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erally accepted actuarial practices and prin-
ciples.’’.
SEC. 312. FUNDING UNIFORMED SERVICES HEALTH BENE-
FITS FOR ALL RETIREES.
Title 10, United States Code, is amended—
(1) in the title of chapter 56, by striking ‘‘DE-
PARTMENT OF DEFENSE MEDICARE-
ELIGIBLE’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘UNIFORMED
SERVICES’’;
(2) in section 1111—
(A) in subsection (a)—
(i) by striking ‘‘Department of De-
fense Medicare-Eligible’’ and inserting
‘‘Uniformed Services’’;
(ii) by striking ‘‘Department of De-
fense under’’; and
(iii) by striking ‘‘for medicare-eligible
beneficiaries’’;
(B) in subsection (c)—
(i) by striking ‘‘The Secretary of De-
fense may’’ and inserting ‘‘The Secretary
of Defense shall’’;
(ii) by striking ‘‘with any other’’ and
inserting ‘‘with each’’;
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(iii) by striking ‘‘Any such agree-
ment’’ and inserting ‘‘Such agreements’’;
and
(iv) by striking ‘‘administering Sec-
retary may’’ and inserting ‘‘administrative
Secretary shall’’;
(3) in section 1113—
(A) in subsection (a)—
(i) by striking ‘‘and are medicare eli-
gible’’;
(ii) by striking ‘‘who are medicare eli-
gible’’; and
(iii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new sentence: ‘‘For the fiscal year
starting October 1, 2002, only, the pay-
ments will be solely for the costs of mem-
bers or former members of a uniformed
service who are entitled to retired or re-
tainer pay and are medicare-eligible, and
eligible dependents or survivors who are
medicare-eligible.’’;
(B) in subsection (c)(1), by striking ‘‘who
are medicare-eligible’’;
(C) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘who are
medicare-eligible’’; and
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(D) in subsection (f), by striking ‘‘If’’ and
inserting ‘‘When’’;
(4) in section 1114, in subsection (a)(1), by
striking ‘‘Department of Defense Medicare-Eligible’’
and inserting ‘‘Uniformed Services’’;
(5) in section 1115—
(A) in subsection (b)(2), by striking ‘‘The
amount determined under paragraph (1) for
any fiscal year is the amount needed to be ap-
propriated to the Department of Defense (or to
the other executive department having jurisdic-
tion over the participating uniformed service)’’
and inserting ‘‘The amount determined under
paragraph (1), or the amount determined under
section 1111(c) for a participating uniformed
service, for any fiscal year, is the amount need-
ed to be appropriated to the Department of De-
fense (or to any other executive department
having jurisdiction over a participating uni-
formed service)’’;
(B) in subsection (c)(2), by striking ‘‘for
medicare eligible beneficiaries’’; and
(C) by adding at the end the following new
subsection:
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‘‘(f) For the fiscal year starting October 1, 2002,
only, the amounts in this section shall be based solely on
the costs of medicare-eligible benefits of beneficiaries and
the costs for their eligible dependents or survivors who are
medicare-eligible, and shall be recalculated thereafter to
reflect the cost of beneficiaries defined in section 1111.’’;
and
(6) in section 1116—
(A) in subsection (a)(1)(A), by striking
‘‘for medicare-eligible beneficiaries’’;
(B) in subsection (a)(2)(A), by striking
‘‘for medicare-eligible beneficiaries’’; and
(C) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘sub-
section (a) shall be paid from funds available
for the health care programs’’ and inserting
‘‘subsection (a) and section 1111(c) shall be
paid from funds available for the pay of mem-
bers of the participating uniformed services
under the jurisdiction of the respective admin-
istering secretaries’’.
SEC. 313. EFFECTIVE DATE.
Except as otherwise provided, this title shall take ef-
fect upon enactment with respect to fiscal years beginning
after 2003.
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