An Act to amend chapter 17 of title 38,United States Code, in order to authorize hospital and medical care for peacetime veterans suffering from noncompensable service-connected disabilities.
PL 87-583 (S.3109), enacted 08/14/1962

76 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 87-583-AUG. 14, 1962 
381 
TITLE IX—GENEEAL PEOVISIONS 
SEC. 901. Appropriations contained in this Act, available for 
salaries and expenses, shall be available for services as authorized 
by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a) but at 
rates not to exceed $75 per diem for individuals, 'except as otherwise 
provided. 
SEC. 902. Appropriations contained in this Act available for 
salaries and expenses shall be available for uniforms or allowances 
therefor as authorized by the Act of September 1, 1954, as amended 
(5 U.S.C. 2131). 
SEC. 903. Appropriations contained in this Act available for salaries 
and expenses shall be available for expenses of attendance at meetings 
which are concerned with the functions or activities for which the 
appropriation is made or which will contribute to improved conduct, 
supervision, or management of those functions or activities. 
SEC. 904. None of the funds contained in this Act for "Juvenile de-
linquency and youth offenses" shall be paid, for the purpose of con-
ducting or assisting in conducting a research or demonstration project, 
to any person or organization registered with the Clerk of the House 
and the Secretary of the Senate under the Regulation of Lobbying 
Act. 
SEC. 905. The Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of Health, 
Education, and Welfare, are each authorized to make available not to 
exceed $5,000 from funds available for salaries and expenses under 
titles I and II, respectively, for entertainment, not otherwise pro-
vided for, of officials, visiting scientists, and other experts of other 
countries. 
This Act may be cited as the "Departments of Labor, and Health, 
Education, and Welfare Appropriation Act, 1963". 
Approved August 14, 1962. 
60 Stat. 810. 
Uniforms or 
allowances. 
68 Stat. 1114. 
Attendance at 
meetings. 
Restriction. 
60 Stat. 839. 
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Short title. 
Public Law 87-583 
AN ACT 
To amend chapter 17 of title 38, United States Code, in order to authorize 
hospital and medical care for peacetime veterans suffering from noncompensa-
ble service-connected disabilities. 
August 14, 1962 
[S. 3 109] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That paragraph (1) 
of section 610(a) of title 38, United States Code, is amended to read 
as follows: 
"(1)(A) any veteran for a service-connected disability; or 
"(B) a veteran of any war for a non-service-connected disabil-
ity if he is unable to defray the expenses of necessary hospital 
care;". 
SEC. 2. Section 612(a) of title 38, United States Code, is amended 
to read as follows: 
" (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), the Administrator, with-
in the limits of Veterans' Administration facilities, may furnish such 
medical services as he finds to be reasonably necessary to any veteran 
for a service-connected disability. 
In the case of any veteran dis-
charged or released from the active military, naval, or air service for 
a disability incurred or aggravated in line of duty, such services may 
be so furnished for that disability, whether or not service connected 
for the purposes of this chapter." 
Approved August 14,1962. 
Peacetime 
veterans. 
Hospital and 
medical care. 
72 Stat. 1141, 
1142.