[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3203 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3203

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to codify the requirements for 
appointment, qualifications, and pay for therapeutic medical physicists 
     of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 16, 2020

  Mr. Kaine (for himself and Ms. Murkowski) 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 codify the requirements for 
appointment, qualifications, and pay for therapeutic medical physicists 
     of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Department of Veterans Affairs 
Therapeutic Medical Physicist Pay Cap Relief Act''.

SEC. 2. TREATMENT OF THERAPEUTIC MEDICAL PHYSICISTS OF THE DEPARTMENT 
              OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.

    (a) Appointment.--Section 7401(1) of title 38, United States Code, 
is amended by inserting ``therapeutic medical physicists,'' after 
``physician assistants,''.
    (b) Qualifications.--Section 7402(b) of such title is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraph (14) as paragraph (15); and
            (2) by inserting after paragraph (13) the following new 
        paragraph (14):
    ``(14) Therapeutic Medical Physicist.--To be eligible to be 
appointed to a therapeutic medical physicist position, a person must--
            ``(A) have completed a post-graduate clinical training 
        program in therapeutic medical physics satisfactory to the 
        Secretary; and
            ``(B) be board certified in the field of therapeutic 
        medical physics by a certifying body approved by the 
        Secretary.''.
    (c) Grade.--The list in section 7404(b) of such title is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``THERAPEUTIC MEDICAL PHYSICIST,'' after 
        ``PODIATRIST,''; and
            (2) by inserting after the item relating to ``Podiatrist 
        grade.'' the following new item:
    ``Therapeutic Medical Physicist Grade.''.
    (d) Personnel Administration.--Section 7421(b) of such title is 
amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(9) Therapeutic medical physicists.''.
    (e) Pay.--
            (1) In general.--Section 7431 of such title is amended--
                    (A) by inserting ``therapeutic medical physicist,'' 
                after ``podiatrist,'' each place it appears;
                    (B) by inserting ``therapeutic medical 
                physicists,'' after ``podiatrists,'' each place it 
                appears;
                    (C) by inserting ``Therapeutic Medical Physicist,'' 
                after ``Podiatrist,'' each place it appears; and
                    (D) in subsection (e)(1)(A), by inserting ``, 
                therapeutic medical physicists,'' after 
                ``podiatrists''.
            (2) Administrative matters.--Section 7433 of such title is 
        amended by inserting ``therapeutic medical physicists,'' after 
        ``podiatrists,'' each place it appears.
            (3) Conforming amendment.--The heading of subchapter III of 
        chapter 74 of such title is amended by inserting ``THERAPEUTIC 
        MEDICAL PHYSICISTS,'' after ``PODIATRISTS,''.
            (4) Clerical amendment.--The table of sections at the 
        beginning of chapter 74 of such title is amended by striking 
        the item relating to subchapter III and inserting the following 
        new item:

 ``subchapter iii--pay for physicians, podiatrists, therapeutic medical 
                      physicists, and dentists''.

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