80TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CH. 83-FEB . 28 , 1948 47 during which an officer fails without good cause to comply with a request by the Surgeon General that he submit to a medical examina- tion, and shall be terminated if such failure continues for six months." SEC. 8 . Title II of such Act is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: "TR A IN ING OF OFFICERS "SEn. 218. (a) Appropriations available for the pay and allow- ances of commissioned officers of the Service shall also be available for the pay and allowances of any such officer on active duty in the Regular Corps while attending any educational institution and, sub- ject to regulations of the President and to the limitation prescribed in such appropriations, for payment of his tuition, fees, and other necessary expenses incident to such attendance. "(b) Any officer whose tuition and fees while attending an educa- tional institution are paid pursuant to subsection (a) shall be obli- gated to reimburse the Service for such tuition and fees if he volun- tarily leaves the Service within two years after the cessation of such attendance." SEC. 9. (a) Sec. 706 of the Act of July 1, 1944 (58 Stat. 682, 713), as amended, is amended to read: "SEC. 706. In the case of any commissioned officer of the Service appointed prior to July 1, 1944, there shall be included, in determin- ing the amount of retired pay pursuant to subsection (c) (1) of section 211, and in determining whether he should or may be retired pursuant to subsection (b) of such section, noncommissioned service in the Public Health Service, as well as all commissioned service." (b) Title VII of such Act is amended by changing sections 711 and 712, and references thereto, to sections 713 and 714, respectively, and by inserting immediately after section 710 the following new sections: "A PPOINTMENTS TO HIGHER GRADES FOR MENTAL HEAITH AND HOSPITAL CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES "SEC. 711. Twenty officers may be appointed to grades in the Regu- lar Corps of the Service above that of senior assistant, but not to a grade above that of director, to assist in carrying out the purposes of this Act with respect to mental health and twenty officers may be appointed to such grades in the Regular Corps to assist in carry- ing out title VI of this Act. Officers appointed pursuant to this section in any fiscal year shall not be counted as part of the 10 per centum of the original appointments authorized to be made in such year under section 207 (b); but they shall for all other purposes be treated as though appointed pursuant to such section 207 (b). The twenty officers authorized by this section to be appointed to carry out the purposes of this Act with respect to mental health and the twenty officers so authorized to be appointed to incarr out title VI shall be reduced by the number of officers appointed under clause (A) and the number appointed under clause (B), respectively, of section 208 (b) (2) of this Act, in effect prior to the enactment of this section. "CERTAIN RETIREMENTS FOR DISABILITY "SEC. 712. An officer of the Reserve Corps of the Public Health Service who was separated from the Service or returned to inactive status by reason of a disability incurred in line of duty after Decem- ber 6,1941, and prior to July 1, 1944, and who would have been eligible for retirement by reason of such disability if section 211 of the Public 58 Stat. 683 . 42U.S.C.§§202- 218. Pay and allowances. Reimbursement to Service. 60 Stat. 1049. 42U. S. C.§230. Computation of re- tired pay. 58 Stat. 688 . 42U..0.§212 (c) (1), (b). Ante, p. 46 . 58 Stat. 714; 60 Stat. 1049. 42U.S.C.§201 note. 60 Stat. 1041. 42U. .C.§§291- 291m. Ante, p. 40 . 60 Stat. 422 , 1049. 42U.S.C.§209 ()) (2). 62 STAT.]
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