[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 88 (Monday, June 6, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S3439]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4386. Mr. BLUMENTHAL 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:

     SEC. 709. INCLUSION OF COVERAGE OF IN VITRO FERTILIZATION 
                   TREATMENTS AS PART OF CONTINUED HEALTH BENEFITS 
                   COVERAGE.

       The Secretary of Defense shall include coverage of in vitro 
     fertilization treatments at military treatment facilities as 
     a covered health benefit under the program of continued 
     health benefits coverage under section 1078a of title 10, 
     United States Code, for any beneficiary under such section in 
     the same manner in which such treatments were covered for 
     such beneficiary under chapter 55 or section 1145 of such 
     title before the beneficiary became eligible for coverage 
     under section 1078a of such title.
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