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

  SA 5626. 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 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. LIMITATION ON USE OF PHARMACIES UNDER PHARMACY 
                   BENEFITS PROGRAM.

       The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that any entity with 
     which the Secretary has entered into a contract to carry out 
     the pharmacy benefits program under section 1074g of title 
     10, United States Code, does not exclusively use the private 
     network of pharmacies of the entity, or pharmacies with which 
     the entity is affiliated, as the base for the network of 
     pharmacies used by the entity under such contract.
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