[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2910 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2910

    To require the Secretary of Defense to implement processes and 
procedures to provide expedited treatment of fetal anomalies under the 
                            TRICARE program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 10, 2016

  Mr. Rounds introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
              referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require the Secretary of Defense to implement processes and 
procedures to provide expedited treatment of fetal anomalies under the 
                            TRICARE program.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``TRICARE Treatment for Fetal Repair 
Improvement Act of 2016''.

SEC. 2. EXPEDITED TREATMENT FOR FETAL REPAIR UNDER THE TRICARE PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense shall implement processes 
and procedures to ensure that a covered beneficiary under the TRICARE 
program who is diagnosed with a fetal anomaly receives evaluation and 
treatment from a qualified health care provider in the pediatric 
specialties of fetal medicine and surgery so that surgical repair of 
the fetal anomaly may occur in an expedited manner.
    (b) Definitions.--In this section, the terms ``covered 
beneficiary'' and ``TRICARE program'' have the meanings given those 
terms in section 1072 of title 10, United States Code.
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