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38 U.S.C. § 704 — Waiver of pay limitation for certain employees
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**(a) Employees of Veterans Health Administration Impacted by Closure or Realignment.—** Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary may waive any annual premium or aggregate limitation on pay for an employee of the Veterans Health Administration for the calendar year during which—
(1) the official duty station of the employee is closed; or
(2) the office, facility, activity, or organization of the employee is realigned.
**(b) Employees Providing Care to Veterans Exposed to Open Burn Pits.—**
(1) **In general.—** — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary may waive any annual premium or aggregate limitation on pay for an employee of the Department whose primary duties include providing expanded care for veterans exposed to open burn pits.
(2) **Open burn pit defined.—** — In this subsection, the term “open burn pit” has the meaning given that term in section 201(c) of the Dignified Burial and Other Veterans’ Benefits Improvement Act of 2012 (Public Law 112–260; [38 U.S.C. 527](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title38-section527&num=0&edition=prelim) note).
**(c) Coordination With Office of Personnel Management.—** In implementing this section, the Secretary shall coordinate with the Director of the Office of Personnel Management.
**(d) Reports.—**
(1) **In general.—** — For each quarter that the Secretary waives a limitation under this section, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate, the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the House of Representatives, and the Office of Personnel Management a report on the waiver or waivers.
(2) **Contents.—** — Each report submitted under paragraph (1) with respect to a waiver or waivers shall include the following:
(A) Where th
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**(a) Employees of Veterans Health Administration Impacted by Closure or Realignment.—** Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary may waive any annual premium or aggregate limitation on pay for an employee of the Veterans Health Administration for the calendar year during which—
(1) the official duty station of the employee is closed; or
(2) the office, facility, activity, or organization of the employee is realigned.
**(b) Employees Providing Care to Veterans Exposed to Open Burn Pits.—**
(1) **In general.—** — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary may waive any annual premium or aggregate limitation on pay for an employee of the Department whose primary duties include providing expanded care for veterans exposed to open burn pits.
(2) **Open burn pit defined.—** — In this subsection, the term “open burn pit” has the meaning given that term in section 201(c) of the Dignified Burial and Other Veterans’ Benefits Improvement Act of 2012 (Public Law 112–260; [38 U.S.C. 527](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title38-section527&num=0&edition=prelim) note).
**(c) Coordination With Office of Personnel Management.—** In implementing this section, the Secretary shall coordinate with the Director of the Office of Personnel Management.
**(d) Reports.—**
(1) **In general.—** — For each quarter that the Secretary waives a limitation under this section, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate, the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the House of Representatives, and the Office of Personnel Management a report on the waiver or waivers.
(2) **Contents.—** — Each report submitted under paragraph (1) with respect to a waiver or waivers shall include the following:
(A) Where the waiver or waivers were used, including in which component of the Department and, as the case may be, which medical center of the Department.
(B) For how many employees the waiver or waivers were used, disaggregated by component of the Department and, if applicable, medical center of the Department.
(C) The average amount by which each payment exceeded the pay limitation that was waived, disaggregated by component of the Department and, if applicable, medical center of the Department.
**(e) Employee Defined.—** In this section, the term “employee” means any employee regardless of the authority under which the employee was hired.
**(f) Termination.—** This section shall terminate on September 30, 2027.
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**(a)** Insurance may be issued on the following plans: Five-year level premium term, ordinary life, twenty-payment life, thirty-payment life, twenty-year endowment, endowment at age sixty, and endowment at age sixty-five. Level premium term insurance may be converted as of the date when any premium becomes or has become due, or exchanged as of the date of the original policy, upon payment of the difference in reserve, at any time while such insurance is in force and within the term period to any of the foregoing permanent plans of insurance, except that conversion to an endowment plan may not be made while the insured is totally disabled.
**(b)** Under such regulations as the Secretary may promulgate a policy of participating insurance may be converted to or exchanged for insurance issued under this subsection on a modified life plan. Insurance issued under this subsection shall be on the same terms and conditions as the insurance which it replaces, except (1) the premium rates for such insurance shall be based on the 1958 Commissioners Standard Ordinary Basic Table of Mortality and interest at the rate of 3 per centum per annum; (2) all cash, loan, paid-up, and extended values shall be based on the 1958 Commissioners Standard Ordinary Basic Table of Mortality and interest at the rate of 3 per centum per annum; and (3) at the end of the day preceding the sixty-fifth birthday of the insured the face value of the modified life insurance policy or the amount of extended term insurance thereunder shall be automatically reduced by one-half thereof, without any reduction in premium.
**(c)** Under such regulations as the Secretary may promulgate, a policy of nonparticipating insurance may be converted to or exchanged for insurance issued under this subsection on a modified
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**(a)** The Secretary, pursuant to general standards which the Secretary shall prescribe in regulations, shall measure and evaluate on a continuing basis the effect of all programs authorized under this title, in order to determine their effectiveness in achieving stated goals in general, and in achieving such goals in relation to their cost, their effect on related programs, and their structure and mechanisms for delivery of services. Such information as the Secretary may consider necessary for purposes of such evaluations shall be made available to the Secretary, upon request, by all departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the executive branch.
**(b)** In carrying out this section, the Secretary shall collect, collate, and analyze on a continuing basis full statistical data regarding participation (including the duration thereof), provision of services, categories of beneficiaries, planning and construction of facilities, acquisition of real property, proposed excessing of land, accretion and attrition of personnel, and categorized expenditures attributable thereto, under all programs carried out under this title.
**(c)** The Secretary shall make available to the public, and on a regular basis provide to the appropriate committees of the Congress, copies of all completed evaluative research studies and summaries of evaluations of program impact and effectiveness carried out, and tabulations and analyses of all data collected, under this section.
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TITLE 38—VETERANS’ BENEFITS
§ 525
‘‘(B) An assessment of the benefits to veterans of
the pilot program.
‘‘(C) The recommendations of the Secretary as to
the advisability of continuing the pilot program.’’
§ 525. Publication of laws relating to veterans
(a) The Secretary may compile and publish all
Federal laws relating to veterans’ relief, includ-
ing laws administered by the Department as
well as by other agencies of the Government.
Such compilation and publication shall be in
such form as the Secretary considers advisable
for the purpose of making currently available in
convenient form for the use of the Department
and full-time representatives of the several serv-
ice organizations an annotated, indexed, and
cross-referenced statement of the laws providing
veterans’ relief.
(b) The Secretary may maintain such compila-
tion on a current basis either by the publication,
from time to time, of supplementary documents
or by complete revision of the compilation.
(c) The distribution of the compilation to the
representatives of the several service organiza-
tions shall be as determined by the Secretary.
(Added Pub. L. 102–83, § 2(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105
Stat. 391.)
Editorial Notes
PRIOR PROVISIONS
Prior section 525 was renumbered section 1525 of this
title.
Provisions similar to those in this section were con-
tained in section 215 of this title prior to repeal by Pub.
L. 102–83, § 2(a).
§ 527. Evaluation and data collection
(a) The Secretary, pursuant to general stand-
ards which the Secretary shall prescribe in regu-
lations, shall measure and evaluate on a con-
tinuing basis the effect of all programs author-
ized under this title, in order to determine their
effectiveness in achieving stated goals in gen-
eral, and in achieving such goa
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TITLE 38—VETERANS’ BENEFITS
§ 704
‘‘(II) Proper planning procedures for vacation,
leave, and graduate medical education training
schedules.
‘‘(ii) Training on the appropriate number of ap-
pointments that a health care provider should
conduct on a daily basis, based on specialty.
‘‘(iii) Training on how to determine whether
there are enough available appointment slots to
manage demand for different appointment types
and mechanisms for alerting management of in-
sufficient slots.
‘‘(iv) Training on how to properly use the ap-
pointment scheduling system of the Department,
including any new scheduling system imple-
mented by the Department.
‘‘(v) Training on how to optimize the use of
technology, including the following:
‘‘(I) Telemedicine.
‘‘(II) Electronic mail.
‘‘(III) Text messaging.
‘‘(IV) Such other technologies as specified by
the Secretary.
‘‘(vi) Training on how to properly use physical
plant space at medical facilities of the Depart-
ment to ensure efficient flow and privacy for pa-
tients and staff.
‘‘(B) ROLE-SPECIFIC.—The Secretary shall ensure
that each employee of the Department included in
the clinic management training program required
by paragraph (1) receives education under such pro-
gram that is relevant to the responsibilities of such
employee.
‘‘(3) SUNSET.—The clinic management training pro-
gram required by paragraph (1) shall terminate on
the date that is 2 years after the date on which the
Secretary commences such program.
‘‘(b) TRAINING MATERIALS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—After the termination of the clin-
ic management training program required by sub-
section (a), the Secretary shall provide training ma-
terials on health care management to each of the fol-
lowing employees of the Department that are rel-
evant
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