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[CITE: 38USC7424]

 
                      TITLE 38--VETERANS' BENEFITS
 
              PART V--BOARDS, ADMINISTRATIONS, AND SERVICES
 
          CHAPTER 74--VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION--PERSONNEL
 
    SUBCHAPTER II--COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AND PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION
 
Sec. 7424. Travel expenses of certain employees

    (a) The Secretary may pay the expenses (other than membership fees) 
of persons described in sections 7306 and 7401(1) of this title 
(including persons in positions described in section 7401(1) of this 
title who are appointed on a temporary full-time basis or a part-time 
basis under section 7405 of this title) who are detailed by the Under 
Secretary for Health to attend meetings of associations for the 
promotion of medical and related science.
    (b)(1) The Secretary may prescribe regulations establishing 
conditions under which officers and employees of the Administration who 
are nationally recognized principal investigators in medical research 
may be permitted to accept payment, in cash or in kind, from non-Federal 
agencies, organizations, and individuals for travel and such reasonable 
subsistence expenses as are approved by the Secretary pursuant to such 
regulations--
        (A) in connection with their attendance at meetings or in 
    performing advisory services concerned with the functions or 
    activities of the Department; or
        (B) in connection with acceptance of significant awards or with 
    activity related thereto concerned with functions or activities of 
    the Department.

    (2) Any such payment may be retained by such officers and employees 
to cover the cost of such expenses or shall be deposited to the credit 
of the appropriation from which the cost of such expenses is paid, as 
may be provided in such regulations.

(Added Pub. L. 102-40, title IV, Sec. 401(b)(3)(B), May 7, 1991, 105 
Stat. 230; amended Pub. L. 102-405, title III, Sec. 302(c)(1), Oct. 9, 
1992, 106 Stat. 1984.)


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in 
sections 4108(d) and 4113 of this title prior to the repeal of those 
sections as part of the complete revision of chapter 73 of this title by 
Pub. L. 102-40.


                               Amendments

    1992--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102-405 substituted ``Under Secretary for 
Health'' for ``Chief Medical Director''.
