[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S5065]
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  SA 2833. Mr. LANKFORD submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2025 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:

        In section 705, in the new section 1074p, strike 
     subsection (b) and insert the following:
       ``(b) Fertility Treatment Defined.--In this section, the 
     term `fertility treatment'--
       ``(1) includes--
       ``(A) in vitro fertilization or other treatments or 
     procedures in which human oocytes, embryos, or sperm are 
     handled when clinically appropriate;
       ``(B) Sperm retrieval;
       ``(C) Egg retrieval;
       ``(D) Preservation of human oocytes, embryos, or sperm for 
     later reproductive use;
       ``(E) Artificial insemination, including intravaginal 
     insemination, intracervical insemination, and intrauterine 
     insemination;
       ``(F) Transfer of reproductive genetic material;
       ``(G) Medications as prescribed or necessary for fertility;
       ``(H) Fertility treatment coordination; and
       ``(I) Such other information, referrals, treatments, 
     procedures, testing, medications, laboratory services, 
     technologies, and services facilitating reproduction as 
     determined appropriate by the Secretary of Defense; and
       ``(2) excludes human cloning, artificial womb technology, 
     international surrogacy, or any treatments involving the use 
     of preimplantation genetic testing, or another form of 
     genetic diagnosis, to select an embryo based on its sex, 
     physical features, potential intelligence quotient (IQ) 
     level, or genetic profile.''.
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