Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73

§254v Clarification regarding service in schools and other community-based settings

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 6A— - PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES › Part Part D— - Primary Health Care › Subpart subpart iii— - scholarship program and loan repayment program › § 254v

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

An organization a Scholarship or Loan Repayment Program participant is sent to can require them to serve as a behavioral or mental health provider at a school or community site in a health professional shortage area. That service can count toward their required program service. The Secretary can limit how many hours count, but at least 50 percent must count. This overrides other rules.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §254v

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(a)An entity to which a participant in the Scholarship Program or the Loan Repayment Program (referred to in this section as a “participant”) is assigned under section 254f of this title may direct such participant to provide service as a behavioral or mental health professional at a school or other community-based setting located in a health professional shortage area.

(b)(1)Any service described in subsection (a) that a participant provides may count towards such participant’s completion of any obligated service requirements under the Scholarship Program or the Loan Repayment Program, subject to any limitation imposed under paragraph (2).

(2)The Secretary may impose a limitation on the number of hours of service described in subsection (a) that a participant may credit towards completing obligated service requirements, provided that the limitation allows a member to credit service described in subsection (a) for not less than 50 percent of the total hours required to complete such obligated service requirements.

(c)The authorization under subsection (a) shall be notwithstanding any other provision of this subpart or subpart II.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 254v

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73