[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 153 (Thursday, September 22, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5024-S5025]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 5625. Mr. LANKFORD submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) 
and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2023 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

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other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

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

     SEC. 730. REQUIREMENTS OF CONTRACTOR UNDER PHARMACY BENEFITS 
                   PROGRAM.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that 
     all pharmacies that were considered in-network under the 
     pharmacy benefits program under section 1074g of title 10, 
     United States Code, under the contract that immediately 
     preceded the contract by the Secretary with Express Scripts 
     under such program in effect as of the date of the enactment 
     of this Act are considered in-network pharmacies under such 
     contract with Express Scripts on and after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act.
       (b) Previous Agreements.--The Secretary shall ensure that, 
     in carrying out their contract under the pharmacy benefits 
     program under section 1074g of title 10, United States Code, 
     Express Scripts honors all agreements made with pharmacies 
     under the contract that immediately preceded the contract by 
     the Secretary with Express Scripts under such program and the 
     terms of any such agreement.
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