Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 102 Part 1.djvu/559

 PUBLIC LAW 100-322—MAY 20, 1988

102 STAT. 521

"(c)(1) An agreement between the Administrator and a participant in the Scholarship Program shall (in addition to the requirements set forth in section 4304 of this title) include the following: "(A) The Administrator's agreement to provide the participant with a scholarship under this subchapter for a specified number (from one to four) of school years during which the participant is pursuing a course of education or training described in section 4302 of this title. "(B) The participant's agreement to serve as a full-time employee in the Department of Medicine and Surgery for a period of time (hereinafter in this subchapter referred to as the 'period of obligated service') of one calendar year for each school year or part thereof for which the participant was provided a scholarship under the Scholarship Program. "(2) In a case in which an extension is granted under section 4314(3) of this title, the number of years for which a scholarship may be provided under this subchapter shall be the number of school years provided for as a result of the extension. "(3) In the case of a participant who is a part-time student— "(A) the period of obligated service shall be reduced in accordance with the proportion that the number of credit hours carried by such participant in any such school year bears to the number of credit hours required to be carried by a full-time student in the course of training being pursued by the participant, but in no event to less than one year; and "(B) the agreement shall include the participant's agreement to maintain employment, while enrolled in such course of education or training, as a Veterans' Administration employee permanently assigned to a Veterans' Administration healthcare facility. "(4) If a participant's period of obligated service is deferred under section 4316(b)(3)(A)(i) of this title, the agreement terms under paragraph (1) of this subsection shall provide for the participant to serve any additional period of obligated service that is prescribed by the Administrator under section 4316(b)(4)(B) of this title. "§ 4313. Scholarship 38 USC 4313. "(a) A scholarship provided to a participant in the Scholarship Program for a school year under the Scholarship Program shall consist of payment of the tuition of the participant for that school year, payment of other reasonable educational expenses (including fees, books, and laboratory expenses) for that school year, and a stipend determined under subsection Qa) of this section. "(b) A stipend under this section for a school year shall be payment to the participant of not in excess of $485 per month (adjusted in accordance with section 4331 of this title) for each of the 12 consecutive months beginning with the first month of the school year, except that a stipend may not be paid to a participant who is a full-time employee of the Veterans' Administration. The stipend of a participant who is a part-time student shall be adjusted as provided in sections 4314(1) and 4314(2) of this title. "(c) The Administrator may arrange with an educational institution in which a participant in the Scholarship Program is enrolled for the payment to the educational institution of the amounts of tuition and other reasonable educational expenses described in subsection (a) of this section. Such payments may be made without regard to subsections (a) and (b) of section 3324 of title 31.

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