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Title 38 — Veterans’ Benefits

Part V · Chapter 74 — Veterans Health Administration—Personnel

§ 7411. Full-time board-certified physicians and dentists: reimbursement of continuing professional education expenses

Statutory text

The Secretary shall reimburse any full-time board-certified physician or dentist appointed under section 7401(1) of this title for expenses incurred, up to $1,000 per year, for continuing professional education.

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. Department of Veterans Affairs Physician and Dentist Recruitment and Retention Act of 1991

    Pub. L. 102–40 title I § 103(a)(s1) · 105 Stat. 187

    Enacted · 38 U.S.C. § 7411

    (Added Pub. L. 102–40, title I, § 103(a)[(1)], May 7, 1991, 105 Stat. 199.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Added Pub. L. 102–40, title I, § 103(a)[(1)], May 7, 1991, 105 Stat. 199.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (a) In General.— Subchapter I of chapter 74 (as added by section 401(b)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the following sections: “§ 7410. Additional pay authorities “The Secretary may authorize the Chief Medical Director to pay advance payments, recruitment or relocation bonuses, and retention allowances to the personnel described in paragraph (1) of section 7401 of this title, or interview expenses to candidates for appointment as such personnel, in the same manner, and subject to the same limitations, as in the case of the authority provided under sections 5524a, 5706b, 5753, and 5754 of title 5. “§ 7411. Full-time board-certified physicians and dentists: reimbursement of continuing professional education expenses “The Secretary shall reimburse any full-time board-certified physician or dentist appointed under section 7401(1) of this title for expenses incurred, up to 81,000 per year, for continuing professional education.”. (2) The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 74 (as amended by section 401(b)(1)(A)) is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 7409 the following: “7410. Additional pay authorities. “7411. Full-time board-certified physicians and dentists: reimbursement of continuing professional education expenses.”.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Pub. L. 102–40, title I, § 103(b), , 105 Stat. 199, provided that: “Section 7411 of title 38, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), shall apply with respect to expenses incurred for continuing professional education that is pursued after .”

Credits

(Added Pub. L. 102–40, title I, § 103(a)[(1)], , 105 Stat. 199.)

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