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 PUBLIC LAW 97-251—SEPT. 8, 1982 "(II) If the Administrator determines it to be further necessary in order to obtain or retain the services of nurses at a particular facility, a nurse to whom this paragraph is applicable who performs service in excess of such nurse's regularly scheduled two twelvehour tours of duty may be paid overtime pay under subsection (e)(5) of this section, or other applicable law, for all or part of the hours of officially ordered or approved service performed by such nurse in excess of forty hours during an administrative workweek. "(3) A nurse described in paragraph (2)(A) of this subsection who is absent on approved sick leave or annual leave during a regularly scheduled twelve-hour tour of duty shall be charged for such leave at a rate of five hours of leave for three hours of absence. "(4) The Administrator shall prescribe regulations for the implementation of this subsection.". (d)(1) Not later than one hundred and twenty days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs shall publish in the Federal Register, for public review and comment for a period of not to exceed sixty days, proposed regulations for the implementation of subsection (e)(10) of section 4107 of title 38, United States Code (as amended by subsection (a) of this section), subsection (g) of such section, and subsection (h) of such section (as added by subsection (c) of this section). (2) Not later than three hundred days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs shall publish in the Federal Register final regulations for the implementation of such subsections.

96 STAT. 713

Regulations. Proposed regulations; publication in Federal Register. 38 USC 4107 note.

Final regulations; publication in Federal Register.

HEALTH PROFESSIONAL SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

SEC. 3. (a) Section 4142 is amended— (1) in subsection (a)— (A) by striking out "full-time" in clause (1); and (B) by adding below clause (4) the following new sentences: "To be accepted as a participant in the Scholarship Program, an individual must be accepted for enrollment or be enrolled (as described in clause (1) of this subsection) as a full-time student, except that an individual who is a Veterans' Administration employee described in subsection (g)(1) of this section may be accepted as a participant if accepted for enrollment or enrolled (as described in clause (1) of this subsection) for study on less than a full-time but not less than a half-time basis. (Such a participant is hereinafter in this subchapter referred to as a 'part-time student'.)"; (2) in subsection (e)(l)(A)(i), by inserting "(or in a case in which an extension is granted under subsection (g)(3) of this section, the number of school years provided for as a result of such extension)" after "years"; (3) in subsection (e)(1)(B)— (A) by inserting "(to be reduced, in the case of a participant who is a part-time student, 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)" in division (iv)(I) after "Scholarship Program";

38 USC 4142.

Participant eligibility requirements.

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