S.Amdt. 2833

SA 2833. Mr. LANKFORD submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2025 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:

In section 705, in the new section 1074p, strike
subsection (b) and insert the following:
``(b) Fertility Treatment Defined.--In this section, the
term `fertility treatment'--
``(1) includes--
``(A) in vitro fertilization or other treatments or
procedures in which human oocytes, embryos, or sperm are
handled when clinically appropriate;
``(B) Sperm retrieval;
``(C) Egg retrieval;
``(D) Preservation of human oocytes, embryos, or sperm for
later reproductive use;
``(E) Artificial insemination, including intravaginal
insemination, intracervical insemination, and intrauterine
insemination;
``(F) Transfer of reproductive genetic material;
``(G) Medications as prescribed or necessary for fertility;
``(H) Fertility treatment coordination; and
``(I) Such other information, referrals, treatments,
procedures, testing, medications, laboratory services,
technologies, and services facilitating reproduction as
determined appropriate by the Secretary of Defense; and
``(2) excludes human cloning, artificial womb technology,
international surrogacy, or any treatments involving the use
of preimplantation genetic testing, or another form of
genetic diagnosis, to select an embryo based on its sex,
physical features, potential intelligence quotient (IQ)
level, or genetic profile.''.
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