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                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                    PART III--TRAINING AND EDUCATION
 
    CHAPTER 104--UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES
 
Sec. 2112. Establishment

    (a) There is hereby authorized to be established within 25 miles of 
the District of Columbia a Uniformed Services University of the Health 
Sciences (hereinafter in this chapter referred to as the 
``University''), at a site or sites to be selected by the Secretary of 
Defense, with authority to grant appropriate advanced degrees. It shall 
be so organized as to graduate not less than 100 medical students 
annually, with the first class graduating not later than September 21, 
1982.
    (b) Except as provided in subsection (a), the numbers of persons to 
be graduated from the University shall be prescribed by the Secretary of 
Defense. In so prescribing the number of persons to be graduated from 
the University, the Secretary of Defense shall institute actions 
necessary to ensure the maximum number of first-year enrollments in the 
University consistent with the academic capacity of the University and 
the needs of the uniformed services for medical personnel.
    (c) The development of the University may be by such phases as the 
Secretary of Defense may prescribe subject to the requirements of 
subsection (a).

(Added Pub. L. 92-426, Sec. 2(a), Sept. 21, 1972, 86 Stat. 713; amended 
Pub. L. 96-107, title VIII, Sec. 803(a), Nov. 9, 1979, 93 Stat. 811; 
Pub. L. 96-513, title V, Sec. 511(63), (64), Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 
2925, 2926; Pub. L. 104-106, div. A, title X, Sec. 1072(b)(1), Feb. 10, 
1996, 110 Stat. 446.)


                               Amendments

    1996--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 104-106 struck out ``, upon 
recommendation of the Board of Regents,'' before ``institute actions 
necessary''.
    1980--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 96-513 inserted ``in this chapter'' after 
``hereinafter'', and substituted ``September 21, 1982'' for ``10 years 
after the date of the enactment of this chapter''.
    1979--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 96-107 inserted provisions respecting the 
maximum number of first-year enrollments in the University.


                    Effective Date of 1980 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 96-513 effective Dec. 12, 1980, see section 
701(b)(3) of Pub. L. 96-513, set out as a note under section 101 of this 
title.


                               Short Title

    Section 1 of Pub. L. 92-426 provided: ``That this Act [enacting this 
chapter and chapter 105 of this title] may be cited as the `Uniformed 
Services Health Professions Revitalization Act of 1972'.''

                          Transfer of Functions

    For transfer of authority of Board of Regents of Uniformed Services 
University of the Health Sciences to Secretary of Defense, see section 
8091 of Pub. L. 101-511, set out as a note under section 2113 of this 
title.


  Continuation of Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

    Section 1071 of Pub. L. 104-106, as amended by Pub. L. 104-201, div. 
A, title IX, Sec. 907(b)(2), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2620, provided 
that:
    ``(a) Policy.--Congress reaffirms--
        ``(1) the prohibition set forth in subsection (a) of section 922 
    of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 
    (Public Law 103-337; 108 Stat. 2829; 10 U.S.C. 2112 note) regarding 
    closure of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences; 
    and
        ``(2) the expression of the sense of Congress set forth in 
    subsection (b) of such section regarding the budgetary commitment to 
    continuation of the University.
    ``[(b) Repealed. Pub. L. 104-201, div. A, title IX, Sec. 907(b)(2), 
Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2620. See section 2112a(b) of this title.]
    ``(c) Budgetary Commitment to Continuation.--It is the sense of 
Congress that the Secretary of Defense should budget for the operation 
of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences during 
fiscal year 1997 at a level at least equal to the level of operations 
conducted at the University during fiscal year 1995.''
    Pub. L. 103-337, div. A, title IX, Sec. 922, Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 
2829, as amended by Pub. L. 104-201, div. A, title IX, Sec. 907(b)(1), 
Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2620, provided that:
    [(a) Repealed. Pub. L. 104-201, div. A, title IX, Sec. 907(b)(1), 
Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2620. See section 2112a(a) of this title.]
    ``(b) Budgetary Commitment to Continuation.--It is the sense of 
Congress that the Secretary of Defense should budget for the ongoing 
operation of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences as 
an institution of professional education that is vital to the education 
and training each year of significant numbers of personnel of the 
uniformed services for careers as uniformed services health care 
providers.
    ``(c) GAO Evaluation.--Not later than June 1, 1995, the Comptroller 
General of the United States shall submit to Congress a detailed report 
on the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. The report 
shall include the following:
        ``(1) A comparison of the cost of obtaining physicians for the 
    Armed Forces from the University with the cost of obtaining 
    physicians from other sources.
        ``(2) An assessment of the retention rate needs of the Armed 
    Forces for physicians in relation to the respective retention rates 
    of physicians obtained from the University and physicians obtained 
    from other sources and the factors that contribute to retention 
    rates among military physicians obtained from all sources.
        ``(3) A review of the quality of the medical education provided 
    at the University with the quality of medical education provided by 
    other sources of military physicians.
        ``(4) A review of the overall issue of the special needs of 
    military medicine and how those special needs are being met by 
    physicians obtained from University and physicians obtained from 
    other sources.
        ``(5) An assessment of the extent to which the University has 
    responded to the 1990 report of the Inspector General of the 
    Department of Defense, including recommendations as to resolution of 
    any continuing issues relating to management and internal fiscal 
    controls of the University, including issues relating to the Henry 
    M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine 
    identified in the 1990 report.
        ``(6) Such other recommendations as the Comptroller General 
    considers appropriate.''


                   F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine

    Pub. L. 98-94, title XII, Sec. 1265, Sept. 24, 1983, 97 Stat. 704, 
provided that: ``The School of Medicine of the Uniformed Services 
University of the Health Sciences shall after the date of the enactment 
of this Act [Sept. 24, 1983] be known and designated as the `F. Edward 
Hebert School of Medicine'. Any reference to such school of medicine in 
any law, regulation, map, document, or other record of the United States 
shall after such date be deemed to be a reference to such school of 
medicine as the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 2173 of this title.
