US Congress Senate Bill 1078 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6)
Status: Introduced on May 23 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-05-23 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
Pending: Senate Armed Services Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 to direct the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to ensure that each beneficiary other than an active-duty beneficiary who is enrolled in TRICARE Prime (a DOD managed health care program) as of September 30, 2013, may make a one-time election to continue such enrollment, notwithstanding that an existing TRICARE contract does not allow for such enrollment based on the location in which the beneficiary resides. Allows the beneficiary to continue in such enrollment while residing in the same ZIP Code in which the beneficiary resided at the time of election. Allows such a beneficiary to elect, at any time, to instead enroll in TRICARE Standard.

A bill to direct the Secretary of Defense to provide certain TRICARE beneficiaries with the opportunity to retain access to TRICARE Prime.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]	Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]	Sen. Kay Hagan [D-NC]	Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]
Sen. Mark Pryor [D-AR]	Sen. Brian Schatz [D-HI]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-05-23	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.

HB1971 (Same As) 2013-06-20 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/1078/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/s1078/BILLS-113s1078is.pdf