S.Amdt. 6085

SA 6085. Mr. BLUMENTHAL (for himself, Mr. Wyden, Ms. Warren, Mr. King, Mr. Bennet, Mrs. Murray, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Kaine, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Booker, Mr. Hickenlooper, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Sanders, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mrs. Feinstein, Ms. Collins, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Heinrich, and Mr. Murphy) 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 G of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1077. LIMITATION ON COPAYMENTS FOR CONTRACEPTION FOR VETERANS.

Section 1722A(a)(2) of title 38, United States Code, is amended--

(1) by striking “to pay” and all that follows through the period and inserting “to pay--”; and

(2) by adding at the end the following new subparagraphs:

“(A) an amount in excess of the cost to the Secretary for medication described in paragraph (1); or

“(B) an amount for any contraceptive item for which coverage under health insurance coverage is required without the imposition of any cost-sharing requirement pursuant to section 2713(a)(4) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300gg-13(a)(4)).”.