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H.R. 4150 — what changed

Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency Medical Staffing Recruitment and Retention Act

From Introduced in House to Reported in House. 1 section amended between Introduced in House and Reported in House.

Sec. 2 Modification of hours of employment for physicians and physician assistants employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs

Section 7423(a) of title 38, United States Code, is amended—

(1)
by striking “(a) The hours” and inserting “(a)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the hours”; and
(2)
by adding at the end the following new paragraph:

changed “(2) The Secretary may modify the hours of employment for a physician or physician assistant appointed in the Administration under any provision of this chapter on a full-time basis to be more than or less than 80 hours in a biweekly pay period if the total hours of employment for such employee in a calendar year does not exceed 2,080 hours.”hours. No physician or physician assistant may accrue overtime by reason of modified hours of employment authorized under this paragraph.”