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The proposed amendment would avoid confusion and
controversy which has sometimes arisen in connection
with the application to such persons of various
statutes, regulations, or bills relating to Federal
employees. It would enable the Veterans’
Administration to prescribe the conditions and benefits
which will best serve the therapeutic and
rehabilitative objectives of the program.
S. Rept. 1693, supra, 1962 U.S.C.C.A.N. at 2103 (emphasis added).
2. Veterans Omnibus Health Care Act of 1976
Veterans Omnibus Health Care Act of 1976, Pub. L. 94-581,
section 105(a)(3), 90 Stat. 2845, added to section 618 of title
38 provisions substantially the same as those in subsections (b)
through (e) of section 1718. S. Rept. 94-1206 (Part I) (1976),
reprinted in 1976 U.S.C.C.A.N. 6355, is a portion of the report
of the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs that accompanied S. 2908,
94th Cong., 2d Sess. (1976), which, substantially in the form of
H.R. 2735, 94th Cong., 2d Sess. (1976), was enacted as Pub. L.
94-581.
The report states that among the purposes of S. 2908 is the
clarification of the VA’s authority to enter into arrangements
with private industry and nonprofit corporations to supply work
projects for patient workers and to establish a revolving fund to
receive and disburse funds in connection with such work. S.
Rept. 94-1206 (Part I), supra at 57, 1976 U.S.C.C.A.N. at 6357.
The report refers to such work as being part of the VA’s
compensated work-therapy program and describes that program as
being carried out under the VA’s medical care authority and
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