[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 132 (Thursday, July 31, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S5066]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3250. Ms. MURKOWSKI submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by her to the bill S. 2296, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2026 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 C of title VII, add the following:

     SEC. 724. PILOT PROGRAM ON DESIGNATION OF PREGNANCY AS 
                   QUALIFYING LIFE EVENT UNDER TRICARE PROGRAM.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense shall carry out a 
     pilot program under which the Secretary designates pregnancy 
     as a qualifying life event for purposes of enrollment or 
     modification of enrollment in a health plan option under the 
     TRICARE program.
       (b) Duration.--The Secretary shall carry out the pilot 
     program under subsection (a) for a period of not less than 
     five years.
       (c) TRICARE Program Defined.--In this section, the term 
     ``TRICARE program'' has the meaning given that term in 
     section 1072 of title 10, United States Code.
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