§7424 — Title 38 Veterans' Benefits | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary can pay travel and other expenses (but not membership fees) for people named in sections 7306 and 7401(1), including some temporary or part‑time appointees under section 7405, when the Under Secretary for Health sends them to meetings of groups that promote medical and related science. The Secretary can also make rules letting VA officers and employees who are nationally recognized principal investigators accept cash or in‑kind payments from non‑Federal groups or people to cover travel and reasonable living costs approved under those rules. Those payments can be kept to pay the costs or must be returned to the VA fund, as the rules say.

Title 38, §7424

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(a)The Secretary may pay the expenses (other than membership fees) of persons described in section 7306 and 7401(1) of this title (including persons in positions described in section 7401(1) of this title who are appointed on a temporary full-time basis or a part-time basis under section 7405 of this title) who are detailed by the Under Secretary for Health to attend meetings of associations for the promotion of medical and related science.

(b)(1)The Secretary may prescribe regulations establishing conditions under which officers and employees of the Administration who are nationally recognized principal investigators in medical research may be permitted to accept payment, in cash or in kind, from non-Federal agencies, organizations, and individuals for travel and such reasonable subsistence expenses as are approved by the Secretary pursuant to such regulations—

(A)in connection with their attendance at meetings or in performing advisory services concerned with the functions or activities of the Department; or

(B)in connection with acceptance of significant awards or with activity related thereto concerned with functions or activities of the Department.

(2)Any such payment may be retained by such officers and employees to cover the cost of such expenses or shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation from which the cost of such expenses is paid, as may be provided in such regulations.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 4108(d) and 4113 of this title prior to the repeal of those sections as part of the complete revision of chapter 73 of this title by Pub. L. 102–40.

Amendments

1992—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102–405 substituted “Under Secretary for Health” for “Chief Medical Director”.

§7424 Travel expenses of certain employees