---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 7635"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "7635"
heading: "Service in other agencies"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/7635"
units:
  - "Part V — Boards, Administrations, and Services"
  - "Chapter 76 — Health Professionals Educational Assistance Program"
  - "Subchapter IV — Administrative Matters"
---

# §7635. Service in other agencies

- (a) The [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1), with the consent of the participant or individual involved and the consent of the head of the [department](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) or agency involved, may permit—
  - (1) a period of obligated service required under this chapter to be performed in the [Veterans](/usc/38/101.md?p=2) Health Administration to be performed in another Federal [department](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) or agency or in the [Armed Forces](/usc/38/101.md?p=10) in lieu of performance of such service in the [Veterans](/usc/38/101.md?p=2) Health Administration; and
  - (2) a period of obligated service required to be performed in another Federal [department](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) or agency or in the [Armed Forces](/usc/38/101.md?p=10) under another Federal health personnel educational assistance program to be performed in the [Veterans](/usc/38/101.md?p=2) Health Administration.
- (b) This section shall be carried out in cooperation with the heads of other appropriate [departments](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) and agencies.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 100–322, title II, § 216(b), May 20, 1988, 102 Stat. 529, § 4335; renumbered § 7635, Pub. L. 102–40, title IV, § 402(b)(1), May 7, 1991, 105 Stat. 238; amended Pub. L. 102–83, § 4(b)(1), (2)(E), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 404, 405; Pub. L. 103–446, title XII, § 1201(b)(1), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4682.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103–446 substituted “Veterans Health Administration” for “Department of Medicine and Surgery” wherever appearing.

1991—Pub. L. 102–40 renumbered section 4335 of this title as this section.

Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102–83 substituted “Secretary” for “Administrator” in introductory provisions.