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Title 5 — Government Organization and EmployeesRelease 119-73

§5354 Effect of detail or affiliation; travel expenses

Title 5 › Part PART III— - EMPLOYEES › Subpart Subpart D— - Pay and Allowances › Chapter CHAPTER 53— - PAY RATES AND SYSTEMS › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER V— - STUDENT-EMPLOYEES › § 5354

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

You keep your student-employee status when your agency temporarily sends you to another government or non-government hospital, clinic, or lab for extra training ordered by the agency head. While you are there, you can get your regular stipend and other benefits from the host for up to 60 days of detail or affiliation in each training year. The agency head decides what a "training year" is. If the temporary assignment is to another Federal institution, you are entitled to necessary travel expenses to and from that institution under the travel rules in subchapter I of chapter 57 of this title.

Full Legal Text

Title 5, §5354

Government Organization and Employees — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Status as a student-employee is not terminated by a temporary detail to or affiliation with another Government or non-Government institution to procure necessary supplementary training or experience pursuant to an order of the head of the agency. A student-employee may receive his stipend and other perquisites provided under this subchapter from the hospital, clinic, or laboratory to which he is assigned or attached for not more than 60 days of a detail or affiliation for each training year, as defined by the head of the agency.
(b)When the detail or affiliation under subsection (a) of this section is to or with another Federal institution, the student-employee is entitled to necessary expenses of travel to and from the institution in accordance with subchapter I of chapter 57 of this title.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

DerivationU.S. CodeRevised Statutes andStatutes at Large 5 U.S.C. 1055.Aug. 4, 1947, ch. 452, § 6, 61 Stat. 728. In subsection (b), the reference to “subchapter I of chapter 57 of this title” is substituted for the reference to “the Standardized Government Travel

Regulations

and the provisions of the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, as amended” as the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926 was repealed by section 9(a) of the Travel Expense Act of 1949, 63 Stat. 167, part of which appeared in former section 842 and is carried into section 5708, and as the authority for the Standardized Government Travel

Regulations

in former section 840 is carried into section 5707 of subchapter I of chapter 57. Standard changes are made to conform with the definitions applicable and the style of this title as outlined in the preface to the report.

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Citations & Metadata

Citation

5 U.S.C. § 5354

Title 5 — Government Organization and Employees

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73