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 PUBLIC LAW 100-456—SEPT. 29, 1988

102 STAT. 1981

(ii) a single military health care professional incentive compensation program (in lieu of special pay provided under chapter 5 of title 37, United States Code) which provides incentive compensation in sufficient amounts to ensure that the total amount of such compensation to which such health care professionals are entitled under the provisions of titles 10 and 37, United States Code, is competitive with the compensation paid comparable health care professionals (considering age, education, experience, certification, training, and other appropriate criteria) who are health care professionals employed in the private sector in employment other than self-employment. (h) LIMITATION ON OBLIGATIONS.—The total amount of payments made during fiscal year 1989 under this section may not exceed $30,000,000. (i) TERNUNATION OF AUTHORITY.—If both reports required by paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (g) are not received by the committees named in such paragraphs by the respective dates specified in such paragraphs, the authority to make payments under this section shall terminate effective December 2, 1988. SEC. 613. SPECIAL PAY FOR CRITICALLY SHORT WARTIME HEALTH SPECIALISTS IN THE SELECTED RESERVE

37 USC 302 note.

(a) IN GENERAL.—(1) An officer of a reserve component of the Contracts. Armed Forces described in paragraph (2) who executes a written agreement under which the officer agrees to serve in the Selected Reserve of an armed force for a period of not less than one year nor more than three years, beginning on the date the officer accepts the award of special pay under this section, may be paid special pay at an annual rate not to exceed $10,000. (2) An officer referred to in paragraph (1) is an officer in a health care profession who is qualified in a specialty designated by regulations as a critically short wartime specialty. (3) Special pay under this section shall be paid annually at the beginning of each twelve-month period for which the officer has agreed to serve. (b) REFUND REQUIREMENT.—An officer who voluntarily terminates service in the Selected Reserve of an armed force before the end of the period for which a payment was made to such officer under this section shall refund to the United States the full amount of the payment made for the period on which the payment was based. (c) INAPPUCABILITY OF DISCHARGE IN BANKRUPTCY.—A discharge Contracts. in bankruptcy under title 11, United States C!ode, that is entered less than 5 years after the termination of an agreement under this section does not discharge the person receiving such special pay from the debt arising under the agreement. (d)

TERMINATION OF AGREEMENT AUTHORFFY.—No

agreement

under this section may be entered into after September 30, 1990. (e) PURPOSE OF PROGRAM.—The authority provided under this section shall be used only for the purpose of establishing and conducting a pilot test program to determine the effect that the p r ( ^ a m provided for in this section has on the retention of officers who are qualified in specialties designated by regulation as critically short wartime specialties. (f) REGULATIONS.—(1) This section shall be administered under regulations prescribed by the Secretary concerned and approved by the Secretary of Defense.

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