Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 102 Part 1.djvu/564

 102 STAT. 526

38 USC 4322.

PUBLIC LAW 100-322—MAY 20, 1988

"(c) An agreement between the Administrator and a participant in the Tuition Reimbursement Program shall (in addition to the requirements set forth in section 4304 of this title) contain the following: "(1) The Administrator's agreement to provide the participant with tuition reimbursement following successful completion (as determined, pursuant to regulations prescribed by the Administrator, by the educational institution involved) of (A) a course or courses required for the course of study described in subsection (a) of this section, or (B) a course or courses taken as necessary prerequisites for degree program enrollment if a letter regarding the potential enrollment of the participant from an appropriate official of the institution involved includes a statement specifying such prerequisites. "(2) The participant s agreement— "(A) to maintain employment, while enrolled in the course of training being pursued by such participant, as a full-time Veterans' Administration employee in the Department of Medicine and Surgery permanently assigned to a Veterans' Administration health-care facility; and "(B) to continue to serve as a full-time employee in such Department for one year (hereinafter in this subchapter referred to as the 'period of obligated service') after completion of the course for which the participant received tuition reimbursement. "(d) Tuition reimbursement provided to a participant in the Tuition Reimbursement Program may not exceed $2,000 per year adjusted in accordance with section 4331 of this title). "(e) The Administrator may arrange with an educational institution pursuant to which such an institution would provide a course or courses at a Veterans' Administration health-care facility to participants in the Tuition Reimbursement Program. Under such an arrangement, the Administrator may agree to pay to the institution an amount not in excess of an amount determined by multiplying the number of participants in such a course by the amount of tuition reimbursement each participant would receive for enrolling and successfully completing such course. "§ 4323. Obligated service "(a) Each participant in the Tuition Reimbursement Program shall provide service in the full-time clinical practice of such participant's profession as a full-time employee of the Veterans' Administration for the period of obligated service provided in the agreement of such participant entered into under section 4303 of this title. "(b) A participant who on such participant's course completion date is a full-time employee in the D e p ^ m e n t of Medicine and SuiTgery shall be considered to have begun serving such participant's period of obligated service on the course completion date. "(c) Except in the case of a participant whose tuition was paid pursuant to section 4322(f) of this title, if a participant in the Tuition Reimbursement Program fails to successfully complete a course, no reimbursement will be provided and no period of obligated service will be incurred. "(d) In the case of a participant whose tuition was paid pursuant to section 4322(f) of this title and who fails to complete the course involved, the period of obligation shall be of the same duration as it would have been if the participant had successfully completed the

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