---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2128"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2128"
heading: "Accession bonus for members of the program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2128"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part III — Training and Education"
  - "Chapter 105 — Armed Forces Health Professions Financial Assistance Programs"
  - "Subchapter I — Health Professions Scholarship and Financial Assistance Program for Active Service"
---

# §2128. Accession bonus for members of the program

- (a) **Availability of Bonus.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense may offer a [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) who enters into an agreement under [section 2122(a)(2) of this title](/usc/10/2122.md?p=a-2) an accession bonus of not more than $100,000 as part of the agreement.
- (b) **Relation to Other Payments.—** An accession bonus paid a [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) under this section is in addition to any other amounts payable to the [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) under this subchapter.
- (c) **Repayment.—** A [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) who receives an accession bonus under this section, but fails to comply with the agreement under [section 2122(a)(2) of this title](/usc/10/2122.md?p=a-2) or to commence or complete the [active duty](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-1) obligation imposed by [section 2123 of this title](/usc/10/2123.md), shall be subject to the repayment provisions of section 303a(e) or 373 of title 37.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 110–181, div. A, title VI, § 623(a), Jan. 28, 2008, 122 Stat. 152; amended Pub. L. 115–91, div. A, title VI, § 618(a)(1)(F), Dec. 12, 2017, 131 Stat. 1426; Pub. L. 118–159, div. A, title VI, § 612, Dec. 23, 2024, 138 Stat. 1933.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Prior sections 2128 to 2130 were renumbered sections 16201 to 16203 of this title, respectively.

### Amendments

2024—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 118–159 substituted “$100,000” for “$20,000”.

2017—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 115–91 inserted “or 373” before “of title 37”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Pub. L. 110–181, div. A, title VI, § 623(c), Jan. 28, 2008, 122 Stat. 152, provided that: “The amendment made by subsection (a) [enacting this section] shall apply with respect to agreements entered into under section 2122(a)(2) of title 10, United States Code, on or after the date of the enactment of this Act [Jan. 28, 2008].”