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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 303a. Special pay: health professionals; general provisions
(a) The Secretary of Defense, with respect to the Army, Navy, and
Air Force, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, with
respect to the Public Health Service, shall prescribe regulations
for the administration of sections 301d, 302 through 302j, and 303
of this title.
(b)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) or as otherwise
provided under a provision of this chapter, a commissioned officer
in the Regular or Reserve Corps of the Public Health Service is
entitled to special pay under a provision of this chapter in the
same amounts, and under the same terms and conditions, as a
commissioned officer of the armed forces is entitled to special pay
under that provision.
(2) A commissioned medical officer in the Regular or Reserve
Corps of the Public Health Service (other than an officer serving
in the Indian Health Service) may not receive additional special
pay under section 302(a)(4) of this title for any period during
which the officer is providing obligated service under the
following provisions of law:
(A) Section 338B of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C.
254l-1).
(B) Section 225(e) of the Public Health Service Act, as that
section was in effect before October 1, 1977.
(C) Section 752 of the Public Health Service Act, as that
section was in effect between October 1, 1977, and August 13,
1981.
(c) Special pay authorized under sections 301d, 302 through 302j,
and 303 of this title is in addition to any other pay or allowance
to which an officer is entitled. The amount of special pay to which
an officer is entitled under any of such sections may not be
included in computing the amount of any increase in pay authorized
by any other provision of this title or in computing retired pay,
separation pay, severance pay, or readjustment pay.
(d) The Secretary of Defense shall conduct a review every two
years of the special pay for health professionals authorized by
sections 301d, 302 through 302j, and 303 of this title.
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