---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 8212"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "8212"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/8212"
units:
  - "Part VI — Acquisition and Disposition of Property"
  - "Chapter 82 — Assistance in Establishing New State Medical Schools; Grants to Affiliated Medical Schools; Assistance to Health Manpower Training Institutions"
  - "Subchapter I — Pilot Program for Assistance in the Establishment of New State Medical Schools"
---

# §8212. Authorization of appropriations

- (a) There is authorized to be appropriated $25,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973, and a like sum for each of the six succeeding fiscal years. Sums appropriated pursuant to this section shall be used for making grants pursuant to [section 8213 of this title](/usc/38/8213.md).
- (b) Sums appropriated pursuant to [subsection (a)](#a) of this section shall remain available until the end of the sixth fiscal year following the fiscal year for which they are appropriated.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 92–541, § 2(a), Oct. 24, 1972, 86 Stat. 1102, § 5072; renumbered § 8212 and amended Pub. L. 102–40, title IV, § 402(b)(2)(B), (d)(1), May 7, 1991, 105 Stat. 239.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1991—Pub. L. 102–40, § 402(b)(2)(B), renumbered section 5072 of this title as this section.

Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102–40, § 402(d)(1), substituted “8213” for “5073”.