S.Amdt. 5625

SA 5625. Mr. LANKFORD submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 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 B of title VII, add the following:

SEC. 730. REQUIREMENTS OF CONTRACTOR UNDER PHARMACY BENEFITS PROGRAM.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that all pharmacies that were considered in-network under the pharmacy benefits program under section 1074g of title 10, United States Code, under the contract that immediately preceded the contract by the Secretary with Express Scripts under such program in effect as of the date of the enactment of this Act are considered in-network pharmacies under such contract with Express Scripts on and after the date of the enactment of this Act.

(b) Previous Agreements.--The Secretary shall ensure that, in carrying out their contract under the pharmacy benefits program under section 1074g of title 10, United States Code, Express Scripts honors all agreements made with pharmacies under the contract that immediately preceded the contract by the Secretary with Express Scripts under such program and the terms of any such agreement.