Under subchapter V of chapter 53 of title 5, United States Code (U.S.C. 5351-5356), agencies may pay stipends and provide certain services to certain student-employees assigned or attached to hospitals, clinics, or medical or dental laboratories operated by agencies. Student-employees covered under the program are excluded from certain provisions of law relating to classification, General Schedule pay, premium pay, leave, and hours of duty. This subpart authorizes the coverage of certain positions under this program and establishes maximum stipends for student-employees in the program.
In addition to the student-employees specified in 5 U.S.C. 5351(2)(A), the following student-employees are covered under this program, provided they are assigned or attached principally for training purposes to a hospital, clinic, or medical or dental laboratory operated by an agency:
(1) Any student-employee whom an agency finds is properly covered under this program, provided that the student-employee is a registered student at an accredited academic institution and that the assignment or attachment for training purposes to the hospital, clinic, or medical or dental laboratory is a part of a medical or dental training program accredited by an appropriate accrediting body;
(2) Any student-employee whom an agency finds is properly covered under this program, provided that the student-employee, during the period of assignment or attachment to the hospital, clinic, or medical or dental laboratory, will receive experience or training that is required to obtain a certificate or license in a medical or dental field; or
(3) Any student-employee not otherwise covered under this program whom the Office of Personnel Management approves for coverage as a student-employee under this program.
[44 FR 54693, Sept. 21, 1979, as amended at 64 FR 68931, Dec. 9, 1999]
(a) Except as authorized under paragraph (b) or (c) of this section, stipends are to be set by the agency, subject to the maximum stipends prescribed in the following table:
Maximum Stipends Prescribed
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| Academic level of approved training program
| Maximums by grade and step
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| L-A | Below high school graduation | GS-1-1 (minus 3 steps).
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| L-1 | First year college undergraduate | GS-2-1 (minus 3 steps).
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| L-2 | Second year college undergraduate | GS-3-1 (minus 3 steps).
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| L-3 | Third year college undergraduate | GS-3-3 (minus 3 steps).
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| L-4 | Fourth year college undergraduate | GS-4-2 (minus 3 steps).
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| L-5 | First year postgraduate predoctoral | GS-5-1 (minus 3 steps).
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| L-6 | Second year postgraduate predoctoral | GS-7-1 (minus 3 steps).
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| L-6 | Third year medical school | GS-7-1 (minus 3 steps).
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| L-7 | Third year postgraduate predoctoral | GS-9-1 (minus 3 steps).
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| L-7 | Fourth year medical school | GS-9-1 (minus 3 steps).
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| L-8 | Fourth year postgraduate predoctoral | GS-10-1 (minus 3 steps).
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| L-8 | Medical or dental internship | GS-10-1 (minus 3 steps).
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| L-9 | Fifth year postgraduate w/o doctorate | GS-11-1 (minus 3 steps).
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| L-9 | First year postgraduate (Ph. D.) | GS-11-1 (minus 3 steps).
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| L-9 | First year medical or dental residency | GS-11-1 (minus 3 steps).
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| L-10 | Second year postdoctoral (Ph. D.) | GS-12-1 (minus 3 steps).
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| L-10 | Second year medical or dental residency | GS-12-1 (minus 3 steps).
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| L-11 | Third year medical or dental residency | GS-12-4 (minus 3 steps).
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| L-12 | Fourth year medical or dental residency | GS-13-1 (minus 3 steps).
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| L-13 | Fifth year medical residency | GS-14-1 (minus 3 steps).
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(b) An agency may pay a student-employee a stipend in excess of the amount prescribed under paragraph (a) of this section only if the Office of Personnel Management has determined that a higher maximum stipend is warranted for the student-employee.
(c) Maximum stipends for positions in the Public Health Service in which duty requires intimate contact with persons afflicted with leprosy are increased above the rates prescribed in paragraph (a) of this section to the same extent that additional pay is provided by Public Health Service Regulations (42 CFR 22.1) for employees subject to the General Schedule (part 531 of this chapter).
(d) Overtime pay, maintenance allowances, and other payments in money or kind for a student-employee must be considered as part of the student-employee's stipend for the purposes of this section, and therefore, may not be used to cause the stipend to exceed the maximum stipend established under this section.
(e) A trainee at a non-Federal hospital, clinic, or medical or dental laboratory who is assigned to a Federal hospital, clinic, or medical or dental laboratory as an affiliate for a part of his or her training may not receive a stipend from the Federal agency other than any maintenance allowance that is provided.
The provisions of this subpart do not terminate any authorization approved by the Civil Service Commission or the Office of Personnel Management before February 15, 1979, and such authorizations remain in effect until modified or terminated by an agency or the Office of Personnel Management in accordance with the provisions of this subpart.