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 PUBLIC LAW 94-484—OCT. 12, 1976

90 STAT. 2289

financial obligation of a participant in the Public Health and National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program who fails to complete an active duty service obligation incurred under that Program shall apply to any individual who received a scholarship under such Program for any school year ending before September 30, 1977, irrespective of whether such individual received such a scholarship after that date. (C) Periods of internship or residency served before September 30, 1976, in a facility of the National Health Service Corps or other facility of the Public Health Service in accordance with an agreement entered into under section 225(b) of the Public Health Service Act 42 USC 234. (as in effect before that date) shall be creditable in satisfying a service obligation incurred under the Public Health and National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program as revised by this subsection. (c) Effective October 1, 1977, part C of title VII (as amended by 42 USC 294z subsections (a) and (b)) is amended by adding after subpart IV the note. following new subpart: "Subpart V—Other Scholarships " S C H O L A R S H I P S FOR FIRST-TEAR

S T U D E N T S o r EXCEPTIONAL FINANCIAIj

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"SEC. 758. (a) The Secretary shall make grants to a public or nonprofit school of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, optometry, pharmacy, podiatry, or veterinary medicine which is accredited as provided in section 721(b)(1)(B), for scholarships to be awarded by the school to full-time students thereof who are of exceptional financial need and who are in their first year of study at such school in the school year ending in the fiscal year in which such grant is made. "(b)(1) Scholarships may be awarded by a school from a grant under subsection (a) only to individuals who have been accepted by it for enrollment as full-time students in their first year of study at such school. "(2) A scholarship awarded to a student for a school year under a grant made under subsection (a) shall be the scholarship described in section 751(g). "(3) For purposes of this section, the term 'first year of study* means, with respect to a student of a school other than a school ol pharmacy, the student's first year of postbaccalaureate study at such school. "(c) The Secretary shall distribute grants under this section among all schools of the health professions, but shall give priority in distributing such grants to schools of medicine, osteopathy, and dentistry. "(d) For the purpose of making grants under this section, there is authorized to be appropriated $16,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, $17,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1979, and $18,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980.

Grants. 42 USC 294z.

"First year of study."

Appropriation authorization.

"LISTER HILL SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

"SEC. 759. (a) The Secretary annually shall make grants to at least 10 individuals (to be known as Lister Hill scholars) for scholarships of up to $8,000 per year for up to four years of medical school if such individuals agree to enter into the family practice of medicine in a health manpower shortage area in accordance with this section. Grants made under this section shall be made only from funds appropriated under subsection (b).

Grants. 42 USC 294aa.

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