S.Amdt. 825

SA 825. Mr. FETTERMAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2024 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 appropriate place in subtitle A of title VII, insert
the following:

SEC. 7___. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON ACCESS TO MENTAL HEALTH
SERVICES THROUGH TRICARE.

It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Defense
should take all necessary steps to ensure members of the
National Guard and the members of their families who are
enrolled in TRICARE have timely access to mental and
behavioral health care services through the TRICARE program.
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