S.Amdt. 5626

SA 5626. 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. LIMITATION ON USE OF PHARMACIES UNDER PHARMACY BENEFITS PROGRAM.

The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that any entity with which the Secretary has entered into a contract to carry out the pharmacy benefits program under section 1074g of title 10, United States Code, does not exclusively use the private network of pharmacies of the entity, or pharmacies with which the entity is affiliated, as the base for the network of pharmacies used by the entity under such contract.