2004 US Code
Title 38 - VETERANS BENEFITS
PART I - GENERAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 3 - DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
Sec. 308 - Assistant Secretaries; Deputy Assistant Secretaries
View MetadataPublication Title | United States Code, 2000 Edition, Supplement 4, Title 38 - VETERANS’ BENEFITS |
Category | Bills and Statutes |
Collection | United States Code |
SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
Contained Within | Title 38 - VETERANS’ BENEFITS PART I - GENERAL PROVISIONS CHAPTER 3 - DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Sec. 308 - Assistant Secretaries; Deputy Assistant Secretaries |
Contains | section 308 |
Date | 2004 |
Laws in Effect as of Date | January 3, 2005 |
Positive Law | Yes |
Disposition | standard |
Source Credit | Added Pub. L. 102-83, §2(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 381; amended Pub. L. 107-287, §5(a)-(c), Nov. 7, 2002, 116 Stat. 2030. |
Statutes at Large References | 105 Stat. 381 116 Stat. 2030 |
Public Law References | Public Law 100-527, Public Law 102-83, Public Law 107-287 |
§308. Assistant Secretaries; Deputy Assistant Secretaries
(a) There shall be in the Department not more than seven Assistant Secretaries. Each Assistant Secretary shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
(b) The Secretary shall assign to the Assistant Secretaries responsibility for the administration of such functions and duties as the Secretary considers appropriate, including the following functions:
(1) Budgetary and financial functions.
(2) Personnel management and labor relations functions.
(3) Planning, studies, and evaluations.
(4) Management, productivity, and logistic support functions.
(5) Information management functions as required by section 3506 of title 44.
(6) Capital facilities and real property program functions.
(7) Equal opportunity functions.
(8) Functions regarding the investigation of complaints of employment discrimination within the Department.
(9) Functions regarding intergovernmental, public, and consumer information and affairs.
(10) Procurement functions.
(11) Operations, preparedness, security, and law enforcement functions.
(c) Whenever the President nominates an individual for appointment as an Assistant Secretary, the President shall include in the communication to the Senate of the nomination a statement of the particular functions of the Department specified in subsection (b), and any other functions of the Department, the individual will exercise upon taking office.
(d)(1) There shall be in the Department such number of Deputy Assistant Secretaries, not exceeding 19, as the Secretary may determine. Each Deputy Assistant Secretary shall be appointed by the Secretary and shall perform such functions as the Secretary prescribes.
(2) At least two-thirds of the number of positions established and filled under paragraph (1) shall be filled by individuals who have at least five years of continuous service in the Federal civil service in the executive branch immediately preceding their appointment as a Deputy Assistant Secretary. For purposes of determining such continuous service of an individual, there shall be excluded any service by such individual in a position—
(A) of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character;
(B) in which such individual served as a noncareer appointee in the Senior Executive Service, as such term is defined in section 3132(a)(7) of title 5; or
(C) to which such individual was appointed by the President.
(Added Pub. L. 102–83, §2(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 381; amended Pub. L. 107–287, §5(a)–(c), Nov. 7, 2002, 116 Stat. 2030.)
Prior ProvisionsProvisions similar to those in this section were contained in sections 4(a), (b), (e) and 5 of Pub. L. 100–527, known as the Department of Veterans Affairs Act, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 102–83, §3(3).
Amendments2002—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 107–287, §5(a), substituted “seven” for “six” in first sentence.
Subsec. (b)(11). Pub. L. 107–287, §5(b), added par. (11).
Subsec. (d)(1). Pub. L. 107–287, §5(c), substituted “19” for “18”.
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