---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 8231"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "8231"
heading: "Declaration of purpose"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/8231"
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 III — Assistance to Public and Nonprofit Institutions of Higher Learning, Hospitals and Other Health Manpower Institutions Affiliated with the Department to Increase the Production of Professional and Other Health Personnel"
---

# §8231. Declaration of purpose


The purpose of this subchapter is to authorize the [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) to carry out a program of grants to provide assistance in the establishment of cooperative arrangements among universities, colleges, junior colleges, community colleges, schools of allied health professions, [State](/usc/38/101.md?p=20) and local systems of education, hospitals, and other nonprofit health manpower institutions affiliated with the [Department](/usc/38/101.md?p=1), designed to coordinate, improve, and expand the training of professional and technical allied health and paramedical personnel, and to assist in developing and evaluating new health careers, interdisciplinary approaches and career advancement opportunities, so as to improve and expand allied and other health manpower utilization.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 92–541, § 2(a), Oct. 24, 1972, 86 Stat. 1105, § 5091; renumbered § 8231, Pub. L. 102–40, title IV, § 402(b)(2)(D), May 7, 1991, 105 Stat. 239; amended Pub. L. 102–83, § 4(a)(3), (4), (b)(1), (2)(E), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 404, 405.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1991—Pub. L. 102–40 renumbered section 5091 of this title as this section.

Pub. L. 102–83 substituted “Secretary” for “Administrator” and “Department” for “Veterans’ Administration”.