S.Amdt. 4576

SA 4576. Mr. TILLIS 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:

On page 337, line 5, insert before the semicolon the
following: ``, except in the case of a pharmaceutical agent
prescribed to a patient for which the prescribing health care
provider determines that such agent is medically necessary
for the patient and receives a waiver from the Secretary to
prescribe such agent to the patient under a process that the
Secretary shall establish for such purpose''.

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