§ 1615. Continuing education allowances

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1976

   Indian Health Care Improvement Act

   Pub. L. 94–437 title I § 106 · 90 Stat. 1400

   Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 1615

   Pub. L. 94–437, title I, § 106, Sept. 30, 1976, 90 Stat. 1404

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 94–437, title I, § 106, Sept. 30, 1976, 90 Stat. 1404

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 106. continuing education allowances (a) In order to encourage physicians, dentists, and other health professionals to join or continue in the Service and to provide their services in the rural and remote areas where a significant portion of the Indian people resides, the Secretary, acting through the Service, may provide allowances to health professionals employed in the Service to enable them for a period of time each year prescribed by regulation of the Secretary to take leave of their duty stations for professional consultation and refresher training courses. (b) There are authorized to be appropriated for the purpose of this section: $100,000 for fiscal year 1978, $200,000 for fiscal year 1979, and $250,000 for fiscal year 1980. For fiscal years 1981, 1982, 1983, and 1984 there are authorized to be appropriated for the purpose of this section such sums as may be specifically authorized by an Act enacted after this Act.

2. 1988

   Indian Health Care Amendments of 1988

   Pub. L. 100–713 title I § 105 · 102 Stat. 4784

   Amended · 25 U.S.C. § 1615(b)

   Pub. L. 100–713 amended subsec. (b) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (b) read as follows: “There are authorized to be appropriated for the purpose of this section: $100,000 for fiscal year 1978, $200,000 for fiscal year 1979, and $250,000 for fiscal year 1980. For fiscal years 1981, 1982, 1983, and 1984 there are authorized to be appropriated for the purpose of this section such sums as may be specifically authorized by an Act enacted after this chapter.”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 100–713 amended subsec. (b) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (b) read as follows: “There are authorized to be appropriated for the purpose of this section: $100,000 for fiscal year 1978, $200,000 for fiscal year 1979, and $250,000 for fiscal year 1980. For fiscal years 1981, 1982, 1983, and 1984 there are authorized to be appropriated for the purpose of this section such sums as may be specifically authorized by an Act enacted after this chapter.”

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 105. continuing education allowances Subsection (b) of section 106 (25 U.S.C. 1615(b)) is amended to read as follows: “(b) There are authorized to be appropriated for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this section— “(1) $500,000 for fiscal year 1989, “(2) $526,300 for fiscal year 1990, “(3) $553,800 for fiscal year 1991, and “(4) $582,500 for fiscal year 1992.”.

3. 1992

   Indian Health Amendments of 1992

   Pub. L. 102–573 § 104(a) · 106 Stat. 4526

   Inserted · 25 U.S.C. § 1615(a)

   Pub. L. 102–573, § 104(a), inserted “nurses,” after “physicians, dentists,”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102–573, § 104(a), inserted “nurses,” after “physicians, dentists,”.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (a) Continuing Education Allowances.— Section 106(a) of the Act (25 U.S.C. 1615(a)) is amended by inserting “nurses,” after “dentists,”.

4. 1992

   Indian Health Amendments of 1992

   Pub. L. 102–573 § 115 · 106 Stat. 4526

   Amended · 25 U.S.C. § 1615(b)

   Pub. L. 102–573, § 115, amended subsec. (b) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (b) read as follows: “There are authorized to be appropriated for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this section—

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 102–573, § 115, amended subsec. (b) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (b) read as follows: “There are authorized to be appropriated for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this section—

   “(1) $500,000 for fiscal year 1989, “(2) $526,300 for fiscal year 1990, “(3) $553,800 for fiscal year 1991, and “(4) $582,500 for fiscal year 1992.”

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   SEC. 115. CONTINUING EDUCATION ALLOWANCES. Section 106(b) of the Act (25 U.S.C. 1615(b)) is amended to read as follows: “(b) Of amounts appropriated under the authority of this title for each fiscal year to be used to carry out this section, not more than $1,000,000 may be used to establish postdoctoral training programs for health professionals.”.

5. 2010

   Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

   Pub. L. 111–148 title X § 10221(a) · 124 Stat. 119

   Amended · 25 U.S.C. § 1615

   Pub. L. 111–148 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, section related to discretionary allowances to health professionals employed in the Service to take leave for professional consultation and refresher training courses and included a limitation on use of appropriations to establish postdoctoral training programs for health professionals

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 111–148 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, section related to discretionary allowances to health professionals employed in the Service to take leave for professional consultation and refresher training courses and included a limitation on use of appropriations to establish postdoctoral training programs for health professionals.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (a) In General.— Except as provided in subsection (b), S. 1790 entitled “A bill to amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to revise and extend that Act, and for other purposes.”, as reported by the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate in December 2009, is enacted into law.

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