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[CITE: 10USC16201]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                     Subtitle E--Reserve Components
 
  PART IV--TRAINING FOR RESERVE COMPONENTS AND EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE 
                                PROGRAMS
 
            CHAPTER 1608--HEALTH PROFESSIONS STIPEND PROGRAM
 
Sec. 16201. Financial assistance: health-care professionals in 
        reserve components
        
    (a) Establishment of Program.--For the purpose of obtaining adequate 
numbers of commissioned officers in the reserve components who are 
qualified in health professions specialties critically needed in 
wartime, the Secretary of each military department may establish and 
maintain a program to provide financial assistance under this chapter to 
persons engaged in training in such specialties. Under such a program, 
the Secretary concerned may agree to pay a financial stipend to persons 
engaged in training in certain health care specialties in return for a 
commitment to subsequent service in the Ready Reserve.
    (b) Physicians and Dentists in Critical Specialties.--(1) Under the 
stipend program under this chapter, the Secretary of the military 
department concerned may enter into an agreement with a person who--
        (A) is a graduate of a medical school or dental school;
        (B) is eligible for appointment, designation, or assignment as a 
    medical officer or dental officer in the Reserve of the armed force 
    concerned; and
        (C) is enrolled or has been accepted for enrollment in a 
    residency program for physicians or dentists in a medical or dental 
    specialty designated by the Secretary concerned as a specialty 
    critically needed by that military department in wartime.

    (2) Under the agreement--
        (A) the Secretary shall agree to pay the participant a stipend, 
    in an amount determined under subsection (e), for the period or the 
    remainder of the period of the residency program in which the 
    participant enrolls or is enrolled;
        (B) the participant shall not be eligible to receive such 
    stipend before appointment, designation, or assignment as a medical 
    officer or dental officer for service in the Ready Reserve;
        (C) the participant shall be subject to such active duty 
    requirements as may be specified in the agreement and to active duty 
    in time of war or national emergency as provided by law for members 
    of the Ready Reserve; and
        (D) the participant shall agree to serve, upon successful 
    completion of the program, two years in the Ready Reserve for each 
    year, or part thereof, for which the stipend is provided, to be 
    served in the Selected Reserve or in the Individual Ready Reserve as 
    specified in the agreement.

    (c) Registered Nurses in Critical Specialties.--(1) Under the 
stipend program under this chapter, the Secretary of the military 
department concerned may enter into an agreement with a person who--
        (A) is a registered nurse;
        (B) is eligible for appointment as--
            (i) a Reserve officer for service in the Army Reserve in the 
        Army Nurse Corps;
            (ii) a Reserve officer for service in the Naval Reserve in 
        the Navy Nurse Corps; or
            (iii) a Reserve officer for service in the Air Force Reserve 
        with a view to designation as an Air Force nurse under section 
        8067(e) of this title; and

        (C) is enrolled or has been accepted for enrollment in an 
    accredited program in nursing in a specialty designated by the 
    Secretary concerned as a specialty critically needed by that 
    military department in wartime.

    (2) Under the agreement--
        (A) the Secretary shall agree to pay the participant a stipend, 
    in an amount determined under subsection (e), for the period or the 
    remainder of the period of the nursing program in which the 
    participant enrolls or is enrolled;
        (B) the participant shall not be eligible to receive such 
    stipend before being appointed as a Reserve officer for service in 
    the Ready Reserve--
            (i) in the Nurse Corps of the Army or Navy; or
            (ii) as an Air Force nurse of the Air Force;

        (C) the participant shall be subject to such active duty 
    requirements as may be specified in the agreement and to active duty 
    in time of war or national emergency as provided by law for members 
    of the Ready Reserve; and
        (D) the participant shall agree to serve, upon successful 
    completion of the program, two years in the Ready Reserve for each 
    year, or part thereof, for which the stipend is provided, to be 
    served in the Selected Reserve or in the Individual Ready Reserve as 
    specified in the agreement.

    (d) Baccalaureate Students in Nursing or Other Health Professions.--
(1) Under the stipend program under this chapter, the Secretary of the 
military department concerned may enter into an agreement with a person 
who--
        (A) will, upon completion of the program, be eligible to be 
    appointed, designated, or assigned as a Reserve officer for duty as 
    a nurse or other health professional; and
        (B) is enrolled, or has been accepted for enrollment in the 
    third or fourth year of--
            (i) an accredited baccalaureate nursing program; or
            (ii) any other accredited baccalaureate program leading to a 
        degree in a health-care profession designated by the Secretary 
        concerned as a profession critically needed by that military 
        department in wartime.

    (2) Under the agreement--
        (A) the Secretary shall agree to pay the participant a stipend 
    of $100 per month for the period or the remainder of the period of 
    the baccalaureate program in which the participant enrolls or is 
    enrolled;
        (B) the participant shall not be eligible to receive such 
    stipend before enlistment in the Ready Reserve;
        (C) the participant shall be subject to such active duty 
    requirements as may be specified in the agreement and to active duty 
    in time of war or national emergency as provided by law for members 
    of the Ready Reserve; and
        (D) the participant shall agree to serve, upon graduation from 
    the baccalaureate program, one year in the Ready Reserve for each 
    year, or part thereof, for which the stipend is paid.

    (e) Amount of Stipend.--The amount of a stipend under an agreement 
under subsection (b) or (c) shall be--
        (1) the stipend rate in effect for participants in the Armed 
    Forces Health Professions Scholarship Program under section 2121(d) 
    of this title, if the participant has agreed to serve in the 
    Selected Reserve; or
        (2) one-half of that rate, if the participant has agreed to 
    serve in the Individual Ready Reserve.

(Added Pub. L. 100-180, div. A, title VII, Sec. 711(a)(3), Dec. 4, 1987, 
101 Stat. 1108, Sec. 2128; renumbered Sec. 16201 and amended Pub. L. 
103-337, div. A, title XVI, Sec. 1663(c)(2), (5), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 
Stat. 3007, 3008; Pub. L. 104-106, div. A, title VII, Sec. 736, Feb. 10, 
1996, 110 Stat. 383.)


                               Amendments

    1996--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 104-106, Sec. 736(1), inserted ``and 
Dentists'' in heading.
    Subsec. (b)(1)(A). Pub. L. 104-106, Sec. 736(2), inserted ``or 
dental school'' after ``medical school''.
    Subsec. (b)(1)(B). Pub. L. 104-106, Sec. 736(3), inserted ``or 
dental officer'' after ``medical officer''.
    Subsec. (b)(1)(C). Pub. L. 104-106, Sec. 736(4), substituted 
``physicians or dentists in a medical or dental specialty'' for 
``physicians in a medical specialty''.
    Subsec. (b)(2)(B). Pub. L. 104-106, Sec. 736(3), inserted ``or 
dental officer'' after ``medical officer''.
    1994--Pub. L. 103-337, Sec. 1663(c)(2), renumbered section 2128 of 
this title as this section.
    Subsecs. (a), (b)(1), (c)(1), (d)(1). Pub. L. 103-337, 
Sec. 1663(c)(5), substituted ``chapter'' for ``subchapter''.
    Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 103-337, Sec. 1663(c)(2), struck out subsec. 
(f) which defined ``Individual Ready Reserve''.


                    Effective Date of 1994 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 103-337 effective Dec. 1, 1994, except as 
otherwise provided, see section 1691 of Pub. L. 103-337, set out as an 
Effective Date note under section 10001 of this title.


              Payments for Period Prior to December 4, 1987

    Section 711(e)(2) of Pub. L. 100-180 provided that: ``An agreement 
entered into by the Secretary of a military department under section 
2128 [now 16201] of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection 
(a), may not obligate the United States to make a payment for any period 
before the date of the enactment of this Act [Dec. 4, 1987].''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 16202 of this title.
