---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 1742"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "1742"
heading: "Inspections of such homes; restrictions on beneficiaries"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/1742"
units:
  - "Part II — General Benefits"
  - "Chapter 17 — Hospital, Nursing Home, Domiciliary, and Medical Care"
  - "Subchapter V — Payments to State Homes"
---

# §1742. Inspections of such homes; restrictions on beneficiaries

- (a) The [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) may inspect any [State home](/usc/38/101.md?p=19) at such times as the [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) deems necessary. No payment or grant may be made to any home under this subchapter unless such home is determined by the [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) to meet such standards as the [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) shall prescribe, which standards with respect to [nursing home care](/usc/38/101.md?p=28) shall be no less stringent than those prescribed pursuant to [section 1720(b) of this title](/usc/38/1720.md?p=b).
- (b) The [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) may ascertain the number of persons on account of whom payments may be made under this subchapter on account of any [State home](/usc/38/101.md?p=19), but shall have no authority over the management or control of any [State home](/usc/38/101.md?p=19).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 85–857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1146, § 642; Pub. L. 94–581, title I, § 107(a), title II, § 210(a)(16), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2847, 2863; renumbered § 1742 and amended Pub. L. 102–83, §§ 4(b)(1), (2)(E), 5(a), (c)(1), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 404–406.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Prior section 1742 was renumbered section 3542 of this title.

### Amendments

1991—Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), renumbered section 642 of this title as this section.

Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(c)(1), substituted “1720(b)” for “620(b)”.

Pub. L. 102–83, § 4(b)(1), (2)(E), substituted “Secretary” for “Administrator” wherever appearing.

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 102–83, § 4(b)(1), (2)(E), substituted “Secretary” for “Administrator”.

1976—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 94–581 substituted “as the Administrator deems necessary” for “as he deems necessary” in existing provisions and inserted provision that no payment or grant may be made to any home under this subchapter unless such home is determined by the Administrator to meet such standards as the Administrator shall prescribe, which standards with respect to nursing home care shall be no less stringent than those prescribed pursuant to section 620(b) of this title.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1976 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 94–581 effective Oct. 21, 1976, see section 211 of Pub. L. 94–581, set out as a note under section 111 of this title.