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

Summary

The Secretary may pay travel and related costs, but not membership fees, for people named in sections 7306 and 7401(1) (including 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 set rules that let nationally recognized principal investigators in medical research who work for the Administration accept cash or noncash payments from non‑Federal groups for travel and reasonable living costs approved by the Secretary. Those payments may be kept to cover the expenses or put back into the same government fund that paid them, 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