S.Amdt. 497

SA 497. Mr. WICKER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2018 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:

SEC. ___. ELIGIBILITY FOR CERTAIN HEALTH CARE BENEFITS OF
MEMBERS OF THE SELECTED RESERVE ORDERED TO
ACTIVE DUTY FOR PREPLANNED MISSIONS IN SUPPORT
OF THE COMBATANT COMMANDS.

(a) Pre-mobilization Health Care.--Section 1074(d)(2) of
title 10, United States Code, is amended by striking ``in
support of a contingency operation under'' and inserting
``under section 12304b of this title or''.
(b) Transitional Health Care.--Section 1145(a)(2)(B) of
such title is amended by striking ``in support of a
contingency operation'' and inserting ``under section 12304b
of this title or a provision of law referred to in section
101(a)(13)(B) of this title''.
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