§234. Health care professionals assisting during a public health emergency — Inbound Citations
42 U.S.C. § 234
Cited by 3 provisions in release 119-102.
Citations to 42 U.S.C. § 234 as a whole
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(a) The Secretary shall, to the extent permitted by, and consistent with, the requirements of applicable State law, release an individual from all or part of his service obligation under section 254m(a) of this title or under section 2341 of this title (as in effect on September 30, 1977) if the individual applies for such a release under this section and enters into a written agreement with the Secretary under which the individual agrees to engage for a period equal to the remaining period of his service obligation in the full-time private clinical practice (including service as a salaried employee in an entity directly providing health services) of his health profession—(1) in the case of an individual who received a scholarship under the Scholarship Program or a loan repayment under the Loan Repayment Program and who is performing obligated service as a member of the Corps in a health professional shortage area on the date of his application for such a release, in the health professional shortage area in which such individual is serving on such date or in the case of an individual for whom a loan payment was made under the Loan Repayment Program and who is performing obligated service as a member of the Corps in a health professional shortage area on the date of the application of the individual for such a release, in the health professional shortage area selected by the Secretary; or(2) in the case of any other individual, in a health professional shortage area (designated under section 254e of this title) selected by the Secretary.
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(2) If an individual is released under section 254n1 of this title from a service obligation under section 2341 of this title (as in effect on September 30, 1977) and if the individual does not meet the service obligation incurred under section 254n1 of this title, subsection (f) of such section 2341 of this title shall apply to such individual in lieu of paragraph (1) of this subsection.
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(ii) The provision of law referred to in clause (i) is subsection (f) of section 2341 of this title, as in effect prior to the repeal of such section by section 408(b)(1) of Public Law 94–484.