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Title 38 — Veterans' BenefitsRelease 119-73

§8231 Declaration of purpose

Title 38 › Part PART VI— - ACQUISITION AND DISPOSITION OF PROPERTY › Chapter CHAPTER 82— - ASSISTANCE IN ESTABLISHING NEW STATE MEDICAL SCHOOLS; GRANTS TO AFFILIATED MEDICAL SCHOOLS; ASSISTANCE TO HEALTH MANPOWER TRAINING INSTITUTIONS › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - ASSISTANCE TO PUBLIC AND NONPROFIT INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING, HOSPITALS AND OTHER HEALTH MANPOWER INSTITUTIONS AFFILIATED WITH THE DEPARTMENT TO INCREASE THE PRODUCTION OF PROFESSIONAL AND OTHER HEALTH PERSONNEL › § 8231

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Allows the Secretary to run a grant program that helps colleges, hospitals, and other nonprofit health training groups form partnerships. Grants pay for coordinating, strengthening, and growing training for allied health and paramedical workers, and for creating and testing new health careers, team-based training, and ways for workers to advance so the health workforce is used better and can expand.

Full Legal Text

Title 38, §8231

Veterans' Benefits — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

The purpose of this subchapter is to authorize the Secretary to carry out a program of grants to provide assistance in the establishment of cooperative arrangements among universities, colleges, junior colleges, community colleges, schools of allied health professions, State and local systems of education, hospitals, and other nonprofit health manpower institutions affiliated with the Department, designed to coordinate, improve, and expand the training of professional and technical allied health and paramedical personnel, and to assist in developing and evaluating new health careers, interdisciplinary approaches and career advancement opportunities, so as to improve and expand allied and other health manpower utilization.

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1991—Pub. L. 102–40 renumbered section 5091 of this title as this section. Pub. L. 102–83 substituted “Secretary” for “Administrator” and “Department” for “Veterans’ Administration”.

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Citation

38 U.S.C. § 8231

Title 38 — Veterans' Benefits

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73