Federal
Title 38 — Veterans’ Benefits
1,197 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.
- § 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- § 7676 — Repealed.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
- § 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