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[CITE: 42USC288-1]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
              SUBCHAPTER III--NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES
 
                       Part G--Awards and Training
 
Sec. 288-1. Loan repayment program for research with respect to 
        acquired immune deficiency syndrome
        

(a) In general

    The Secretary shall carry out a program of entering into agreements 
with appropriately qualified health professionals under which such 
health professionals agree to conduct, as employees of the National 
Institutes of Health, research with respect to acquired immune 
deficiency syndrome in consideration of the Federal Government agreeing 
to repay, for each year of such service, not more than $35,000 of the 
principal and interest of the educational loans of such health 
professionals.

(b) Applicability of certain provisions

    With respect to the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment 
Program established in subpart III of part D of subchapter II of this 
chapter, the provisions of such subpart shall, except as inconsistent 
with subsection (a) of this section, apply to the program established in 
such subsection (a) of this section in the same manner and to the same 
extent as such provisions apply to the National Health Service Corps 
Loan Repayment Program established in such subpart.

(c) Authorization of appropriations

    For the purpose of carrying out this section, there are authorized 
to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal 
years 1994 through 2001.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, Sec. 487A, as added Pub. L. 100-607, 
title VI, Sec. 634(a), Nov. 4, 1988, 102 Stat. 3148; amended Pub. L. 
103-43, title XVI, Sec. 1611(a), June 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 181; Pub. L. 
105-392, title IV, Sec. 410(a), Nov. 13, 1998, 112 Stat. 3589.)


                               Amendments

    1998--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 105-392, Sec. 410(a)(1), substituted 
``$35,000'' for ``$20,000''.
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 105-392, Sec. 410(a)(2), substituted ``2001'' 
for ``1996''.
    1993--Pub. L. 103-43 amended section generally, in subsec. (a) 
redesignating former par. (1) as entire subsec., striking out provisions 
setting a deadline for implementation of the program and former par. (2) 
containing a limitation that the health professional have a substantial 
amount of educational loans relative to income and not have been 
employed at the National Institutes of Health during the 1-year period 
preceding Nov. 4, 1988, reenacting subsec. (b) without change, and in 
subsec. (c) redesignating former par. (1) as entire subsec., 
substituting authorization of appropriations for fiscal years 1994 
through 1996 for authorization of appropriations for fiscal years 1989 
through 1991, and striking out former par. (2) relating to continued 
availability of appropriated amounts.


                    Effective Date of 1993 Amendment

    Section 1611(b) of Pub. L. 103-43 provided that: ``The amendment 
made by subsection (a) [amending this section] does not apply to any 
agreement entered into under section 487A of the Public Health Service 
Act [this section] before the date of the enactment of this Act [June 
10, 1993]. Each such agreement continues to be subject to the terms of 
the agreement in effect on the day before such date.''
