Title 38, Veterans' BenefitsRelease 119-102

§530 Annual Report on Program and Expenditures for Domestic Response to Weapons of Mass Destruction

Title 38 › PART I — GENERAL PROVISIONS › CHAPTER 5 — AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY › SUBCHAPTER II — SPECIFIED FUNCTIONS › § 530

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must send the Senate and House Committees on Veterans’ Affairs a yearly report about the Department’s work preparing for and taking part in a medical response inside the United States to an attack using weapons of mass destruction. The report is due each year when the President sends the budget for the next fiscal year. Each report must say how much money and how many full-time equivalent employees (FTEs) the Department expects to use next year, where those funds will come from, and any expected shortfalls. It must give a detailed account of money spent and FTEs used in the prior fiscal year, and a detailed account of money spent and expected to be spent and FTEs used and expected for the current fiscal year, including sources and how the money was used. This requirement ends on January 1, 2009.

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Title 38, §530

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(a)The Secretary shall submit to the Committees on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate and House of Representatives an annual report, to be submitted each year at the time that the President submits the budget for the next fiscal year under section 1105 of title 31, on the activities of the Department relating to preparation for, and participation in, a domestic medical response to an attack involving weapons of mass destruction.

(b)Each report under subsection (a) shall include the following:

(1)A statement of the amounts of funds and the level of personnel resources (stated in terms of full-time equivalent employees) expected to be used by the Department during the next fiscal year in preparation for a domestic medical response to an attack involving weapons of mass destruction, including the anticipated source of those funds and any anticipated shortfalls in funds or personnel resources to achieve the tasks assigned the Department by the President in connection with preparation for such a response.

(2)A detailed statement of the funds expended and personnel resources (stated in terms of full-time equivalent employees) used during the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year during which the report is submitted in preparation for a domestic medical response to an attack involving weapons of mass destruction or in response to such an attack, including identification of the source of those funds and a description of how those funds were expended.

(3)A detailed statement of the funds expended and expected to be expended, and the personnel resources (stated in terms of full-time equivalent employees) used and expected to be used, during the fiscal year during which the report is submitted in preparation for a domestic medical response to an attack involving weapons of mass destruction or in response to such an attack, including identification of the source of funds expended and a description of how those funds were expended.

(c)This section shall expire on January 1, 2009.

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Citation

38 U.S.C. § 530

Title 38, Veterans' Benefits

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102