PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

People who get a scholarship under section 1613a can work for the Service (Indian Health Service) during school breaks. Those work periods do not count toward the service the scholarship requires. Students studying health professions may also be hired during breaks, but their work cannot go over 120 days in any calendar year. These jobs do not have to follow regular competitive hiring rules or agency staffing limits. The work must give practical health‑care experience. Pay must be similar to what the person would earn in a regular competitive job. These employees are not counted against any hiring caps for the Service or the Department of Health and Human Services.

Title 25, §1614

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(a)Employment of scholarship grantees during nonacademic periods

Any individual who receives a scholarship grant pursuant to section 1613a of this title shall be entitled to employment in the Service during any nonacademic period of the year. Periods of employment pursuant to this subsection shall not be counted in determining the fulfillment of the service obligation incurred as a condition of the scholarship grant.

(b)Employment of medical and other students during nonacademic periods

Any individual enrolled in a course of study in the health professions may be employed by the Service during any nonacademic period of the year. Any such employment shall not exceed one hundred and twenty days during any calendar year.

(c)Employment without regard to competitive personnel system or agency personnel limitation; compensation

Any employment pursuant to this section shall be made without regard to any competitive personnel system or agency personnel limitation and to a position which will enable the individual so employed to receive practical experience in the health profession in which he or she is engaged in study. Any individual so employed shall receive payment for his or her services comparable to the salary he or she would receive if he or she were employed in the competitive system. Any individual so employed shall not be counted against any employment ceiling affecting the Service or the Department of Health and Human Services.

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1992—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102–573, § 102(e)(1), substituted “section 1613a of this title” for “section 254r of title 42”. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 102–573, § 102(e)(2), substituted “course of study in the health professions” for “school of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, podiatry, pharmacy, public health, nursing, or allied health professions”. Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 102–573, § 902(2)(B), substituted “Department of Health and Human Services” for “Department of Health, Education, and Welfare”. Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 102–573, § 117(b)(2), struck out subsec. (d) which authorized appropriations for fiscal years 1989 to 1992. 1988—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 100–713 amended subsec. (d) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (d) read as follows: “There are authorized to be appropriated for the purpose of this section: $600,000 for fiscal year 1978, $800,000 for fiscal year 1979, and $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1980. There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $990,000 for the fiscal year ending

September 30, 1981, $1,140,000 for the fiscal year ending

September 30, 1982, $1,310,000 for the fiscal year ending

September 30, 1983, and $1,510,000 for the fiscal year ending

September 30, 1984.” 1980—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 96–537 substituted provisions authorizing appropriations of specific amounts for fiscal years ending Sept. 30, 1981, Sept. 30, 1982, Sept. 30, 1983, and Sept. 30, 1984, for provisions authorizing appropriation of such amounts as may be specifically authorized by an act enacted after Sept. 30, 1976. 1977—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 95–83 substituted reference to “section 294y–1 of title 42” for reference to “section 104” meaning section 104 of Pub. L. 94–437, which added section 234(i)(2) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare.

§1614 Indian Health Service Extern Programs

Summary

Title 25, §1614

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