38 U.S.C. § 3118 — Personnel training, development, and qualifications
submitted 46 years ago by Pub. L. 96-466 to r/title-38-VETERANS-BENEFITS · 223 words · no verdicts yet
The Secretary must provide ongoing professional training for VA counseling and rehabilitation personnel. The Secretary must coordinate certain training and set qualifications needed to maintain rehabilitation quality.
(a) The Secretary* must provide ongoing professional training and development for VA counseling and rehabilitation personnel who provide services under this chapter. The goal is to ensure services for disabled veterans use the most advanced available knowledge, methods, and techniques for rehabilitating handicapped people. The Secretary may hire consultants and make grants to or contracts with public or private agencies, including higher-education institutions, for that training and development. (b) The Secretary must coordinate with the Education Department’s Rehabilitation Services Administration Commissioner and Labor’s Assistant Secretary for Veterans’ Employment when planning and conducting training on shared program concerns. (c) Despite other law, the Secretary must set qualifications for people evaluating or rehabilitating veterans under this chapter and employees performing section 3106(f) functions when necessary and appropriate for program quality. The Secretary must consider qualifications for comparable personnel under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
The Secretary* shall provide a program of ongoing professional training and development for Department* of Veterans Affairs counseling and rehabilitation personnel engaged in providing rehabilitation services under this chapter. The objective of such training shall be to insure that rehabilitation services for disabled veterans are provided in accordance with the most advanced knowledge, methods, and techniques available for the rehabilitation of handicapped persons. For this purpose, the Secretary may employ the services of consultants and may make grants to and contract with public or private agencies (including institutions of higher learning) to conduct such training and development.
The Secretary shall coordinate with the Commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration in the Department of Education and the Assistant Secretary for Veterans’ Employment in the Department of Labor in planning and carrying out personnel training in areas of mutual programmatic concern.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary shall establish such qualifications for personnel providing evaluation and rehabilitation services to veterans under this chapter and for employees performing the functions described in section 3106(f) of this title as the Secretary determines are necessary and appropriate to insure the quality of rehabilitation programs under this chapter. In establishing such qualifications, the Secretary shall take into account the qualifications established for comparable personnel under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. ch. 16).
Source credit: (Added Pub. L. 96–466, title I, § 101(a), Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2184, § 1518; amended Pub. L. 101–237, title IV, § 423(b)(1), Dec. 18, 1989, 103 Stat. 2092; renumbered § 3118 and amended Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), (c)(1), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 406; Pub. L. 104–275, title I, § 101(f)(2)(C), Oct. 9, 1996, 110 Stat. 3325.)
- 1980Enacted · Pub. L. 96-466 · 94 Stat. 2184
- 1989Amended · Pub. L. 101-237 · 103 Stat. 2092
- 1991Amended · Pub. L. 102-83 · 105 Stat. 406
- 1996Amended · Pub. L. 104-275 · 110 Stat. 3325
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 96-466 on 1980-10-17.
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