[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1753 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1753

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand the authority of the 
 Secretary of Veterans Affairs to suspend a special pay agreement for 
     physicians and dentists who enter residency training programs.


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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 expand the authority of the 
 Secretary of Veterans Affairs to suspend a special pay agreement for 
     physicians and dentists who enter residency training programs.

    Be in 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. Subsection 7432(b)(2) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``A'' after ``(2)'' before ``The'', and
            (2) adding a new subsection to read as follows:
                    ``(B) The Secretary may, in the case of a physician 
                or dentist who enters a residency training program, 
                suspend the special pay agreement. When the physician 
                or dentist completes, withdraws from or is no longer a 
                participant in the program, the special pay agreement 
                shall be reinstated. During such suspension the 
                physician or dentist shall not be subject to the refund 
                requirement of paragraph 1.''.
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