[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 127 (Thursday, July 27, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S4505]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 497. Mr. WICKER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2018 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. ___. ELIGIBILITY FOR CERTAIN HEALTH CARE BENEFITS OF 
                   MEMBERS OF THE SELECTED RESERVE ORDERED TO 
                   ACTIVE DUTY FOR PREPLANNED MISSIONS IN SUPPORT 
                   OF THE COMBATANT COMMANDS.

       (a) Pre-mobilization Health Care.--Section 1074(d)(2) of 
     title 10, United States Code, is amended by striking ``in 
     support of a contingency operation under'' and inserting 
     ``under section 12304b of this title or''.
       (b) Transitional Health Care.--Section 1145(a)(2)(B) of 
     such title is amended by striking ``in support of a 
     contingency operation'' and inserting ``under section 12304b 
     of this title or a provision of law referred to in section 
     101(a)(13)(B) of this title''.
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