[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 90 (Wednesday, June 8, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S3656]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4576. Mr. TILLIS 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:

       On page 337, line 5, insert before the semicolon the 
     following: ``, except in the case of a pharmaceutical agent 
     prescribed to a patient for which the prescribing health care 
     provider determines that such agent is medically necessary 
     for the patient and receives a waiver from the Secretary to 
     prescribe such agent to the patient under a process that the 
     Secretary shall establish for such purpose''.

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