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[CITE: 38USC7623]

 
                      TITLE 38--VETERANS' BENEFITS
 
              PART V--BOARDS, ADMINISTRATIONS, AND SERVICES
 
     CHAPTER 76--HEALTH PROFESSIONALS EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
 
              SUBCHAPTER III--TUITION REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM
 
Sec. 7623. Obligated service

    (a) Each participant in the Tuition Reimbursement Program shall 
provide service in the full-time clinical practice of such participant's 
profession as a full-time employee of the Department for the period of 
obligated service provided in the agreement of such participant entered 
into under section 7603 of this title.
    (b) A participant who on such participant's course completion date 
is a full-time employee in the Veterans Health Administration shall be 
considered to have begun serving such participant's period of obligated 
service on the course completion date.
    (c) Except in the case of a participant whose tuition was paid 
pursuant to section 7622(e) of this title, if a participant in the 
Tuition Reimbursement Program fails to successfully complete a course, 
no reimbursement will be provided and no period of obligated service 
will be incurred.
    (d) In the case of a participant whose tuition was paid pursuant to 
section 7622(e) of this title and who fails to complete the course 
involved, the period of obligation shall be of the same duration as it 
would have been if the participant had successfully completed the course 
and the course completion date shall be considered to be the date on 
which the participant's failure becomes an established fact.
    (e) For the purposes of this section, the term ``course completion 
date'' means the date on which a participant in the Tuition 
Reimbursement Program completes such participant's course of training 
under the program.

(Added Pub. L. 100-322, title II, Sec. 216(b), May 20, 1988, 102 Stat. 
526, Sec. 4323; amended Pub. L. 100-687, div. B, title XV, 
Sec. 1503(a)(3), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4134; renumbered Sec. 7623 and 
amended Pub. L. 102-40, title IV, Sec. 402(b)(1), (d)(1), May 7, 1991, 
105 Stat. 238, 239; Pub. L. 102-83, Sec. 4(a)(3), (4), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 
Stat. 404; Pub. L. 103-446, title XII, Sec. 1201(b)(1), Nov. 2, 1994, 
108 Stat. 4682.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 103-446 substituted ``Veterans Health 
Administration'' for ``Department of Medicine and Surgery''.
    1991--Pub. L. 102-40, Sec. 402(b)(1), renumbered section 4323 of 
this title as this section.
    Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102-83 substituted ``Department'' for 
``Veterans' Administration''.
    Pub. L. 102-40, Sec. 402(d)(1), substituted ``7603'' for ``4303''.
    Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 102-40, Sec. 402(d)(1), substituted 
``7622(e)'' for ``4322(e)''.
    1988--Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 100-687 substituted ``4322(e)'' for 
``4322(f)''.
