Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Physicist Pay Cap Relief Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 3489 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3489 To amend title 38, United States Code, to codify the requirements for appointment, qualifications, and pay for therapeutic and diagnostic medical physicists of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 19, 2025 Mrs. Cherfilus-McCormick (for herself and Mr. Ciscomani) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To amend title 38, United States Code, to codify the requirements for appointment, qualifications, and pay for therapeutic and diagnostic medical physicists of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Physicist Pay Cap Relief Act''. SEC. 2. TREATMENT OF THERAPEUTIC MEDICAL PHYSICISTS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS. (a) Appointment.--Section 7401(1) of title 38, United States Code, is amended by inserting ``therapeutic medical physicists, diagnostic medical physicists,'' after ``physician assistants,''. (b) Qualifications.--Section 7402(b) of such title is amended-- (1) by redesignating paragraph (14) as paragraph (16); and (2) by inserting after paragraph (13) the following new paragraphs: ``(14) Therapeutic Medical Physicist.--To be eligible to be appointed to a therapeutic medical physicist position, a person must-- ``(A) have completed a post-graduate clinical training program in therapeutic medical physics satisfactory to the Secretary; and ``(B) be board certified in the field of therapeutic medical physics by a certifying