[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 84 (Thursday, May 26, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3326-S3327]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4316. Mr. ROUNDS (for himself and Mr. Casey) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2943, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2017 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for 
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle A of title VII, add the following:

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     SEC. 709. 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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