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S. Rept. 1693, 87th Cong., 2d Sess. (1962), reprinted at
1962 U.S.C.C.A.N. 2101, is the report of the Committee on Labor
and Welfare that accompanied H.R. 8992, 87th Cong., 2d Sess.
(1962), which, when enacted, became Pub. L. 87-574, and added 38
U.S.C. section 618. The report states that the bill (H.R. 8992)
was suggested and formally transmitted to the Congress by the VA.
S. Rept. 1693, supra. The report further states that the bill
relates entirely to certain administrative provisions affecting
the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the VA, and it
describes the provision that would become 38 U.S.C. section 618
(Supp. V, 1962) as “specifically [authorizing] the use of the
services of patients and members in Veterans’ Administration
hospitals and domiciliaries, for therapeutic and rehabilitative
purposes, without conferring an employment status.” Id.
A communication from J.S. Gleason, Jr., Administrator of the
VA, transmitting to the Senate a draft of a bill that became H.R.
8992, is contained in the report. Id. In pertinent part,
Administrator Gleason states:
There is an inconsistency between Federal employee
status, with its statutory and regulatory requirements,
and the basic concept of the member-employment program
as a means toward the medical, psychological, and
social rehabilitation of the veteran. This
inconsistency is highlighted by the fact that
participants in the program are not eligible for such
Federal employment benefits as retirement, insurance,
or unemployment compensation, and yet they have been
held to come within the purview of certain other
statutory employee programs.
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