Title 38, Veterans' BenefitsRelease 119-102

§8231 Declaration of Purpose

Title 38 › PART VI — ACQUISITION AND DISPOSITION OF PROPERTY › CHAPTER 82 — ASSISTANCE IN ESTABLISHING NEW STATE MEDICAL SCHOOLS; GRANTS TO AFFILIATED MEDICAL SCHOOLS; ASSISTANCE TO HEALTH MANPOWER TRAINING INSTITUTIONS › 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 Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Allows the Secretary to run a grant program that helps colleges, hospitals, and nonprofit health training institutions form partnerships. Grants fund expanding and improving training for allied and paramedical workers and creating and testing new careers and team-based approaches.

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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38 U.S.C. § 8231

Title 38, Veterans' Benefits

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102