---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 3111"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "3111"
heading: "Regulations to promote satisfactory conduct and cooperation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/3111"
units:
  - "Part III — Readjustment and Related Benefits"
  - "Chapter 31 — Training and Rehabilitation for Veterans with Service-Connected Disabilities"
---

# §3111. Regulations to promote satisfactory conduct and cooperation


The [Secretary](/usc/38/4101.md?p=8) shall prescribe such rules and regulations as the [Secretary](/usc/38/4101.md?p=8) determines necessary to promote satisfactory conduct and cooperation on the part of [veterans](/usc/38/3701.md?p=b-2) who are pursuing [rehabilitation programs](/usc/38/3101.md?p=7) under this chapter. In any case in which the [Secretary](/usc/38/4101.md?p=8) determines that a [veteran](/usc/38/3701.md?p=b-2) has failed to maintain satisfactory conduct or cooperation, the [Secretary](/usc/38/4101.md?p=8) may, after determining that all reasonable counseling efforts have been made and are not reasonably likely to be effective, discontinue services and assistance unless the [Secretary](/usc/38/4101.md?p=8) determines that mitigating circumstances exist. In any case in which such services and assistance have been discontinued, the [Secretary](/usc/38/4101.md?p=8) may reinstitute such services and assistance only if the [Secretary](/usc/38/4101.md?p=8) determines that—

- (1) the cause of the unsatisfactory conduct or cooperation of such [veteran](/usc/38/3701.md?p=b-2) has been removed; and
- (2) the [rehabilitation program](/usc/38/3101.md?p=7) which such [veteran](/usc/38/3701.md?p=b-2) proposes to pursue (whether the same or revised) is suitable to such [veteran](/usc/38/3701.md?p=b-2)’s abilities, aptitudes, and interests.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 96–466, title I, § 101(a), Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2181, § 1511; amended Pub. L. 101–237, title IV, § 423(b)(1)(A), Dec. 18, 1989, 103 Stat. 2092; renumbered § 3111, Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 406.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Prior section 3111 was renumbered section 5311 of this title.

### Amendments

1991—Pub. L. 102–83 renumbered section 1511 of this title as this section.

1989—Pub. L. 101–237 substituted “Secretary” for “Administrator” wherever appearing.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Apr. 1, 1981, see section 802(a)(1) of Pub. L. 96–466, set out as a note under section 3100 of this title.