§4745 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

The Office can give grants to State and local governments to pay for Government Service Fellowships for their employees. The grants can pay for things like a fellow’s books, travel, and related expenses; reimburse the employer for up to one-fourth of the fellow’s salary during the fellowship; and pay amounts to the school that match usual federal program practices, minus any tuition or nonrefundable fees the fellow must pay. Fellowships may be no more than two years of full-time graduate-level study for professional, administrative, and technical employees. The Office will make rules that include eligibility. The State or local government must pick the fellows, keep paying the fellow’s full salary and normal benefits (seniority credit, leave, retirement, insurance), and explain how the employee will return to public service in its grant application.

Title 42, §4745

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(a)The Office is authorized to make grants to State and general local governments to support programs approved by the Office for providing Government Service Fellowships for State and local government personnel. The grants may cover—

(1)the necessary costs of the fellowship recipient’s books, travel, and transportation, and such related expenses as may be authorized by the Office;

(2)reimbursement to the State or local government for not to exceed one-fourth of the salary of each fellow during the period of the fellowship; and

(3)payment to the educational institutions involved of such amounts as the Office determines to be consistent with prevailing practices under comparable federally supported programs for each fellow, less any amount charged the fellow for tuition and nonrefundable fees and deposits.

(b)Fellowships awarded under this section may not exceed two years of full-time graduate-level study for professional, administrative, and technical employees. The regulations of the Office shall include eligibility criteria for the selection of fellowship recipients by State and local governments.

(c)The State or local government concerned shall—

(1)select the individual recipients of the fellowships;

(2)during the period of the fellowship, continue the full salary of the recipient and normal employment benefits such as credit for seniority, leave accrual, retirement, and insurance; and

(3)make appropriate plans for the utilization and continuation in public service of employees completing fellowships and outline such plans in the application for the grant.

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“Office”, meaning Office of Personnel Management, substituted for “Commission”, meaning Civil Service Commission, in subsecs. (a) and (b) pursuant to Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1978, § 102, 43 F.R. 36037, 92 Stat. 3783, set out under section 1101 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, which transferred functions vested by statute in Civil Service Commission and Chairman thereof to Director of Office of Personnel Management (except as otherwise specified), effective Jan. 1, 1979, as provided by section 1–102 of Ex. Ord. No. 12107, Dec. 28, 1978, 44 F.R. 1055, set out under section 1101 of Title 5.

§4745 Government Service Fellowships

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Title 42, §4745

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