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[USC02] 5 USC 5371: Health care positions
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5 USC 5371: Health care positions Text contains those laws in effect on November 14, 2019
§5371. Health care positions
(a) For the purposes of this section, "health care" means direct patient-care services or services incident to direct patient-care services.
(b) The Office of Personnel Management may, with respect to any employee described in subsection (c), provide that 1 or more provisions of chapter 74 of title 38 shall apply-
(1) in lieu of any provision of chapter 51 or 61, subchapter V of chapter 55, or any other provision of this chapter; or
(2) notwithstanding any lack of specific authority for a matter with respect to which chapter 51 or 61, subchapter V of chapter 55, or this chapter, relates.
(c) Authority under subsection (b) may be exercised with respect to any employee holding a position-
(1) to which chapter 51 applies, excluding any Senior Executive Service position and any position in the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Drug Enforcement Administration Senior Executive Service; and
(2) which involves health care responsibilities.
( Pub. L. 89–554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 473 , §5361; renumbered §5371 and amended Pub. L. 95–454, title VIII, §801(a)(3)(A)(ii), title IX, §906(a)(2), Oct. 13, 1978, 92 Stat. 1221 , 1224; Pub. L. 101–509, title V, §529 [title II, §205(A)], Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1427 , 1456; Pub. L. 102–378, §2(31), Oct. 2, 1992, 106 Stat. 1350 .)
5 U.S.C. 1162(b). Oct. 4, 1961, Pub. L. 87–367, §202 "Sec. 2(b)", 75 Stat. 790 .
Oct. 11, 1962, Pub. L. 87–793, §1001(a)(1), 76 Stat. 863 .
The authority to fix rates of pay is added on authority of former section 1161, which is carried into section 3104.
For repeal of the Act of Aug. 1, 1947, ch. 433, 61 Stat. 715 , as amended, see revision note for section 3104.
1992-Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 102–378 substituted "chapter 74" for "chapter 73" in introductory provisions and inserted "subchapter V of chapter 55," after "61," in pars. (1) and (2).
1990-Pub. L. 101–509 amended section generally, substituting designated provisions directing that Office of Personnel Management may provide that chapter 73 of title 38 provisions apply to certain health care professionals for undesignated text authorizing agency heads to fix pay rates for scientific and professional positions at between GS–16 and GS–18 rates.
1978-Pub. L. 95–454, §906(a)(2), substituted "Office of Personnel Management" for "Civil Service Commission".