S.Amdt. 1630

SA 1630. Ms. MURKOWSKI submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities
of the Department of Defense and for military construction, 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 G of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1085. REQUIREMENT TO CONTACT CERTAIN TRICARE PROVIDERS
TO DETERMINE INTEREST IN PARTICIPATING IN
CHOICE PROGRAM OF DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS
AFFAIRS.

(a) Submittal of List.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 60 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall
submit to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs a list of all
health care providers who participate in the TRICARE program
and who are not health care providers of the Department of
Defense.
(2) Update.--Not less frequently than twice each year after
the submittal of the list under paragraph (1), the Secretary
of Defense shall submit to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs
an update to such list.
(b) Determination of Interest in Participation.--The
Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall contact each provider
included in the list submitted under paragraph (1) or any
update to such list submitted under paragraph (2) to
determine whether any such provider would be interested in
furnishing care to veterans under section 101 of the Veterans
Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 (Public Law
113-146; 38 U.S.C. 1701 note).
(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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