---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 712"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "712"
heading: "Repealed. Pub. L. 107–103, title V, § 509(a)(1), Dec. 27, 2001, 115 Stat. 997"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/712"
units:
  - "Part I — General Provisions"
  - "Chapter 7 — Employees"
  - "Subchapter I — General Employee Matters"
---

# [§712. Repealed. Pub. L. 107–103, title V, § 509(a)(1), Dec. 27, 2001, 115 Stat. 997 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, added Pub. L. 103–446, title XI, § 1102(a), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4680; amended Pub. L. 104–262, title III, § 303, Oct. 9, 1996, 110 Stat. 3194; Pub. L. 105–33, title VIII, § 8023(e), Aug. 5, 1997, 111 Stat. 667; Pub. L. 105–368, title X, § 1005(b)(1), Nov. 11, 1998, 112 Stat. 3364, limited reduction of full-time equivalent positions in the Department of Veterans Affairs during the period beginning on Nov. 2, 1994, and ending on Sept. 30, 1999.

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 712 was renumbered section 1912 of this title.