[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1387 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1387

    To require the Secretary of Defense to implement processes and 
 procedures to provide expedited evaluation and treatment for prenatal 
                   surgery under the TRICARE program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 21, 2017

  Mr. Rounds (for himself, Mr. Casey, and Mr. Booker) 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 evaluation and treatment for prenatal 
                   surgery 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 Expedited Evaluation and 
Treatment for Prenatal Surgery Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. EXPEDITED EVALUATION AND TREATMENT FOR PRENATAL SURGERY 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 whose pregnancy is complicated with a fetal anomaly or 
suspected of being complicated with a fetal anomaly receives, in an 
expedited manner and at the discretion of the covered beneficiary, 
evaluation and treatment from a perinatal or pediatric specialist 
capable of providing surgical management and intervention in utero.
    (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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