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Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-110

§4745 Government Service Fellowships

Title 42 › CHAPTER 62 — INTERGOVERNMENTAL PERSONNEL PROGRAM › SUBCHAPTER III — TRAINING AND DEVELOPING STATE AND LOCAL EMPLOYEES › § 4745

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Office can give grants to State and local governments to run Government Service Fellowship programs for their employees. The grants can pay for a fellow’s books, travel, and other approved costs; repay up to one-fourth of a fellow’s salary during the fellowship; and pay colleges amounts the Office finds appropriate under similar federal programs, minus any tuition or nonrefundable fees the fellow must pay. Fellowships can be no more than two years of full-time graduate study for professional, administrative, or technical employees. The Office will set eligibility rules. States and local governments choose the fellows, must keep paying the fellow’s full salary and usual benefits while they study, and must include plans in the grant application for using and keeping the employee in public service after the fellowship.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §4745

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(a)Diverse payments
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)Period of fellowships; eligibility criteria
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)Selection of fellows; continuation of salary and employment benefits; public service plans upon completion of study: outline of plans in application for grant
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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Notes & Related Subsidiaries

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Transfer of Functions

“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.

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42 U.S.C. § 4745

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110