42 USC § 254v - Clarification regarding service in schools and other community-based settings

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identifier: "/us/usc/t42/s254v"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "42 USC § 254v - Clarification regarding service in schools and other community-based settings"
title_number: 42
title_name: "THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE"
section_number: "254v"
section_name: "Clarification regarding service in schools and other community-based settings"
chapter_number: 6
chapter_name: "PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE"
subchapter_number: "II"
subchapter_name: "GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES"
part_number: "D"
part_name: "Primary Health Care"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, § 338N, as added Pub. L. 115–271, title VII, § 7072, Oct. 24, 2018, 132 Stat. 4030.)"
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# § 254v. Clarification regarding service in schools and other community-based settings

**(a)** **Schools and community-based settings** section 254f of this title

An entity to which a participant in the Scholarship Program or the Loan Repayment Program (referred to in this section as a “participant”) is assigned under  may direct such participant to provide service as a behavioral or mental health professional at a school or other community-based setting located in a health professional shortage area.

**(b)** **Obligated service**

**(1)** **In general** Any service described in subsection (a) that a participant provides may count towards such participant’s completion of any obligated service requirements under the Scholarship Program or the Loan Repayment Program, subject to any limitation imposed under paragraph (2).

**(2)** **Limitation** The Secretary may impose a limitation on the number of hours of service described in subsection (a) that a participant may credit towards completing obligated service requirements, provided that the limitation allows a member to credit service described in subsection (a) for not less than 50 percent of the total hours required to complete such obligated service requirements.

**(c)** **Rule of construction** The authorization under subsection (a) shall be notwithstanding any other provision of this subpart or subpart II.

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**Source Credit**: (July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, § 338N, as added Pub. L. 115–271, title VII, § 7072, Oct. 24, 2018, 132 Stat. 4030.)