---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 4745"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "4745"
heading: "Government Service Fellowships"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/4745"
units:
  - "Chapter 62 — Intergovernmental Personnel Program"
  - "Subchapter III — Training and Developing State and Local Employees"
---

# §4745. Government Service Fellowships

- (a) **Diverse payments—** The [Office](/usc/42/4762.md?p=1) is authorized to make grants to [State](/usc/42/4762.md?p=3) and general [local governments](/usc/42/4762.md?p=4) to support programs approved by the [Office](/usc/42/4762.md?p=1) for providing Government Service Fellowships for [State](/usc/42/4762.md?p=3) and [local government](/usc/42/4762.md?p=4) personnel. The grants may cover—
  - (1) the necessary costs of the fellowship recipient’s books, travel, and transportation, and such related expenses as may be authorized by the [Office](/usc/42/4762.md?p=1);
  - (2) reimbursement to the [State](/usc/42/4762.md?p=3) or [local government](/usc/42/4762.md?p=4) for not to exceed one-fourth of the salary of each fellow during the period of the fellowship; and
  - (3) payment to the educational institutions involved of such amounts as the [Office](/usc/42/4762.md?p=1) determines to be consistent with prevailing [practices](/usc/42/17061.md?p=19) under comparable federally supported programs for each fellow, less any amount charged the fellow for tuition and nonrefundable fees and deposits.
- (b) **Period of fellowships; eligibility criteria—** Fellowships awarded under this section may not exceed two years of full-time graduate-level study for professional, administrative, and technical employees. The regulations of the [Office](/usc/42/4762.md?p=1) shall include eligibility criteria for the selection of fellowship recipients by [State](/usc/42/4762.md?p=3) and [local governments](/usc/42/4762.md?p=4).
- (c) **Selection of fellows; continuation of salary and employment benefits; public service plans upon completion of study: outline of plans in application for grant—** The [State](/usc/42/4762.md?p=3) or [local government](/usc/42/4762.md?p=4) concerned shall—
  - (1) select the individual recipients of the fellowships;
  - (2) during the period of the fellowship, continue the full salary of the recipient and normal employment benefits such as credit for seniority, leave accrual, retirement, and insurance; and
  - (3) make appropriate plans for the utilization and continuation in public service of employees completing fellowships and outline such plans in the application for the grant.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–648, title III, § 305, Jan. 5, 1971, 84 Stat. 1919; 1978 Reorg. Plan No. 2, § 102, eff. Jan. 1, 1979, 43 F.R. 36037, 92 Stat. 3783.)

## Notes

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

“Office”, meaning Office of Personnel Management, substituted for “Commission”, meaning Civil Service Commission, in subsecs. (a) and (b) pursuant to Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1978, § 102, 43 F.R. 36037, 92 Stat. 3783, set out under section 1101 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, which transferred functions vested by statute in Civil Service Commission and Chairman thereof to Director of Office of Personnel Management (except as otherwise specified), effective Jan. 1, 1979, as provided by section 1–102 of Ex. Ord. No. 12107, Dec. 28, 1978, 44 F.R. 1055, set out under section 1101 of Title 5.