---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 4509"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "4509"
heading: "Fellowship conditions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/4509"
units:
  - "Chapter 57 — James Madison Memorial Fellowship Program"
---

# §4509. Fellowship conditions

- (a) A student awarded a Madison Fellowship shall continue to receive payments only during such periods as the [Foundation](/usc/20/4514.md?p=2) finds that the student is maintaining satisfactory progress in an approved program of study or research. Recipients of junior fellowships shall devote essentially full time to their program of study.
- (b) The [Foundation](/usc/20/4514.md?p=2) is authorized to require reports from any fellowship recipient containing such information, in such form, and to be filed at such times as the [Foundation](/usc/20/4514.md?p=2) determines to be necessary. Such reports shall be accompanied by a certificate from an appropriate official at the [institution of higher education](/usc/20/4514.md?p=3), approved by the [Foundation](/usc/20/4514.md?p=2), stating that such student is making satisfactory progress in a program of study or research, with such exceptions as the [Foundation](/usc/20/4514.md?p=2) may establish.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 99–500, § 101(b) [title VIII, § 810], Oct. 18, 1986, 100 Stat. 1783–39, 1783–79, and Pub. L. 99–591, § 101(b) [title VIII, § 810], Oct. 30, 1986, 100 Stat. 3341–39, 3341–79.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Pub. L. 99–591 is a corrected version of Pub. L. 99–500.