---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 7304"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "7304"
heading: "Regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/7304"
units:
  - "Part V — Boards, Administrations, and Services"
  - "Chapter 73 — Veterans Health Administration—organization and Functions"
  - "Subchapter I — Organization"
---

# §7304. Regulations

- (a) Unless specifically otherwise provided, the Under [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) for Health shall prescribe all regulations necessary to the administration of the [Veterans](/usc/38/101.md?p=2) Health Administration, including regulations relating to—
  - (1) travel, transportation of household goods and effects, and deductions from pay for quarters and subsistence; and
  - (2) the custody, use, and preservation of the records, papers, and property of the Administration.
- (b) Regulations prescribed by the Under [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) for Health are subject to the approval of the [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 102–40, title IV, § 401(a)(3), May 7, 1991, 105 Stat. 212; amended Pub. L. 102–405, title III, § 302(c)(1), Oct. 9, 1992, 106 Stat. 1984.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1992—Pub. L. 102–405 substituted “Under Secretary for Health” for “Chief Medical Director” in subsecs. (a) and (b).