38 U.S.C. § 3119 — Rehabilitation research and special projects
submitted 46 years ago by Pub. L. 96-466 to r/title-38-VETERANS-BENEFITS · 185 words · no verdicts yet
The Secretary must conduct and support research and projects to improve rehabilitation programs for veterans. The Secretary may fund public or nonprofit agencies and must cooperate with specified officials on shared rehabilitation work.
(a) The Secretary* must maintain an ongoing program to advance knowledge, methods, techniques, and resources for veterans’ rehabilitation programs. The Secretary must conduct or support: (1) studies and research on psychological, educational, employment, social, vocational, industrial, and economic aspects of disabled-veteran* rehabilitation, including new methods; and (2) projects designed to increase resources and the ability to rehabilitate disabled veterans. (b) For that purpose, the Secretary may make grants to or contract with public or nonprofit agencies, including higher-education institutions. (c) The Secretary must cooperate with the Education Department* officials responsible for rehabilitation services and handicapped research, Labor’s Assistant Secretary for Veterans’ Employment, and the Health and Human Services Secretary on rehabilitation studies, research, and special projects of shared program concern.
The Secretary* shall carry out an ongoing program of activities for the purpose of advancing the knowledge, methods, techniques, and resources available for use in rehabilitation programs for veterans. For this purpose, the Secretary shall conduct and provide support for the development or conduct, or both the development and conduct, of—
studies and research concerning the psychological, educational, employment, social, vocational, industrial, and economic aspects of the rehabilitation of disabled veterans, including new methods of rehabilitation; and
projects which are designed to increase the resources and potential for accomplishing the rehabilitation of disabled veterans.
For the purpose specified in subsection (a) of this section, the Secretary is authorized to make grants to or contract with public or nonprofit agencies, including institutions of higher learning.
The Secretary shall cooperate with the Commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration and the Director of the Institute of Handicapped Research in the Department* of Education, the Assistant Secretary for Veterans’ Employment in the Department of Labor, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services regarding rehabilitation studies, research, and special projects of mutual programmatic concern.
Source credit: (Added Pub. L. 96–466, title I, § 101(a), Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2184, § 1519; amended Pub. L. 101–237, title IV, § 423(b)(1)(A), Dec. 18, 1989, 103 Stat. 2092; renumbered § 3119, Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 406.)
- 1980Enacted · Pub. L. 96-466 · 94 Stat. 2184
- 1989Amended · Pub. L. 101-237 · 103 Stat. 2092
- 1991Amended · Pub. L. 102-83 · 105 Stat. 406
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