[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 113 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 113

 To remove certain restrictions on participation in the demonstration 
 project conducted by the Secretary of Defense to provide health care 
  for Medicare-eligible Department of Defense beneficiaries under the 
               Federal Employees Health Benefits program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 6, 1999

  Mr. Cunningham (for himself, Mr. Hansen, Mr. Moran of Virginia, Mr. 
  Bilbray, and Ms. Granger) introduced the following bill; which was 
  referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the 
    Committee on Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To remove certain restrictions on participation in the demonstration 
 project conducted by the Secretary of Defense to provide health care 
  for Medicare-eligible Department of Defense beneficiaries under the 
               Federal Employees Health Benefits program.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. REMOVAL OF CERTAIN RESTRICTIONS ON PARTICIPATION BY ELIGIBLE 
              BENEFICIARIES IN FEHBP DEMONSTRATION PROJECT.

    (a) Removal of Numerical Restrictions.--Section 1108 of title 10, 
United States Code, is amended by striking the second sentence of 
subsection (a).
    (b) Removal of Geographic Restrictions.--Such section is further 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``and residing within 
        one of the areas covered by the demonstration project''; and
            (2) by striking subsection (c).
    (c) Enrollment Periods; Terms of Enrollment.--(1) Subsection (d)(2) 
of such section is amended by striking ``an open enrollment period for 
the year 2000 (conducted in the fall of 1999)'' and inserting ``open 
enrollment periods for the years 2000, 2001, and 2002 (conducted in the 
fall of 1999, 2000, and 2001, respectively)''.
    (2) Subsection (f)(1) of such section is amended by striking ``who 
enrolls'' and all that follows through ``the termination of the 
project'' and inserting ``shall be as follows unless the beneficiary 
disenrolls before the termination of the project:
            ``(A) For an eligible beneficiary who enrolls in the 
        demonstration project during the open enrollment period for the 
        year 2000, 3 years.
    ``(B) For an eligible beneficiary who enrolls in the demonstration 
project during the open enrollment period for the year 2001, 2 years.
    ``(C) For an eligible beneficiary who enrolls in the demonstration 
project during the open enrollment period for the year 2002, 1 year.''.
    (d) Conforming Amendments.--(1) Such section is further amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsections (d) through (l) as 
        subsections (c) through (k), respectively; and
            (2) in subsection (j) (as redesignated by paragraph (1)), 
        by striking ``subsection (j)(2)'' and inserting ``subsection 
        (i)(2)''.
    (2) Section 8906 of title 5, United States Code, is amended--
            (A) in subsection (b)(4), by striking ``subsection (i)'' 
        and inserting ``subsection (h)''; and
            (B) in subsection (g)(3), by striking ``subsection (i)'' 
        and inserting ``subsection (h)''.
    (3) Section 724 of the Strom Thurmond National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 (Public Law 105-261; 112 Stat. 
2069) is amended by striking ``subjection (j)'' and inserting 
``subsection (i)''.
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