---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 5757"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "5757"
heading: "Payment of expenses to obtain professional credentials"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/5757"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart D — Pay and Allowances"
  - "Chapter 57 — Travel, Transportation, and Subsistence"
  - "Subchapter IV — Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §5757. Payment of expenses to obtain professional credentials

- (a) An [agency](/usc/5/500.md?p=a-1) may use appropriated funds or funds otherwise available to the [agency](/usc/5/500.md?p=a-1) to pay for—
  - (1) expenses for [employees](/usc/5/5361.md?p=1) to obtain professional credentials, including expenses for professional accreditation, State-imposed and professional licenses, and professional certification; and
  - (2) examinations to obtain such credentials.
- (b) The [authority](/usc/5/7103.md?p=a-6) under [subsection (a)](#a) may not be exercised on behalf of any [employee](/usc/5/5361.md?p=1) occupying or seeking to qualify for appointment to any [position](/usc/5/5531.md?p=2) that is excepted from the competitive [service](/usc/5/8331.md?p=12) because of the confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character of the [position](/usc/5/5531.md?p=2).

## Footnotes

[^1]: Another section 5757 is set out after this section.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 107–107, div. A, title XI, § 1112(a), Dec. 28, 2001, 115 Stat. 1238.)