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SEC. 721. ONE YEAR EXTENSION OF PILOT PROGRAM FOR 
PRESCRIPTION 
DRUG 
ACQUISITION 
COST 
PARITY IN THE TRICARE PHARMACY BENE-
FITS PROGRAM. 
Section 743(d) of the National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114–328) is amend-
ed— 
(1) by striking ‘‘October 1, 2017’’ and inserting 
‘‘October 1, 2018’’; and 
(2) by striking ‘‘September 30, 2018’’ and in-
serting ‘‘September 30, 2019’’. 
SEC. 722. PILOT PROGRAM ON HEALTH CARE ASSISTANCE 
SYSTEM. 
(a) PILOT PROGRAM.—The Secretary of Defense 
shall carry out a pilot program to provide a health care 
assistance service to certain covered beneficiaries enrolled 
in TRICARE Prime or TRICARE Select to improve the 
health outcomes and patient experience for covered bene-
ficiaries with complex medical conditions. 
(b) ELEMENTS.—The pilot program under subsection 
(a) may include the following elements: 
(1) Assisting families with complex medical con-
ditions to understand and use the health benefits 
under the TRICARE program. 
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(2) Supporting such families in accessing and 
navigating the health care delivery system. 
(3) Providing such families with information to 
allow the families to make informed decisions with 
health care providers. 
(4) Improving the health outcomes for such 
families. 
(c) DURATION.—The Secretary shall carry out the 
pilot program for an amount of time determined appro-
priate by the Secretary during the five-year period begin-
ning January 1, 2018. 
(d) REPORT.—Not later than January 1, 2021, the 
Secretary shall submit to the Committees on Armed Serv-
ices of the House of Representatives and the Senate a re-
port containing an evaluation of the success of the pilot 
program under subsection (a), including an analysis of the 
implementation of the elements under subsection (b). 
(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the terms ‘‘cov-
ered beneficiary’’, ‘‘TRICARE Prime’’, ‘‘TRICARE pro-
gram’’, and ‘‘TRICARE Select’’ have the meaning given 
those terms in section 1072 of title 10, United States 
Code. 
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SEC. 
723. 
RESEARCH 
OF 
CHRONIC 
TRAUMATIC 
ENCEPHALOPATHY. 
Of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this 
Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2018 for 
advanced development for research, development, test, and 
evaluation for the Defense Health Program, not more than 
$25,000,000 may be used to award grants to medical re-
searchers and universities to support research into early 
detection of chronic traumatic encephalopathy. 
SEC. 724. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON ELIGIBILITY OF VICTIMS 
OF ACTS OF TERROR FOR EVALUATION AND 
TREATMENT AT MILITARY TREATMENT FA-
CILITIES. 
Section 717 of the National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114–328) is amend-
ed by striking subsection (d) and inserting the following 
new subsections: 
‘‘(d) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that the civilians covered by this section include 
United States victims of domestic and international ter-
rorism. 
‘‘(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) The term ‘act of terror’ means an act of 
domestic terrorism or international terrorism, as 
those terms are defined in section 2331 of title 18, 
United States Code. 
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‘‘(2) The term ‘covered beneficiary’ has the 
meaning given that term in section 1072 of title 10, 
United States Code. 
‘‘(3) The term ‘victim’, with respect to an act 
of terror, means an individual who suffered physical 
injury as a direct result of the act of terror.’’. 
SEC. 725. PROHIBITION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR 
TERMINATION OF VETS4WARRIORS CRISIS 
HOTLINE PROGRAM. 
None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by 
this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2018 
for the Department of Defense may be obligated or ex-
pended to terminate the Vets4Warriors crisis hotline pro-
gram unless the Secretary of Defense has submitted to 
the congressional defense committees a report describing 
a sufficient replacement to such program. 
SEC. 726. REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF GAO REC-
OMMENDATIONS. 
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit 
a report to the congressional defense committees on the 
implementation by the Department of Defense of the rec-
ommendations from the Government Accountability Office 
report entitled ‘‘Actions Needed to Ensure Post-Trau-
matic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury Are 
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Considered in Misconduct Separations’’ and published 
May 16, 2017. 
SEC. 
727. 
AUTHORIZATION 
OF 
INTERGOVERNMENTAL 
AGREEMENTS 
FOR 
THE 
PROVISION 
OF 
HEALTH SCREENINGS. 
Section 2679(e)(1) of title 10, United States Code, 
is amended by adding at the end the following new sen-
tence: ‘‘Such term includes health screenings for condi-
tions relating to the exposure of perfluorooctanesuflonic 
acid and perfluorooctanoic acid in communities near for-
merly used defense sites that have been identified by the 
Secretary of Defense as sources of such acids.’’ 
SEC. 728. STUDY ON SAFE OPIOID PRESCRIBING PRAC-
TICES. 
(a) STUDY.—The Secretary of Defense shall conduct 
a study on the effectiveness of the training provided to 
military health care providers regarding opioid prescribing 
practices, initiatives in opioid safety, the use of the VA/ 
DOD Clinical Practice Guideline for Management of 
Opioid Therapy for Chronic Pain, and other related train-
ing. 
(b) ELEMENTS.—The study under subsection (a) 
shall address the effectiveness of training with respect to 
the following: 
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