[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1752 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1752

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to exempt full-time registered 
nurses, physician assistants, and expanded-function dental auxiliaries 
   from restrictions on remunerated outside professional activities.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 13, 1996

Mr. Simpson (by request) introduced the following bill; which was read 
        twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 38, United States Code, to exempt full-time registered 
nurses, physician assistants, and expanded-function dental auxiliaries 
   from restrictions on remunerated outside professional activities.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That except as 
otherwise expressly provided, whenever in this Act an amendment is 
expressed in terms of an amendment to a section or other provision, the 
reference shall be considered to be made to a section or other 
provision of title 38, United States Code.
    Sec. 2. Section 7423 is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b) by striking paragraph (1) and 
        redesignating paragraphs (2), (3), (4), (5), and (6) as 
        paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4), and (5);
            (2) by redesignating subsections (c), (d), (e), and (f) as 
        subsections (d), (e), (f), and (g); and
            (3) by inserting after subsection (b) the following new 
        subsection (c):
    ``(c) A physician, dentist, podiatrist, or optometrist appointed as 
a full-time employee under this title (other than an intern or resident 
appointed pursuant to section 7406 of this title) may not assume 
responsibility for the medical care of any patient other than a patient 
admitted for treatment at a Department facility, except in those cases 
where the appointee, upon request and with the approval of the Under 
Secretary for Health, assumes such responsibilities to assist 
communities or medical practice groups to meet medical needs which 
would not otherwise be met for a period not to exceed 180 calendar 
days, which may be extended by the Under Secretary for Health for 
additional periods not to exceed 180 calendar days each.''.
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