---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 4331"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "4331"
heading: "Regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/4331"
units:
  - "Part III — Readjustment and Related Benefits"
  - "Chapter 43 — Employment and Reemployment Rights of Members of the Uniformed Services"
  - "Subchapter IV — Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §4331. Regulations

- (a) The [Secretary](/usc/38/4101.md?p=8) (in consultation with the [Secretary of Defense](/usc/38/3002.md?p=5)) may prescribe regulations implementing the provisions of this chapter with regard to the application of this chapter to [States](/usc/38/4101.md?p=6), local governments, and private [employers](/usc/38/4303.md?p=4-A).
- (b)
  - (1) The Director of the Office of Personnel Management (in consultation with the [Secretary](/usc/38/4101.md?p=8) and the [Secretary of Defense](/usc/38/3002.md?p=5)) may prescribe regulations implementing the provisions of this chapter with regard to the application of this chapter to [Federal executive agencies](/usc/38/4303.md?p=5) (other than the agencies referred to in [paragraph (2)](#b-2)) as [employers](/usc/38/4303.md?p=4-A). Such regulations shall be consistent with the regulations pertaining to the [States](/usc/38/4101.md?p=6) as [employers](/usc/38/4303.md?p=4-A) and private [employers](/usc/38/4303.md?p=4-A), except that [employees](/usc/38/4303.md?p=3) of the [Federal Government](/usc/38/4303.md?p=6) may be given greater or additional rights.
  - (2) The following entities may prescribe regulations to carry out the activities of such entities under this chapter:
    - (A) The Merit Systems Protection Board.
    - (B) The Office of Special Counsel.
    - (C) The agencies referred to in [section 2302(a)(2)(C)(ii) of title 5](/usc/5/2302.md?p=a-2-C-ii).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 103–353, § 2(a), Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3168; amended Pub. L. 109–233, title V, § 503(14), June 15, 2006, 120 Stat. 417.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 4331 was renumbered section 7631 of this title.

### Amendments

2006—Subsec. (b)(2)(C). Pub. L. 109–233 substituted “section 2302(a)(2)(C)(ii)” for “section 2303(a)(2)(C)(ii)”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective with respect to reemployments initiated on or after the first day after the 60-day period beginning Oct. 13, 1994, with transition rules, see section 8 of Pub. L. 103–353, set out as a note under section 4301 of this title.