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38 U.S.C. § 1744 — Hiring and retention of nurses: payments to assist States

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38 U.S.C. § 1744 — Hiring and retention of nurses: payments to assist States

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**(a) Payment Program.—** The Secretary shall make payments to States under this section for the purpose of assisting State homes in the hiring and retention of nurses and the reduction of nursing shortages at State homes. **(b) Eligible Recipients.—** Payments to a State for a fiscal year under this section shall, subject to submission of an application, be made to any State that during that fiscal year— (1) receives per diem payments under this subchapter for that fiscal year; and (2) has in effect an employee incentive scholarship program or other employee incentive program at a State home designed to promote the hiring and retention of nursing staff and to reduce nursing shortages at that home. **(c) Use of Funds Received.—** A State may use an amount received under this section only to provide funds for a program described in subsection (b)(2). Any program shall meet such criteria as the Secretary may prescribe. In prescribing such criteria, the Secretary shall take into consideration the need for flexibility and innovation. **(d) Limitations on Amount of Payment.—** (1) A payment under this section may not be used to provide more than 50 percent of the costs for a fiscal year of the employee incentive scholarship or other employee incentive program for which the payment is made. (2) The amount of the payment to a State under this section for any fiscal year is, for each State home in that State with a program described in subsection (b)(2), the amount equal to 2 percent of the amount of payments estimated to be made to that State, for that State home, under [section 1741 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title38-section1741&num=0&edition=prelim) for that fiscal year. **(e) Applications.—** A payment under this section for any fiscal year with respect to any State home may only be made based upon an application submitted by the State seeking the payment with respect to that State home. Any such application shall describe the nursing shortage at the State home and the employee incentive scholarship program or other employee incentive program described in subsection (c) for which the payment is sought. **(f) Source of Funds.—** Payments under this section shall be made from funds available for other payments under this subchapter. **(g) Disbursement.—** Payments under this section to a State home shall be made as part of the disbursement of payments under [section 1741 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title38-section1741&num=0&edition=prelim) with respect to that State home. **(h) Use of Certain Receipts.—** The Secretary shall require as a condition of any payment under this section that, in any case in which the State home receives a refund payment made by an employee in breach of the terms of an agreement for employee assistance that used funds provided under this section, the payment shall be returned to the State home’s incentive program account and credited as a non-Federal funding source. **(i) Annual Report From Payment Recipients.—** Any State home receiving a payment under this section for any fiscal year, shall, as a condition of the payment, be required to agree to provide to the Secretary a report setting forth in detail the use of funds received through the payment, including a descriptive analysis of how effective the incentive program has been on nurse staffing in the State home during that fiscal year. The report for any fiscal year shall be provided to the Secretary within 60 days of the close of the fiscal year and shall be subject to audit by the Secretary. Eligibility for a payment under this section for any later fiscal year is contingent upon the receipt by the Secretary of the annual report under this subsection for the previous fiscal year in accordance with this subsection. **(j) Regulations.—** The Secretary shall prescribe regulations to carry out this section. The regulations shall include the establishment of criteria for the award of payments under this section.

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38 U.S.C. § 1741 — Criteria for payment

**(a)** (1) Except as provided in [section 1745 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title38-section1745&num=0&edition=prelim), the Secretary shall pay each State at the per diem rate of— (A) $8.70 for domiciliary care; and (B) $20.35 for nursing home care and hospital care, for each veteran receiving such care in a State home, if such veteran is eligible for such care under the laws administered by the Secretary. (2) The Secretary may pay each State per diem at a rate determined by the Secretary for each veteran receiving extended care services described in any of paragraphs (4) through (6) of [section 1710B(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title38-section1710B/a&num=0&edition=prelim) under a program administered by a State home, if such veteran is eligible for such care under laws administered by the Secretary. **(b)** In no case shall the payments made with respect to any veteran under this section exceed one-half of the cost of the veterans’ care in such State home. **(c)** Whenever the Secretary makes a determination pursuant to [section 1720(a)(2)(A) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title38-section1720/a/2/A&num=0&edition=prelim) that the cost of care furnished by the Department in a general hospital under the direct jurisdiction of the Secretary has increased, the Secretary may, effective no earlier than the date of such determination, increase the rates paid under subsection (a) of this section by a percentage not greater than the percentage by which the Secretary has determined that such cost of care has increased. **(d)** Subject to [section 1743 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-

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38 U.S.C. § 1744 — Hiring and retention of nurses: payments

Page 476 TITLE 38—VETERANS’ BENEFITS § 1743 AMENDMENTS 1991—Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), renumbered section 642 of this title as this section. Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(c)(1), substituted ‘‘1720(b)’’ for ‘‘620(b)’’. Pub. L. 102–83, § 4(b)(1), (2)(E), substituted ‘‘Sec- retary’’ for ‘‘Administrator’’ wherever appearing. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 102–83, § 4(b)(1), (2)(E), substituted ‘‘Secretary’’ for ‘‘Administrator’’. 1976—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 94–581 substituted ‘‘as the Administrator deems necessary’’ for ‘‘as he deems nec- essary’’ in existing provisions and inserted provision that no payment or grant may be made to any home under this subchapter unless such home is determined by the Administrator to meet such standards as the Ad- ministrator shall prescribe, which standards with re- spect to nursing home care shall be no less stringent than those prescribed pursuant to section 620(b) of this title. Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1976 AMENDMENT Amendment by Pub. L. 94–581 effective Oct. 21, 1976, see section 211 of Pub. L. 94–581, set out as a note under section 111 of this title. § 1743. Applications Payments on account of any veteran cared for in a State home shall be made under this sub- chapter only from the date the Secretary re- ceives a request for determination of such vet- eran’s eligibility; however, if such request is re- ceived by the Secretary within ten days after care of such veteran begins, payments shall be made on account of such veteran from the date care began. (Pub. L. 85–857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1147, § 643; Pub. L. 97–251, § 7, Sept. 8, 1982, 96 Stat. 716; re- numbered § 1743 and amended Pub. L. 102–83, §§ 4(b)(1), (2)(E), 5(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 404–406.) Editorial Notes PRIOR PRO

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