benefits
- § 1510 — Vacant]
- § 1511 — Indian War veterans
- § 1512 — Spanish-American War veterans
- § 1513 — Veterans 65 years of age and older
- § 1521 — Veterans of a period of war
- § 1522 — Net worth limitation
- § 1523 — Combination of ratings
- § 1524 — Vocational training for certain pension recipients
- § 1525 — Protection of health-care eligibility
- § 1531 — Vacant]
- § 1532 — Surviving spouses of Civil War veterans
- § 1533 — Children of Civil War veterans
- § 1534 — Surviving spouses of Indian War veterans
- § 1535 — Children of Indian War veterans
- § 1536 — Surviving spouses of Spanish-American War veterans
- § 1537 — Children of Spanish-American War veterans
- § 1541 — Surviving spouses of veterans of a period of war
- § 1542 — Children of veterans of a period of war
- § 1543 — Net worth limitation
- § 1544 — Vacant]
- § 1560, — Repealed. Pub. L. 113–66, div. A, title V, § 563(c)(1), Dec. 26, 2013, 127 Stat. 768]
- § 1562 — Special provisions relating to pension
- § 1701 — Definitions
- § 1702 — Presumptions: psychosis after service in World War II and following periods of war; mental illness after service in the Persian Gulf War
- § 1703 — Veterans Community Care Program
- § 1703A — Agreements with eligible entities or providers; certification processes
- § 1703B — Access standards
- § 1703C — Standards for quality
- § 1703D — Prompt payment standard
- § 1703E — Center for Innovation for Care and Payment
- § 1703F — Credentialing verification requirements for providers of non-Department health care services
- § 1703G — Quarterly report on referrals for non-Department health care
- § 1704 — Preventive health services: annual report
- § 1704A — Independent assessments of health care delivery systems and management processes
- § 1705 — Management of health care: patient enrollment system
- § 1705A — Management of health care: information regarding health-plan contracts
- § 1706 — Management of health care: other requirements
- § 1706A — Remediation of medical service lines
- § 1707 — Limitations
- § 1708 — Temporary lodging
- § 1709 — Comprehensive policy on reporting and tracking sexual assault incidents and other safety incidents
- § 1709A — Teleconsultation
- § 1709B — Evaluations of mental health care and suicide prevention programs
- § 1709C — Assistance for child care for certain veterans receiving health care
- § 1710 — Eligibility for hospital, nursing home, and domiciliary care
- § 1710A — Required nursing home care
- § 1710B — Extended care services
- § 1710C — Traumatic brain injury: plans for rehabilitation and reintegration into the community
- § 1710D — Traumatic brain injury: comprehensive program for long-term rehabilitation
- § 1710E — Traumatic brain injury: use of non-Department facilities for rehabilitation
- § 1711 — Care during examinations and in emergencies
- § 1712 — Dental care; drugs and medicines for certain disabled veterans; vaccines
- § 1712A — Eligibility for readjustment counseling and related mental health services
- § 1712B — Counseling for former prisoners of war
- § 1712C — Dental insurance plan for veterans and survivors and dependents of veterans
- § 1713 — Renumbered § 1781]
- § 1714 — Fitting and training in use of prosthetic appliances; guide dogs; service dogs
- § 1715 — Tobacco for hospitalized veterans
- § 1716 — Hospital care by other agencies of the United States
- § 1717 — Home health services; invalid lifts and other devices
- § 1718 — Therapeutic and rehabilitative activities
- § 1719 — Repair or replacement of certain prosthetic and other appliances
- § 1720 — Transfers for nursing home care; adult day health care
- § 1720A — Treatment and rehabilitative services for persons with drug or alcohol dependency
- § 1720B — Respite care
- § 1720C — Noninstitutional alternatives to nursing home care
- § 1720D — Counseling and treatment for sexual trauma
- § 1720E — Nasopharyngeal radium irradiation
- § 1720F — Comprehensive program for suicide prevention among veterans and members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces
- § 1720G — Assistance and support services for caregivers
- § 1720H — Mental health treatment for veterans and members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces who served in classified missions
- § 1720I — Mental and behavioral health care for certain former members of the Armed Forces
- § 1720J — Emergent suicide care
- § 1720K — Grants or contracts to provide mental health support to family caregivers of veterans
- § 1720L — Home- and community-based services: programs
- § 1721 — Power to make rules and regulations
- § 1722 — Determination of inability to defray necessary expenses; income thresholds
- § 1722A — Copayment for medications
- § 1722B — Copayments: waiver of collection of copayments for telehealth and telemedicine visits of veterans
- § 1722C — Copayments: prohibition on collection of copayments for first three mental health care outpatient visits of veterans
- § 1723 — Furnishing of clothing
- § 1724 — Hospital care, medical services, and nursing home care abroad
- § 1725 — Reimbursement for emergency treatment
- § 1725A — Access to walk-in care
- § 1726 — Reimbursement for loss of personal effects by natural disaster
- § 1727 — Persons eligible under prior law
- § 1728 — Reimbursement of certain medical expenses
- § 1729 — Recovery by the United States of the cost of certain care and services
- § 1729A — Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Care Collections Fund
- § 1729B — Consolidated patient accounting centers
- § 1730 — Community residential care
- § 1730A — Prohibition on collection of copayments from certain veterans
- § 1730B — Access to State prescription drug monitoring programs
- § 1730C — Licensure of health care professionals providing treatment via telemedicine
- § 1731 — Assistance to the Republic of the Philippines
- § 1732 — Contracts and grants to provide for the care and treatment of United States veterans by the Veterans Memorial Medical Center
- § 1733 — Supervision of program by the President
- § 1734 — Hospital and nursing home care and medical services in the United States
- § 1735 — Definitions
- § 1741 — Criteria for payment
- § 1742 — Inspections of such homes; restrictions on beneficiaries
- § 1743 — Applications
- § 1744 — Hiring and retention of nurses: payments to assist States
- § 1745 — Nursing home care, adult day health care, and medications for veterans with service-connected disabilities
- § 1751 — Screening, counseling, and medical treatment
- § 1752 — Research
- § 1753 — Voluntary participation; confidentiality
- § 1754 — Reports
- § 1761 — Repealed. Pub. L. 102–585, title V, § 514(a), Nov. 4, 1992, 106 Stat. 4958]
- § 1771 — Renumbered §§ 2031 to 2034]
- § 1781 — Medical care for survivors and dependents of certain veterans
- § 1782 — Counseling, training, and mental health services for immediate family members and caregivers
- § 1783 — Bereavement counseling
- § 1784 — Humanitarian care
- § 1784A — Examination and treatment for emergency medical conditions and women in labor
- § 1785 — Care and services during certain disasters and emergencies
- § 1786 — Care for newborn children of women veterans receiving maternity care
- § 1787 — Health care of family members of veterans stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina
- § 1788 — Transplant procedures with live donors and related services
- § 1789 — Mental health services for members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces
- § 1801 — Repealed. Pub. L. 106–419, title IV, § 401(c)(1), Nov. 1, 2000, 114 Stat. 1860]
- § 1802 — Spina bifida conditions covered
- § 1803 — Health care
- § 1804 — Vocational training and rehabilitation
- § 1805 — Monetary allowance
- § 1806 — Repealed. Pub. L. 106–419, title IV, § 401(c)(3), Nov. 1, 2000, 114 Stat. 1860]
- § 1811 — Definitions
- § 1812 — Covered birth defects
- § 1813 — Health care
- § 1814 — Vocational training
- § 1815 — Monetary allowance
- § 1816 — Regulations
- § 1821 — Benefits for children of certain Korea service veterans born with spina bifida
- § 1822 — Benefits for children of certain Thailand service veterans born with spina bifida
- § 1831 — Definitions
- § 1832 — Applicability of certain administrative provisions
- § 1833 — Treatment of receipt of monetary allowance and other benefits
- § 1834 — Nonduplication of benefits
- § 1835 — Advisory council
- § 1836 — Care and coordination teams
- § 1837 — Duration of health care and benefits provided
- § 1838 — Biennial report
- § 1901 — Definitions
- § 1902 — Premium rates and policy values
- § 1903 — Amount of insurance
- § 1904 — Plans of insurance
- § 1905 — Renewal
- § 1906 — Policy provisions
- § 1907 — Payment or use of dividends
- § 1908 — Premium payments
- § 1909 — Effective date of insurance
- § 1910 — Incontestability
- § 1911 — Forfeiture
- § 1912 — Total disability waiver
- § 1913 — Death before six months’ total disability
- § 1914 — Statutory total disabilities
- § 1915 — Total disability income provision
- § 1916 — Insurance which matured before August 1, 1946
- § 1917 — Insurance maturing on or after August 1, 1946
- § 1918 — Assignments
- § 1919 — National Service Life Insurance appropriation
- § 1920 — National Service Life Insurance Fund
- § 1921 — Extra hazard costs
- § 1922 — Legacy service disabled veterans’ insurance
- § 1922A — Legacy supplemental service disabled veterans’ insurance for totally disabled veterans
- § 1922B — Service-disabled veterans insurance
- § 1923 — Veterans’ Special Life Insurance
- § 1924 — In-service waiver of premiums
- § 1925 — Limited period for acquiring insurance
- § 1926 — Authority for higher interest rates for amounts payable to beneficiaries
- § 1927 — Authority for higher monthly installments payable to certain annuitants
- § 1928 — Authority for payment of interest on settlements
- § 1929 — Authority to adjust premium discount rates
- § 1940 — Definition
- § 1941 — Amount of insurance
- § 1942 — Plans of insurance
- § 1943 — Premiums
- § 1944 — Policy provisions
- § 1945 — Renewal
- § 1946 — Dividends to pay premiums
- § 1947 — Incontestability
- § 1948 — Total disability provision
- § 1949 — Beneficiaries
- § 1950 — Payment to estates
- § 1951 — Payment of insurance
- § 1952 — Optional settlement
- § 1953 — Assignments
- § 1954 — Forfeiture
- § 1955 — United States Government Life Insurance Fund
- § 1956 — Military and naval insurance appropriation
- § 1957 — Extra hazard costs
- § 1958 — Statutory total permanent disability
- § 1959 — Waiver of disability for reinstatement
- § 1960 — Waiver of premium payments on due date
- § 1961 — Authority for higher interest rates for amounts payable to beneficiaries
- § 1962 — Authority for higher monthly installments payable to certain annuitants
- § 1963 — Authority for payment of interest on settlements
- § 1965 — Definitions
- § 1966 — Eligible insurance companies
- § 1967 — Persons insured; amount
- § 1968 — Duration and termination of coverage; conversion
- § 1969 — Deductions; payment; investment; expenses
- § 1970 — Beneficiaries; payment of insurance
- § 1971 — Basic tables of premiums; readjustment of rates
- § 1972 — Benefit certificates
- § 1973 — Forfeiture
- § 1974 — Advisory Council on Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance
- § 1975 — Jurisdiction of District Courts
- § 1976 — Effective date
- § 1977 — Veterans’ Group Life Insurance
- § 1978 — Reinstatement
- § 1979 — Incontestability
- § 1980 — Option to receive accelerated death benefit
- § 1980A — Traumatic injury protection
- § 1980B — Periodic review of automatic maximum coverage
- § 1981 — Replacement of surrendered and expired insurance
- § 1982 — Administrative cost
- § 1983 — Settlements for minors or incompetents
- § 1984 — Suits on insurance
- § 1985 — Decisions by the Secretary
- § 1986 — Deposits in and disbursements from trust funds
- § 1987 — Penalties
- § 1988 — Savings provision
- § 2001 — Purpose
- § 2002 — Definitions
- § 2003 — Staffing requirements
- § 2011 — Grants
- § 2012 — Per diem payments
- § 2013 — Program to improve retention of housing by formerly homeless veterans and veterans at risk of becoming homeless
- § 2014 — Training and technical assistance for recipients of certain financial assistance
- § 2015 — Training and technical assistance for entities regarding services provided to veterans at risk of, experiencing, or transitioning out of homelessness
- § 2016 — Authorization of appropriations
- § 2021 — Homeless veterans reintegration programs
- § 2021A — Homeless women veterans and homeless veterans with children reintegration grant program
- § 2022 — Coordination of outreach services for veterans at risk of homelessness
- § 2022A — Legal services for homeless veterans and veterans at risk for homelessness
- § 2023 — Referral and counseling services: veterans at risk of homelessness who are transitioning from certain institutions
- § 2031 — General treatment
- § 2032 — Therapeutic housing
- § 2033 — Additional services at certain locations
- § 2034 — Coordination with other agencies and organizations
- § 2041 — Housing assistance for homeless veterans
- § 2042 — Supported housing for veterans participating in compensated work therapies
- § 2043 — Domiciliary care programs
- § 2044 — Financial assistance for supportive services for very low-income veteran families in permanent housing
- § 2051 — General authority
- § 2052 — Requirements
- § 2053 — Default
- § 2054 — Audit
- § 2061 — Grant program for homeless veterans with special needs
- § 2062 — Dental care
- § 2063 — Employment assistance
- § 2064 — Technical assistance grants for nonprofit community-based groups
- § 2065 — Annual report on assistance to homeless veterans
- § 2066 — Advisory Committee on Homeless Veterans
- § 2067 — National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans
- § 2068 — Mental health consultations
- § 2069 — Access to telehealth services
- § 2101 — Acquisition and adaptation of housing: eligible veterans
- § 2101A — Eligibility for benefits and assistance: members of the Armed Forces with service-connected disabilities; individuals residing outside the United States
- § 2102 — Limitations on assistance furnished
- § 2102A — Assistance for individuals residing temporarily in housing owned by a family member
- § 2102B — Adaptations to residences of veterans in rehabilitation programs
- § 2103 — Furnishing of plans and specifications
- § 2104 — Benefits additional to benefits under other laws
- § 2105 — Nonliability of United States
- § 2106 — Veterans’ mortgage life insurance
- § 2107 — Coordination of administration of benefits
- § 2108 — Specially adapted housing assistive technology grant program
- § 2109 — Specially adapted housing destroyed or damaged by natural disasters
- § 2301 — Flags
- § 2302 — Repealed. Pub. L. 116–315, title II, § 2202(a)(2), Jan. 5, 2021, 134 Stat. 4984]
- § 2303 — Death from non-service-connected disability; plot allowance
- § 2304 — Claims for reimbursement
- § 2305 — Persons eligible under prior law
- § 2306 — Headstones, markers, and burial receptacles
- § 2307 — Death from service-connected disability
- § 2308 — Transportation of deceased veteran to a national cemetery or a covered veterans’ cemetery
- § 2400 — Establishment of National Cemetery Administration; composition of Administration
- § 2401 — Advisory Committee on Cemeteries and Memorials
- § 2402 — Persons eligible for interment in national cemeteries
- § 2403 — Memorial areas
- § 2404 — Administration
- § 2405 — Disposition of inactive cemeteries
- § 2406 — Acquisition of lands
- § 2407 — Authority to accept and maintain suitable memorials
- § 2408 — Aid to States, counties, and tribal organizations for establishment, expansion, and improvement of veterans’ cemeteries
- § 2409 — Memorial areas in Arlington National Cemetery
- § 2410 — Burial of cremated remains in Arlington National Cemetery
- § 2410A — Arlington National Cemetery: other administrative matters
- § 2411 — Prohibition against interment or memorialization in the National Cemetery Administration or Arlington National Cemetery of persons committing certain Federal or State crimes
- § 2412 — Lease of land and buildings
- § 2413 — Prohibition on certain demonstrations and disruptions at cemeteries under control of the National Cemetery Administration and at Arlington National Cemetery
- § 2414 — Communication between Department of Veterans Affairs and medical examiners and funeral directors
- § 3001 — Purposes
- § 3002 — Definitions
- § 3011 — Basic educational assistance entitlement for service on active duty
- § 3012 — Basic educational assistance entitlement for service in the Selected Reserve
- § 3013 — Duration of basic educational assistance
- § 3014 — Payment of basic educational assistance
- § 3014A — Accelerated payment of basic educational assistance for education leading to employment in high technology occupation in high technology industry
- § 3015 — Amount of basic educational assistance
- § 3016 — Inservice enrollment in a program of education
- § 3017 — Death benefit
- § 3018 — Opportunity for certain active-duty personnel to withdraw election not to enroll
- § 3018A — Opportunity for certain active-duty personnel to enroll before being involuntarily separated from service
- § 3018B — Opportunity for certain persons to enroll
- § 3018C — Opportunity for certain VEAP participants to enroll
- § 3019 — Tutorial assistance
- § 3020 — Authority to transfer unused education benefits to family members for career service members
- § 3021 — Supplemental educational assistance for additional service
- § 3022 — Amount of supplemental educational assistance
- § 3023 — Payment of supplemental educational assistance under this subchapter
- § 3031 — Time limitation for use of eligibility and entitlement
- § 3032 — Limitations on educational assistance for certain individuals
- § 3033 — Bar to duplication of educational assistance benefits
- § 3034 — Program administration
- § 3035 — Allocation of administration and of program costs
- § 3036 — Repealed. Pub. L. 112–154, title IV, § 402(b)(1), Aug. 6, 2012, 126 Stat. 1189]
- § 3100 — Purposes
- § 3101 — Definitions
- § 3102 — Basic entitlement
- § 3103 — Periods of eligibility
- § 3104 — Scope of services and assistance
- § 3105 — Duration of rehabilitation programs
- § 3106 — Initial and extended evaluations; determinations regarding serious employment handicap
- § 3107 — Individualized vocational rehabilitation plan
- § 3108 — Allowances
- § 3109 — Entitlement to independent living services and assistance
- § 3110 — Leaves of absence
- § 3111 — Regulations to promote satisfactory conduct and cooperation
- § 3112 — Revolving fund loans
- § 3113 — Vocational rehabilitation for hospitalized members of the Armed Forces and veterans
- § 3114 — Vocational rehabilitation outside the United States
- § 3115 — Rehabilitation resources
- § 3116 — Promotion of employment and training opportunities
- § 3117 — Employment assistance
- § 3118 — Personnel training, development, and qualifications
- § 3119 — Rehabilitation research and special projects
- § 3120 — Program of independent living services and assistance
- § 3121 — Veterans’ Advisory Committee on Rehabilitation
- § 3122 — Longitudinal study of vocational rehabilitation programs
- § 3201 — Purpose
- § 3202 — Definitions
- § 3221 — Eligibility
- § 3222 — Contributions; matching fund
- § 3223 — Refunds of contributions upon disenrollment
- § 3224 — Death of participant
- § 3225 — Discharge or release under conditions which would bar the use of benefits
- § 3231 — Entitlement; loan eligibility
- § 3232 — Duration; limitations
- § 3233 — Apprenticeship or other on-job training
- § 3234 — Tutorial assistance
- § 3241 — Requirements
- § 3242 — Vacant]
- § 3243 — Deposits; reports
- § 3301 — Definitions
- § 3311 — Educational assistance for service in the Armed Forces commencing on or after September 11, 2001: entitlement
- § 3312 — Educational assistance: duration
- § 3313 — Educational assistance: amount; payment
- § 3314 — Tutorial assistance
- § 3315 — Licensure and certification tests
- § 3315A — National tests
- § 3315B — Preparatory courses for licensure, certification, or national tests
- § 3316 — Supplemental educational assistance: members with critical skills or specialty; members serving additional service
- § 3317 — Public-private contributions for additional educational assistance
- § 3318 — Additional assistance: relocation or travel assistance for individual relocating or traveling significant distance for pursuit of a program of education
- § 3319 — Authority to transfer unused education benefits to family members
- § 3320 — Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship
- § 3321 — Time limitation for use of and eligibility for entitlement
- § 3322 — Bar to duplication of educational assistance benefits
- § 3323 — Administration
- § 3324 — Allocation of administration and costs
- § 3325 — Reporting requirement
- § 3326 — Report on student progress
- § 3327 — Election to receive educational assistance
- § 3451 — Purpose
- § 3452 — Definitions
- § 3461 — Eligibility; entitlement; duration
- § 3462 — Time limitations for completing a program of education
- § 3463 — Vacant]
- § 3470 — Selection of program
- § 3471 — Applications; approval
- § 3472 — Vacant]
- § 3473 — Repealed. Pub. L. 102–568, title III, § 313(a)(3)(A), Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4332]
- § 3474 — Discontinuance for unsatisfactory conduct or progress
- § 3475 — Vacant]
- § 3476 — Education outside the United States
- § 3477, — Vacant]
- § 3481 — Educational assistance allowance
- § 3482 — Computation of educational assistance allowances
- § 3482A — Vacant]
- § 3483 — Approval of courses
- § 3484 — Apprenticeship or other on-job training; correspondence courses
- § 3485 — Work-study allowance
- § 3486, — Vacant]
- § 3490 — Purpose
- § 3491 — Elementary and secondary education and preparatory educational assistance
- § 3492 — Tutorial assistance
- § 3493 — Effect on educational entitlement
- § 3495 — Vacant]
- § 3500 — Purpose
- § 3501 — Definitions
- § 3510 — Eligibility and entitlement generally
- § 3511 — Duration of educational assistance
- § 3512 — Periods of eligibility
- § 3513 — Application
- § 3514 — Processing of applications
- § 3520 — Educational and vocational counseling
- § 3521 — Approval of application
- § 3522 — Vacant]
- § 3523 — Disapproval of enrollment in certain courses
- § 3524 — Discontinuance for unsatisfactory progress
- § 3525, — Vacant]
- § 3531 — Educational assistance allowance
- § 3532 — Computation of educational assistance allowance
- § 3533 — Special assistance for the educationally disadvantaged
- § 3534 — Apprenticeship or other on-job training; correspondence courses
- § 3535 — Approval of courses
- § 3536 — Specialized vocational training courses
- § 3537 — Work-study allowance
- § 3538 — Vacant]
- § 3540 — Purpose
- § 3541 — Entitlement to special restorative training
- § 3542 — Special training allowance
- § 3543 — Special administrative provisions
- § 3561 — Authority and duties of Secretary
- § 3562 — Nonduplication of benefits
- § 3563 — Notification of eligibility
- § 3564 — Annual adjustment of amounts of educational assistance
- § 3565 — Children of certain Philippine veterans
- § 3566 — Definitions
- § 3601 — Definition of emergency situation
- § 3602 — Continuation of educational assistance benefits during emergency situations
- § 3603 — Continuation of educational assistance benefits for certain programs of education converted to distance learning by reason of emergency situations
- § 3604 — Effects of closure of educational institution and modification of courses by reason of emergency situation
- § 3605 — Payment of educational assistance in cases of withdrawal
- § 3670 — Scope of approval
- § 3671 — Designation
- § 3672 — Approval of courses
- § 3672A — Uniform application
- § 3673 — Approval activities: cooperation and coordination of activities
- § 3673A — Risk-based surveys
- § 3674 — Reimbursement of expenses
- § 3674A — Evaluations of agency performance; qualifications and performance of agency personnel
- § 3675 — Approval of accredited courses
- § 3676 — Approval of nonaccredited courses
- § 3677 — Approval of training on the job
- § 3678 — Notice of approval of courses
- § 3679 — Disapproval of courses
- § 3680 — Payment of educational assistance or subsistence allowances
- § 3680A — Disapproval of enrollment in certain courses
- § 3681 — Limitations on educational assistance
- § 3682 — Control by agencies of the United States
- § 3683 — Conflicting interests
- § 3684 — Reports by veterans, eligible persons, and institutions; reporting fee
- § 3684A — Procedures relating to computer matching program
- § 3685 — Overpayments to eligible persons or veterans
- § 3686 — Correspondence courses
- § 3687 — Apprenticeship or other on-job training
- § 3688 — Measurement of courses
- § 3689 — Approval requirements for licensing and certification testing
- § 3690 — Overcharges by educational institutions; discontinuance of allowances; examination of records; false or misleading statements
- § 3691 — Change of program
- § 3691A — Withdrawal or leave of absence from certain education
- § 3692 — Advisory committee
- § 3693 — Compliance surveys
- § 3694 — Use of other Federal agencies
- § 3695 — Limitation on period of assistance under two or more programs
- § 3696 — Prohibition on certain advertising, sales, and enrollment practices
- § 3697 — Funding of contract educational and vocational counseling
- § 3697A — Educational and vocational counseling
- § 3697B — On-campus educational and vocational counseling
- § 3698 — Comprehensive policy on providing education information to veterans
- § 3698A — Provision of certificates of eligibility and award letters using electronic means
- § 3699 — Effects of closure or disapproval of educational institution
- § 3699A — Provision of certain information to educational institutions
- § 3699B — Treatment of certain for-profit educational institutions
- § 3699C — High technology program
- § 3699D — Notice of changes to policies and guidance relating to educational assistance programs
- § 3701 — Definitions
- § 3702 — Basic entitlement
- § 3703 — Basic provisions relating to loan guaranty and insurance
- § 3704 — Restrictions on loans
- § 3705 — Warranties
- § 3706 — Escrow of deposits and downpayments
- § 3707 — Adjustable rate mortgages
- § 3707A — Hybrid adjustable rate mortgages
- § 3708 — Authority to buy down interest rates: pilot program
- § 3709 — Refinancing of housing loans
- § 3710 — Purchase or construction of homes
- § 3711 — Direct loans to veterans
- § 3712 — Loans to purchase manufactured homes and lots
- § 3713 — Release from liability under guaranty
- § 3714 — Assumptions; release from liability
- § 3715 — Vacant]
- § 3720 — Powers of Secretary
- § 3721 — Incontestability
- § 3722 — Veterans Housing Benefit Program Fund
- § 3723 — Repealed. Pub. L. 105–368, title VI, § 602(a)(1), Nov. 11, 1998, 112 Stat. 3345]
- § 3726 — Withholding of payments, benefits, etc.
- § 3727 — Expenditures to correct or compensate for structural defects in mortgaged homes
- § 3728 — Exemption from State anti-usury provisions
- § 3729 — Loan fee
- § 3730 — Use of attorneys in court
- § 3731 — Appraisals
- § 3732 — Procedure on default
- § 3733 — Property management
- § 3734 — Annual submission of information on the Veterans Housing Benefit Program Fund and housing programs
- § 3735 — Renumbered § 2041]
- § 3736 — Reporting requirements
- § 3737 — Partial Claim Program
- § 3741 — Definitions
- § 3742 — Small business loan program
- § 3743 — Liability on loans
- § 3744 — Approval of loans by the Secretary
- § 3745 — Interest on loans
- § 3746 — Maturity of loans
- § 3747 — Eligible financial institutions
- § 3748 — Preference for disabled veterans
- § 3749 — Revolving fund
- § 3750 — Incorporation of other provisions by the Secretary
- § 3751 — Termination of program
- § 3761 — Direct housing loans to Native American veterans; program authority
- § 3762 — Direct housing loans to Native American veterans; program administration
- § 3762A — Native community development financial institution relending program
- § 3763 — Native American Veteran Housing Loan Program Account
- § 3764 — Qualified non-Native American veterans
- § 3765 — Definitions
- § 3771 — Repealed. Pub. L. 107–95, § 5(d)(3), Dec. 21, 2001, 115 Stat. 918]
- § 3772 — Renumbered §§ 2051 to 2054]
- § 3901 — Definitions
- § 3902 — Assistance for providing automobile and adaptive equipment
- § 3903 — Limitations on assistance; special training courses
- § 3904 — Research and development
- § 4100 — Findings
- § 4101 — Definitions
- § 4102 — Purpose
- § 4102A — Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans’ Employment and Training; program functions; Regional Administrators
- § 4103 — Directors and Assistant Directors for Veterans’ Employment and Training; additional Federal personnel
- § 4103A — Disabled veterans’ outreach program
- § 4104 — Local veterans’ employment representatives
- § 4104A — Collaborative veterans’ training, mentoring, and placement program
- § 4105 — Cooperation of Federal agencies
- § 4106 — Estimate of funds for administration; authorization of appropriations
- § 4107 — Administrative controls; annual report
- § 4108 — Cooperation and coordination
- § 4109 — National Veterans’ Employment and Training Services Institute
- § 4110 — Advisory Committee on Veterans Employment, Training, and Employer Outreach
- § 4110A — Special unemployment study
- § 4110B — Coordination and nonduplication
- § 4111 — Repealed. Pub. L. 107–95, § 5(e)(3), Dec. 21, 2001, 115 Stat. 918]
- § 4112 — Performance incentive awards for quality employment, training, and placement services
- § 4113 — Transition Assistance Program personnel
- § 4114 — Credentialing and licensure of veterans: demonstration project
- § 4115 — Longitudinal study of job counseling, training, and placement service for veterans
- § 4211 — Definitions
- § 4212 — Veterans’ employment emphasis under Federal contracts
- § 4213 — Eligibility requirements for veterans under Federal employment and training programs
- § 4214 — Employment within the Federal Government
- § 4215 — Priority of service for veterans in Department of Labor job training programs
- § 4301 — Purposes; sense of Congress
- § 4302 — Relation to other law and plans or agreements
- § 4303 — Definitions
- § 4304 — Character of service
- § 4311 — Discrimination against persons who serve in the uniformed services and acts of reprisal prohibited
- § 4312 — Reemployment rights of persons who serve in the uniformed services
- § 4313 — Reemployment positions
- § 4314 — Reemployment by the Federal Government
- § 4315 — Reemployment by certain Federal agencies
- § 4316 — Rights, benefits, and obligations of persons absent from employment for service in a uniformed service
- § 4317 — Health plans
- § 4318 — Employee pension benefit plans
- § 4319 — Employment and reemployment rights in foreign countries
- § 4321 — Assistance in obtaining reemployment or other employment rights or benefits
- § 4322 — Enforcement of employment or reemployment rights
- § 4323 — Enforcement of rights with respect to a State or private employer
- § 4324 — Enforcement of rights with respect to Federal executive agencies
- § 4325 — Enforcement of rights with respect to certain Federal agencies
- § 4326 — Conduct of investigation; subpoenas
- § 4327 — Noncompliance of Federal officials with deadlines; inapplicability of statutes of limitations
- § 4331 — Regulations
- § 4332 — Reports
- § 4333 — Outreach
- § 4334 — Notice of rights and duties
- § 4335 — Training for Federal executive agency human resources personnel on employment and reemployment rights and limitations
- § 5100 — Definitions
- § 5101 — Claims and forms
- § 5102 — Application forms furnished upon request; notice to claimants of incomplete applications
- § 5103 — Notice to claimants of required information and evidence
- § 5103A — Duty to assist claimants
- § 5104 — Decisions and notices of decisions
- § 5104A — Binding nature of favorable findings
- § 5104B — Higher-level review by the agency of original jurisdiction
- § 5104C — Options following decision by agency of original jurisdiction
- § 5105 — Joint applications for social security and dependency and indemnity compensation
- § 5106 — Furnishing of information by other agencies
- § 5107 — Claimant responsibility; benefit of the doubt
- § 5108 — Supplemental claims
- § 5109 — Independent medical opinions
- § 5109A — Revision of decisions on grounds of clear and unmistakable error
- § 5109B — Expedited treatment of returned and remanded claims
- § 5110 — Effective dates of awards
- § 5111 — Commencement of period of payment
- § 5112 — Effective dates of reductions and discontinuances
- § 5113 — Effective dates of educational benefits
- § 5120 — Payment of benefits; delivery
- § 5121 — Payment of certain accrued benefits upon death of a beneficiary
- § 5121A — Substitution in case of death of claimant
- § 5122 — Cancellation of checks mailed to deceased payees
- § 5123 — Rounding down of pension rates
- § 5124 — Acceptance of claimant’s statement as proof of relationship
- § 5125 — Acceptance of reports of private physician examinations
- § 5126 — Benefits not to be denied based on lack of mailing address
- § 5301 — Nonassignability and exempt status of benefits
- § 5302 — Waiver of recovery of claims by the United States
- § 5302A — Collection of indebtedness: certain debts of members of the Armed Forces and veterans who die of injury incurred or aggravated in the line of duty in a combat zone
- § 5302B — Prohibition of debt arising from overpayment due to delay in processing
- § 5303 — Certain bars to benefits
- § 5303A — Minimum active-duty service requirement
- § 5303B — Character of service determinations
- § 5304 — Prohibition against duplication of benefits
- § 5305 — Waiver of retired pay
- § 5306 — Renouncement of right to benefits
- § 5307 — Apportionment of benefits
- § 5308 — Withholding benefits of persons in territory of the enemy
- § 5309 — Payment of certain withheld benefits
- § 5310 — Payment of benefits for month of death
- § 5311 — Prohibition of certain benefit payments
- § 5312 — Annual adjustment of certain benefit rates
- § 5313 — Limitation on payment of compensation and dependency and indemnity compensation to persons incarcerated for conviction of a felony
- § 5313A — Limitation on payment of clothing allowance to incarcerated veterans
- § 5313B — Prohibition on providing certain benefits with respect to persons who are fugitive felons
- § 5314 — Indebtedness offsets
- § 5314A — Dispute of indebtedness
- § 5315 — Interest and administrative cost charges on delinquent payments of certain amounts due the United States
- § 5316 — Authority to sue to collect certain debts
- § 5317 — Use of income information from other agencies: notice and verification
- § 5317A — Use of income information from other agencies: independent verification required before termination or reduction of certain benefits and services
- § 5318 — Review of Social Security Administration death information
- § 5319 — Limitations on access to financial records
- § 5320 — Threshold for reporting debts to consumer reporting agencies
- § 5321 — Benefits helpline
- § 5501 — Commitment actions
- § 5501A — Beneficiaries’ rights in mental competence determinations
- § 5502 — Payments to and supervision of fiduciaries
- § 5503 — Hospitalized veterans and estates of incompetent institutionalized veterans
- § 5504 — Administration of trust funds
- § 5505 — Repealed. Pub. L. 103–446, title XII, § 1201(g)(4)(A), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4687]
- § 5506 — Definition of “fiduciary”
- § 5507 — Inquiry, investigations, and qualification of fiduciaries
- § 5508 — Periodic onsite reviews of institutional fiduciaries
- § 5509 — Authority to require fiduciary to receive payments at regional offices of the Department when failing to provide required accounting
- § 5510 — Annual report
- § 5701 — Confidential nature of claims
- § 5702 — Furnishing of records
- § 5703 — Certification of records of District of Columbia
- § 5704 — Transcript of trial records
- § 5705 — Confidentiality of medical quality-assurance records
- § 5706 — Veterans identification card
- § 5711 — Authority to issue subpoenas
- § 5712 — Validity of affidavits
- § 5713 — Disobedience to subpoena
- § 5721 — Purpose
- § 5722 — Policy
- § 5723 — Responsibilities
- § 5724 — Provision of credit protection and other services
- § 5725 — Contracts for data processing or maintenance
- § 5726 — Reports and notice to Congress on data breaches
- § 5727 — Definitions
- § 5728 — Authorization of appropriations
- § 5901 — Prohibition against acting as claims agent or attorney
- § 5902 — Recognition of representatives of organizations
- § 5903 — Recognition with respect to particular claims
- § 5904 — Recognition of agents and attorneys generally
- § 5905 — Penalty for certain acts
- § 5906 — Availability of legal assistance at Department facilities
- § 6101 — Misappropriation by fiduciaries
- § 6102 — Fraudulent acceptance of payments
- § 6103 — Forfeiture for fraud
- § 6104 — Forfeiture for treason
- § 6105 — Forfeiture for subversive activities
- § 6106 — Misuse of benefits by fiduciaries
- § 6107 — Reissuance of benefits
- § 6108 — Authority for judicial orders of restitution
- § 6301 — Purpose; definitions
- § 6302 — Biennial plan
- § 6303 — Outreach services
- § 6304 — Veterans assistance offices
- § 6305 — Outstationing of counseling and outreach personnel
- § 6306 — Use of other agencies
- § 6307 — Grants to States and Indian Tribes to improve outreach to veterans
- § 6308 — Outreach for eligible dependents
- § 6309 — Biennial report to Congress
- § 6320 — Solid Start program
- § 7101 — Composition of Board of Veterans’ Appeals
- § 7101A — Members of Board: appointment; pay; performance review
- § 7102 — Assignment of members of Board
- § 7103 — Reconsideration; correction of obvious errors
- § 7104 — Jurisdiction of the Board; decisions; notice
- § 7105 — Filing of appeal
- § 7105A — Simultaneously contested claims
- § 7106 — Repealed. Pub. L. 115–55, § 2(s)(1), Aug. 23, 2017, 131 Stat. 1112]
- § 7107 — Appeals: dockets; hearings
- § 7108 — Rejection of applications
- § 7109 — Repealed. Pub. L. 115–55, § 2(u)(1), Aug. 23, 2017, 131 Stat. 1113]
- § 7110 — Repealed. Pub. L. 103–271, § 7(b)(2), July 1, 1994, 108 Stat. 743]
- § 7111 — Revision of decisions on grounds of clear and unmistakable error
- § 7112 — Expedited treatment of certain claims
- § 7113 — Evidentiary record before the Board of Veterans’ Appeals
- § 7114 — Internship program
- § 7251 — Status
- § 7252 — Jurisdiction; finality of decisions
- § 7253 — Composition
- § 7254 — Organization
- § 7255 — Offices, duty stations, and residences
- § 7256 — Times and places of sessions
- § 7257 — Recall of retired judges
- § 7261 — Scope of review
- § 7262 — Fee for filing appeals
- § 7263 — Representation of parties; fee agreements
- § 7264 — Rules of practice and procedure
- § 7265 — Contempt authority; assistance to the Court
- § 7266 — Notice of appeal
- § 7267 — Decisions
- § 7268 — Availability of proceedings
- § 7269 — Publication of decisions
- § 7281 — Employees
- § 7282 — Budget and expenditures
- § 7283 — Disposition of fees
- § 7284 — Fee for transcript of record
- § 7285 — Practice and registration fees
- § 7286 — Judicial Conference of the Court
- § 7287 — Administration
- § 7288 — Annual report
- § 7291 — Date when Court decision becomes final
- § 7292 — Review by United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- § 7296 — Retirement of judges
- § 7297 — Survivor annuities
- § 7298 — Retirement Fund
- § 7299 — Limitation on activities of retired judges
- § 7301 — Functions of Veterans Health Administration: in general
- § 7302 — Functions of Veterans Health Administration: health-care personnel education and training programs
- § 7303 — Functions of Veterans Health Administration: research programs
- § 7304 — Regulations
- § 7305 — Divisions of Veterans Health Administration
- § 7306 — Office of the Under Secretary for Health
- § 7307 — Office of Research Oversight
- § 7308 — Office of Rural Health
- § 7309 — Readjustment Counseling Service
- § 7309A — Office of Patient Advocacy
- § 7310 — Office of Women’s Health
- § 7310A — Annual reports on Women’s Health
- § 7311 — Quality assurance
- § 7311A — Quality management officers
- § 7312 — Special medical advisory group
- § 7313 — Advisory committees: affiliated institutions
- § 7314 — Geriatric research, education, and clinical centers
- § 7315 — Geriatrics and Gerontology Advisory Committee
- § 7316 — Malpractice and negligence suits: defense by United States
- § 7317 — Hazardous research projects: indemnification of contractors
- § 7318 — National Center for Preventive Health
- § 7319 — Mammography quality standards
- § 7320 — Centers for mental illness research, education, and clinical activities
- § 7321 — Committee on Care of Severely Chronically Mentally Ill Veterans
- § 7321A — Committee on Care of Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury
- § 7322 — Breast cancer mammography policy
- § 7323 — Required consultations with nurses
- § 7324 — Annual report on use of authorities to enhance retention of experienced nurses
- § 7325 — Medical emergency preparedness centers
- § 7326 — Education and training programs on medical response to consequences of terrorist activities
- § 7327 — Centers for research, education, and clinical activities on complex multi-trauma associated with combat injuries
- § 7328 — Medical preparedness centers
- § 7329 — Parkinson’s Disease research, education, and clinical centers
- § 7330 — Multiple sclerosis centers of excellence
- § 7330A — Epilepsy centers of excellence
- § 7330B — Annual report on Veterans Health Administration and furnishing of hospital care, medical services, and nursing home care
- § 7330C — Quadrennial Veterans Health Administration review
- § 7330D — Inapplicability of Paperwork Reduction Act to research activities
- § 7331 — Informed consent
- § 7332 — Confidentiality of certain medical records
- § 7333 — Nondiscrimination against alcohol and drug abusers and persons infected with the human immunodeficiency virus
- § 7334 — Regulations
- § 7361 — Authority to establish; status
- § 7362 — Purpose of corporations
- § 7363 — Board of directors; executive director
- § 7364 — General powers
- § 7364A — Renumbered § 7365]
- § 7365 — Coverage of employees under certain Federal tort claims laws
- § 7366 — Accountability and oversight
- § 7367 — Repealed. Pub. L. 107–14, § 8(a)(14)(A), June 5, 2001, 115 Stat. 35]
- § 7368 — Repealed. Pub. L. 110–387, title VIII, § 806(a), Oct. 10, 2008, 122 Stat. 4141]
- § 7381 — Office of Research and Development
- § 7382 — Research personnel
- § 7401 — Appointments in Veterans Health Administration
- § 7402 — Qualifications of appointees
- § 7403 — Period of appointments; promotions
- § 7404 — Grades and pay scales
- § 7404A — Awards
- § 7405 — Temporary full-time appointments, part-time appointments, and without-compensation appointments
- § 7406 — Residencies and internships
- § 7407 — Administrative provisions for section 7405 and 7406 appointments
- § 7408 — Appointment of additional employees
- § 7409 — Contracts for scarce medical specialist services
- § 7410 — Additional pay authorities
- § 7411 — Full-time board-certified physicians and dentists: reimbursement of continuing professional education expenses
- § 7412 — Annual determination of staffing shortages; recruitment and appointment for needed occupations
- § 7413 — Treatment of podiatrists; clinical oversight standards
- § 7414 — Compliance with requirements for examining qualifications and clinical abilities of health care professionals
- § 7421 — Personnel administration: in general
- § 7422 — Collective bargaining
- § 7423 — Personnel administration: full-time employees
- § 7424 — Travel expenses of certain employees
- § 7425 — Employees: laws not applicable
- § 7426 — Retirement rights
- § 7431 — Pay
- § 7432 — Pay of Under Secretary for Health
- § 7433 — Administrative matters
- § 7451 — Nurses and other health-care personnel: competitive pay
- § 7452 — Nurses and other health-care personnel: administration of pay
- § 7453 — Nurses: additional pay
- § 7454 — Physician assistants and other health care professionals: additional pay
- § 7455 — Increases in rates of basic pay
- § 7456 — Nurses: special rules for weekend duty
- § 7456A — Nurses: alternate work schedules
- § 7457 — On-call pay
- § 7458 — Recruitment and retention bonus pay
- § 7459 — Nursing staff: special rules for overtime duty
- § 7461 — Adverse actions: section 7401(1) employees
- § 7462 — Major adverse actions involving professional conduct or competence
- § 7463 — Other adverse actions
- § 7464 — Disciplinary Appeals Boards
- § 7471 — Designation of Regional Medical Education Centers
- § 7472 — Supervision and staffing of Centers
- § 7473 — Personnel eligible for training
- § 7474 — Consultation
- § 7501 — Establishment of scholarship program; purpose
- § 7502 — Application and acceptance
- § 7503 — Amount of assistance; duration
- § 7504 — Agreement
- § 7505 — Repayment for failure to satisfy requirements of agreement
- § 7601 — Establishment of program; purpose
- § 7602 — Eligibility
- § 7603 — Application and acceptance
- § 7604 — Terms of agreement
- § 7611 — Authority for program
- § 7612 — Eligibility; application; agreement
- § 7613 — Scholarship
- § 7614 — Part-time students
- § 7615 — Status of participants
- § 7616 — Obligated service
- § 7617 — Breach of agreement: liability
- § 7618 — Additional program requirements
- § 7619 — Expiration of program
- § 7621 — Authority for program
- § 7622 — Eligibility; application; agreement
- § 7623 — Obligated service
- § 7624 — Breach of agreement: liability
- § 7625 — Allocation and distribution of funding
- § 7631 — Periodic adjustments in amount of assistance
- § 7632 — Annual report
- § 7633 — Regulations
- § 7634 — Breach of agreement; waiver of liability
- § 7635 — Service in other agencies
- § 7636 — Exemption of educational assistance payments from taxation
- § 7651 — Authority for program
- § 7652 — Eligibility: individuals entitled to benefits under the GI Bill program for members of the Selected Reserve
- § 7653 — Amount of assistance
- § 7654 — Obligated service
- § 7655 — Breach of agreement; liability
- § 7671 — Authority for program
- § 7672 — Eligibility; agreement
- § 7673 — Scholarship
- § 7674 — Obligated service
- § 7675 — Breach of agreement: liability
- § 7676 — Repealed. Pub. L. 107–135, title I, § 101(a)(1), Jan. 23, 2002, 115 Stat. 2447]
- § 7681 — Authority for program
- § 7682 — Eligibility
- § 7683 — Education debt reduction
- § 7684 — Repealed. Pub. L. 107–135, title I, § 102(a)(1), Jan. 23, 2002, 115 Stat. 2448]
- § 7691 — Establishment
- § 7692 — Purpose
- § 7693 — Eligibility; preferences; covered costs
- § 7694 — Specialty education loan repayment
- § 7695 — Choice of location
- § 7696 — Term of obligated service
- § 7697 — Relationship to Educational Assistance Program
- § 7698 — Requirement for program
- § 7699 — Eligibility; agreement
- § 7699A — Obligated service
- § 7699B — Breach of agreement: liability
- § 7701 — Organization of the Administration
- § 7703 — Functions of the Administration
- § 7731 — Establishment
- § 7732 — Functions
- § 7732A — Employee certification
- § 7733 — Personnel
- § 7734 — Annual report to Congress
- § 7801 — Purpose of Veterans’ Canteen Service
- § 7802 — Duties of Secretary with respect to Service
- § 7803 — Operation of Service
- § 7804 — Financing of Service
- § 7805 — Revolving fund
- § 7806 — Budget of Service
- § 7807 — Audit of accounts
- § 7808 — Service to be independent unit
- § 7809 — Child-care centers
- § 7810 — Exemption from personnel ceilings
- § 7901 — Programs; purpose
- § 7902 — Scholarship program
- § 7903 — Education debt reduction program
- § 7904 — Preferences in awarding financial assistance
- § 7905 — Requirement of honorable discharge for veterans receiving assistance
- § 7906 — Regulations
- § 7907 — Termination
- § 8101 — Definitions
- § 8102 — Acquisition of medical facilities
- § 8103 — Authority to construct and alter, and to acquire sites for, medical facilities
- § 8104 — Congressional approval of certain medical facility acquisitions
- § 8105 — Structural requirements
- § 8106 — Construction contracts
- § 8107 — Repealed. Pub. L. 111–163, title V, § 501(b)(1), May 5, 2010, 124 Stat. 1157]
- § 8108 — Contributions to local authorities
- § 8109 — Parking facilities
- § 8110 — Operation of medical facilities
- § 8111 — Sharing of Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense health care resources
- § 8111A — Furnishing of health-care services to members of the Armed Forces during a war or national emergency
- § 8111B — Shared medical facilities with Department of Defense
- § 8112 — Partial relinquishment of legislative jurisdiction
- § 8113 — Property formerly owned by National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
- § 8114 — Use of federally owned facilities; use of personnel
- § 8115 — Acceptance of certain property
- § 8116 — Nursing home revolving fund
- § 8117 — Emergency preparedness
- § 8118 — Authority for transfer of real property; Department of Veterans Affairs Capital Asset Fund
- § 8119 — Annual report on outpatient clinics
- § 8120 — Quarterly report on super construction projects
- § 8121 — Revolving supply fund
- § 8122 — Authority to procure and dispose of property and to negotiate for common services
- § 8123 — Procurement of prosthetic appliances
- § 8124 — Grant of easements in Government-owned lands
- § 8125 — Procurement of health-care items
- § 8126 — Limitation on prices of drugs procured by Department and certain other Federal agencies
- § 8127 — Small business concerns owned and controlled by veterans: contracting goals and preferences
- § 8128 — Small business concerns owned and controlled by veterans: contracting priority
- § 8129 — Preference for offerors employing veterans
- § 8131 — Definitions
- § 8132 — Declaration of purpose
- § 8133 — Authorization of appropriations
- § 8134 — General regulations
- § 8135 — Applications with respect to projects; payments
- § 8136 — Recapture provisions
- § 8137 — State control of operations
- § 8138 — Treatment of certain health facilities as State homes
- § 8151 — Statement of congressional purpose
- § 8152 — Definitions
- § 8153 — Sharing of health-care resources
- § 8154 — Exchange of medical information
- § 8155 — Pilot programs; grants to medical schools
- § 8156 — Coordination with health services development activities carried out under the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act of 1974
- § 8157 — Joint title to medical equipment
- § 8158 — Deposit in escrow
- § 8159 — Authority to pay for services authorized but not subject to an agreement
- § 8161 — Definitions
- § 8162 — Enhanced-use leases
- § 8163 — Hearing and notice requirements regarding proposed leases
- § 8164 — Authority for disposition of leased property
- § 8165 — Use of proceeds
- § 8166 — Construction standards
- § 8167 — Exemption from State and local taxes
- § 8168 — Annual reports
- § 8169 — Repealed. Pub. L. 117–168, title VII, § 705(d), Aug. 10, 2022, 136 Stat. 1800]
- § 8171 — Definitions
- § 8172 — Management of major information technology projects
- § 8173 — Information technology activities of the Financial Services Center
- § 8174 — Submission of annual reviews of information technology
- § 8175 — Information technology matters to be included in budget justification materials for the Department
- § 8201 — Coordination with public health programs; administration
- § 8211 — Declaration of purpose
- § 8212 — Authorization of appropriations
- § 8213 — Pilot program assistance
- § 8214 — Limitations
- § 8221 — Declaration of purpose
- § 8222 — Authorization of appropriations
- § 8223 — Grants
- § 8231 — Declaration of purpose
- § 8232 — Definition
- § 8233 — Grants
- § 8241 — Expenditures to remodel and make special allocations to Department hospitals for health manpower education and training
- § 8301 — Authority to accept gifts, devises, and bequests
- § 8302 — Legal proceedings
- § 8303 — Restricted gifts
- § 8304 — Disposition of property
- § 8305 — Savings provision
- § 8501 — Vesting of property left by decedents
- § 8502 — Disposition of unclaimed personal property
- § 8503 — Notice of provisions of this subchapter
- § 8504 — Disposition of other unclaimed property
- § 8505 — Sale or other disposition of property
- § 8506 — Notice of sale
- § 8507 — Payment of small shipping charges
- § 8508 — Relinquishment of Federal jurisdiction
- § 8509 — Definitions
- § 8510 — Finality of decisions
- § 8520 — Vesting of property left by decedents
- § 8521 — Presumption of contract for disposition of personalty
- § 8522 — Sale of assets accruing to the Fund
- § 8523 — Disbursements from the Fund
- § 8524 — Disposal of remaining assets
- § 8525 — Court actions
- § 8526 — Filing of claims for assets
- § 8527 — Notice of provisions of subchapter
- § 8528 — Investment of the Fund