Sec. 101. Payment of licensure exam costs for recipients of scholarships from Department of Veterans Affairs
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The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall pay the costs of any licensing examinations and certifications required by the Secretary for any current recipient of a covered health professional scholarship from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Subsection
(a)shall apply to the payment of costs for— the United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1, Step 2, and Step 3; the National Council Licensure Exam; the National Board Dental Examination; the National Board Dental Hygiene Examination; the Dental Licensure Objective Structured Clinical Examination and Integrated National Board Dental Examination; the National Licensing Exams for Registered Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, and Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists; the American Podiatric Medical Licensing Exam; the National Board of Examiners in Optometry Exam; the Physician Assistant National Certification Exam; the Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology; the Academy for Certification of Vision Rehabilitation and Education Professionals certification examinations; the Association of Social Workers Boards Exam; and such other licensing examinations and certifications as the Secretary considers appropriate. Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, and not less frequently than annually thereafter, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the House of Representatives a report on the implementation of this section that includes the following data for each State and territory of the United States for the one-year period preceding the date of the report: Utilization by the Secretary of the requirement under subsection
(a)broken down by position and career type. Number of times each examination or certification described in subsection
(b)was paid for by the Department and total funds expended by the Department for each such examination or certification. In this section, the term covered health professional scholarship means— the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Professional Scholarship Program under subchapter II of chapter 76 of title 38, United States Code; the Department of Veterans Affairs Employee Incentive Scholarship Program under subchapter VI of such chapter, including— the National Nursing Education Initiative; and the VA National Education for Employees Program; the Department of Veterans Affairs Readjustment Counseling Service Scholarship Program under subchapter IX of such chapter; the Visual Impairment and Orientation and Mobility Professionals Scholarship Program under chapter 75 of such title; the Veterans Healing Veterans Medical Access and Scholarship Program under section 304 of the VA MISSION Act of 2018 ( Public Law 115–182 ; 38 U.S.C. 7601 note); the Physician Assistant Education and Training Pilot Program for Former Members of The Armed Forces under section 246 of division J of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018 ( Public Law 115–141 ; 38 U.S.C. 7601 note); and such other programs as the Secretary considers appropriate.
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Sec. 101
Payment of licensure exam costs for recipients of scholarships from Department of Veterans Affairs
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