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[CITE: 38USC7440]

 
                      TITLE 38--VETERANS' BENEFITS
 
              PART V--BOARDS, ADMINISTRATIONS, AND SERVICES
 
          CHAPTER 74--VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION--PERSONNEL
 
         SUBCHAPTER III--SPECIAL PAY FOR PHYSICIANS AND DENTISTS
 
Sec. 7440. Annual report

    The Secretary shall submit to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs of 
the Senate and House of Representatives an annual report on the use of 
the authorities provided in this subchapter. The report shall be 
submitted each year as part of the budget justification documents 
submitted by the Secretary in support of the budget of the President 
submitted pursuant to section 1105 of title 31 that year. Each such 
report shall include the following:
        (1) A review of the use of the authorities provided in this 
    subchapter (including the Secretary's and Under Secretary for 
    Health's actions, findings, recommendations, and other activities 
    under this subchapter) during the preceding fiscal year and the 
    fiscal year during which the report is submitted.
        (2) The plans for the use of the authorities provided in this 
    subchapter for the next fiscal year.
        (3) A description of the amounts of special pay paid during the 
    preceding fiscal year, shown by category of pay.
        (4) A list of those geographic areas, and those scarce 
    specialties, for which special pay was paid during the preceding 
    fiscal year, those for which special pay is being paid during the 
    current fiscal year, and those for which special pay is expected to 
    be paid during the next fiscal year, together with a summary of any 
    differences among those three lists.
        (5) The number of physicians and dentists (A) who left 
    employment with the Veterans Health Administration during the 
    preceding year, (B) who changed from full-time status to part-time 
    status, (C) who changed from part-time status to full-time status, 
    as well as (D) a summary of the reasons therefor.
        (6) By specialty, the number of positions created and the number 
    of positions abolished during the preceding fiscal year and a 
    summary of the reasons for such actions.
        (7) The number of unfilled physician and dentist positions in 
    each specialty in the Veterans Health Administration, the average 
    and maximum lengths of time that such positions have been unfilled, 
    and a summary of the reasons that such positions remain unfilled 
    and, in the case of any specialty not designated as a scarce 
    specialty for purposes of special pay under this subchapter, an 
    explanation (including comparisons with other specialties that have 
    been so designated) of why the specialty has not been so designated.

(Added Pub. L. 102-40, title I, Sec. 102, May 7, 1991, 105 Stat. 198; 
amended Pub. L. 103-446, title XII, Sec. 1201(c)(6), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 
Stat. 4684.)


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions similar to those in this subchapter were contained in 
section 4118 of this title prior to the repeal of that section as part 
of the complete revision of chapter 73 of this title by Pub. L. 102-40.


                               Amendments

    1994--Par. (1). Pub. L. 103-446 substituted ``Under Secretary for 
Health's actions'' for ``Chief Medical Director's actions''.


                             Effective Date

    Section effective on first day of first pay period after July 1, 
1991, subject to transition and savings provisions and prohibition on 
retroactive agreements, see section 104 of Pub. L. 102-40, set out as a 
note under section 7431 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 7432 of this title.
