To expand reimbursement for travel expenses of covered beneficiaries of CHAMPUS for specialty care in order to cover specialized dental care.

SA 739. Mr. DOMENICI submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 1050, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2004 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in title VII, insert the following:

SEC. __. REIMBURSEMENT OF COVERED BENEFICIARIES FOR CERTAIN TRAVEL EXPENSES RELATING TO SPECIALIZED DENTAL CARE.

Section 1074i of title 10, United States Code, is amended--(1) by inserting “(a) In General.--” before “In any case”; and (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection: “(b) Specialty Care Providers.--For purposes of subsection (a), the term ‘specialty care provider' includes a dental specialist (including an oral surgeon, orthodontist, prosthodontist, periodontist, endodontist, or pediatric dentist).”.