S.Amdt. 3250

SA 3250. Ms. MURKOWSKI submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by her to the bill S. 2296, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2026 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 C of title VII, add the following:

SEC. 724. PILOT PROGRAM ON DESIGNATION OF PREGNANCY AS
QUALIFYING LIFE EVENT UNDER TRICARE PROGRAM.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense shall carry out a
pilot program under which the Secretary designates pregnancy
as a qualifying life event for purposes of enrollment or
modification of enrollment in a health plan option under the
TRICARE program.
(b) Duration.--The Secretary shall carry out the pilot
program under subsection (a) for a period of not less than
five years.
(c) TRICARE Program Defined.--In this section, the term
``TRICARE program'' has the meaning given that term in
section 1072 of title 10, United States Code.
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