42 U.S.C. § 254v — Clarification regarding service in schools and other community-based settings
submitted 82 years ago by Pub. L. 115-271 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 189 words · no verdicts yet
This law lets agencies place Scholarship or Loan Repayment participants in schools needing mental health care. That service counts toward the participant's required service, unless the Secretary limits it. Any limit must still let a participant count at least half the required hours.
(a) Schools and community-based settings
An organization that a Scholarship Program or Loan Repayment Program participant is assigned to may direct that participant to work as a behavioral or mental health professional at a school or another community-based setting, as long as it is in a health professional shortage area.
(b) Obligated service*
(1) In general: Any service the participant provides under (a) can count toward finishing their required service under the Scholarship or Loan Repayment Program, subject to the limit in (2).
(2) Limitation: The Secretary* may limit how many hours of this school or community service count toward the required service. But the limit can't be so strict that it stops a participant from crediting at least 50 percent of their total required hours this way.
(c) Rule of construction
This permission applies "notwithstanding" any other provision of this subpart or subpart II — meaning it overrides any conflicting rule elsewhere in those parts.
An entity to which a participant in the Scholarship Program or the Loan Repayment Program (referred to in this section as a “participant”) is assigned under section 254f of this title may direct such participant to provide service* as a behavioral or mental health professional at a school or other community-based setting located in a health professional shortage area.
Any service described in subsection (a) that a participant provides may count towards such participant’s completion of any obligated service requirements under the Scholarship Program or the Loan Repayment Program, subject to any limitation imposed under paragraph (2).
The Secretary* may impose a limitation on the number of hours of service described in subsection (a) that a participant may credit towards completing obligated service requirements, provided that the limitation allows a member to credit service described in subsection (a) for not less than 50 percent of the total hours required to complete such obligated service requirements.
The authorization under subsection (a) shall be notwithstanding any other provision of this subpart or subpart II.
Source credit: (July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, § 338N, as added Pub. L. 115–271, title VII, § 7072, Oct. 24, 2018, 132 Stat. 4030.)
- 1944Enacted · Pub. L. 115-271 · 132 Stat. 4030
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 115-271 on 1944-07-01.
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