# VA Health Professional Scholarship and Visual Impairment and Orientation and Mobility Professional Scholarship Programs
> **US Department of Veterans Affairs** · Final rule. · Published 2013-08-20 · Effective 2013-09-19 · 78 FR 51067
## Document
- **Document number:** 2013-20255
- **Category:** va-education
- **Agency:** US Department of Veterans Affairs
- **Federal Register citation:** 78 FR 51067
- **CFR reference:** 38 CFR 17
- **Publication date:** 2013-08-20
- **Effective date:** 2013-09-19
## Abstract

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is amending its VA Health Professional Scholarship Program (HPSP) regulations. VA is also establishing regulations for a new program, the Visual Impairment and Orientation and Mobility Professional Scholarship Program (VIOMPSP). These regulations comply with and implement sections 302 and 603 of the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act of 2010 (the 2010 Act). Section 302 of the 2010 Act established the VIOMPSP, which authorizes VA to provide financial assistance to certain students seeking a degree in visual impairment or orientation or mobility, in order to increase the supply of qualified blind rehabilitation specialists for VA and the United States. Section 603 of the 2010 Act reauthorized and modified HPSP, a program that provides scholarships for education or training in certain health care occupations.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2013/08/20/2013-20255/va-health-professional-scholarship-and-visual-impairment-and-orientation-and-mobility-professional)
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