S.Amdt. 4316

SA 4316. Mr. ROUNDS (for himself and Mr. Casey) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2943, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2017 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 A of title VII, add the following:

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SEC. 709. EXPEDITED EVALUATION AND TREATMENT FOR PRENATAL
SURGERY UNDER THE TRICARE PROGRAM.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense shall implement
processes and procedures to ensure that a covered beneficiary
under the TRICARE program whose pregnancy is complicated with
a fetal anomaly or suspected of being complicated with a
fetal anomaly receives, in an expedited manner and at the
discretion of the covered beneficiary, evaluation and
treatment from a perinatal or pediatric specialist capable of
providing surgical management and intervention in utero.
(b) Definitions.--In this section, the terms ``covered
beneficiary'' and ``TRICARE program'' have the meanings given
those terms in section 1072 of title 10, United States Code.
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