An Act to amend title 48 of the United States Code to eliminate certain requirements for the furnishing of nursing home care in the case of veterans hospitalized by the Veterans Administration in Alaska or Hawaii
PL 90-612 (H.R.3593), enacted 10/21/1968

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PUBLIC LAW 90-612-OCT. 21, 1968 
[82 STAT. 
October 21, 1968 
[H. R. 3593] 
Public Law 90-612 
AN ACT 
To amend title 38 of the United States Code to provide nursing home care and 
contract hospitalization for certain veterans living in Alaska and Hawaii, and 
for other purposes. 
Veterans. 
Nursing home 
care in Alaska 
and Hawaii. 
78 Stat. 500. 
72 Stat. 1141. 
Termination of 
authority. 
79 Stat. 1034. 
41 u s e 351. 
80 Stat. 838. 
29 u s e 206. 
Federal employ-
ees, limitation. 
Exception. 
Ante, p. 270. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America In Congress assembled. That subsection (a) 
of section 620 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at 
the end thereof the folloAving new sentence: "Any veteran who is 
furnished care by the Administrator in a hospital in Alaska or Hawaii 
may be furnished nursing home care under the provisions of this 
section even if such hospital is not under the direct and exclusive 
jurisdiction of the Administrator.". 
SEC._2. Clause (iii) of section 601(4) (C) of title 38, United States 
Code, is amended to read as follows: "(iii) for veterans of any war 
in a State, Territory, Commonwealth, or possession of the LTnited 
States not contiguous to the forty-eight contiguous States, except that 
the annually determined average hospital patient load per thousand 
veteran population hospitalized at Veterans' Administration expense 
in Government and private facilities in each such noncontiguous State 
may not exceed the average patient load per thousand veteran popula-
tion hospitalized by the Veterans' Administration within the forty-
eight contiguous States; but authority under this clause (iii) shall 
expire on December 31, 1978." 
SEC. 3. Section 620 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: 
"(c) In applying the provisions of section 2(b) (1) of the Service 
Contract Act of 1965 with respect to any contract entered into under 
this section to provide nursing home care of veterans, the payment 
of wages not less than those specified in section 6(b) of the Fair Labor 
Standards Act of 1938, as amended, shall be deemed to constitute 
compliance with such provisions." 
SEC. 4. (a) The provisions of section 201 of the Revenue and Expend-
iture Control Act of 1968 shall not apply to employees of the Veter-
ans' Administration in any month in which the number of such 
employees does not exceed the number of employees employed by 
such Administration on June 30, 1966. 
, (b) In any month in which section 201 of the Revenue and Expend-
iture Control Act of 1968 does not apply to the Veterans' Adminis-
tration by reason of the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, 
the employees of the Veterans' Administration shall not be taken into 
account in applying the provisions of such section 201 to other 
departments and agencies of the executive branch. 
Approved October 21, 1968. 
Public Law 90-613 
October 21, 1968 
A N A C T 
[H. R. 8364] 
To amend the joint resolution of March 24, 1937, to provide for the termination 
of the interest of the United States in certain real property in Allen Park, 
Michigan. 
Allen Park, 
Mich. 
Land con-
veyance. 
Be It enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America 
in Congress a^sembled^ That the joint 
resolution of March 24, 1937 (50 Stat. 54), is amended by adding at 
the end the following new section: 
" S E C 2. (a) Subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of this 
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section, the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, upon determining 
that approximately one acre out of said triangular tract is no longer 
to be used for the purpose and on the condition for which the same 
was donated to the United States, is authorized to execute a quitclaim 
deed to the heirs of the grantors conveying such one acre, the heirs 
of the grantors having expressed a desire to give said one acre to the 
city of Allen Park for a fire station site. Such quitclaim deed shall 
also contain covenants by said heirs that the one-acre parcel shall be 
conveyed by them to the city of Allen Park for use as a site for a fire 
station and shall be used in a manner that will not, in the judgment 
of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, or his designate, interfere 
with the care and treatment of patients in the nearby Veterans' 
Administration Hospital, Dearborn, Michigan; a condition that if it 
ever ceases to be so used, the title to said property shall immediately 
revert to the United States for the use of the Veterans' Administra-
tion; a provision that such covenants and conditions shall run with 
the land and be binding on the grantees, their heirs, successors, 
grantees and assigns; and such instrument shall further contain such 
additional terms and conditions as the Administrator shall deem 
appropriate to protect the interests of the United States. 
"(b) The exact legal description of said one acre (located at the 
corner of Outer Drive and Snow Road) shall be determined by the 
Administrator. The Administrator shall not execute and deliver the 
quitclaim deed authorized in subsection (a) of this section until said 
heirs shall have, at their own expense, caused the property to be sur-
veyed and made arrangements, satisfactory to the Administrator, for 
the erection of a boundary line fence, nor until said heirs shall have 
executed and delivered to the United States a recordable instrument, 
in form satisfactory to the Attorney General, releasing to the United 
States all of their interests in such one-acre parcel and also releasing 
any right of reentry into the balance of said triangular tract which 
might accrue by reason of the termination of the use by the United 
States of said one acre thereof. The execution and delivery of said 
instrument shall be subject to such additional terms and conditions 
as the Administrator shall deem appropriate to protect the interests 
of the United States." 
Approved October 21, 1968. 
Public Law 90-614 
AN A C T 
October 21, 1968 
To prescribe administrative procedures for tlie District of Coluinl)ia government. 
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Be It enacted hy the Senate and Flouse of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America In Congress assembled. 
District of 
Columbia Admin-
istrative Procedure 
SHORT TITLE 
Act. 
SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the "District of Columbia 
Administrative Procedure Act".