menstrual suppression and predictable menstrual 
patterns) which is important in ensuring readiness 
for deployment to remote or operational theaters. 
(10) Research studies based on the Department 
of Defense Survey of Health Related Behaviors 
Among Active Duty Military Personnel found a high 
rate of unintended pregnancy among women mem-
bers. Adjusting for the difference between age dis-
tributions in the Armed Forces and the general pop-
ulation, the rate of unintended pregnancy among 
women members is higher than among the general 
population. 
(11) The Defense Advisory Committee on 
Women in the Services has recommended that all 
the Armed Forces, to the extent that they have not 
already, implement initiatives that inform members 
of the importance of family planning, educate them 
on methods of contraception, and make various 
methods of contraception available, based on the 
finding that family planning can increase the overall 
readiness and quality of life of all members of the 
military. 
(12) The military departments received more 
than 6,700 reports of sexual assaults involving mem-
bers as victims or subjects during fiscal year 2017. 
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Through regulations, the Department of Defense al-
ready supports a policy of ensuring that women 
members who are sexually assaulted have access to 
emergency contraception, and the initiation of con-
traception if desired and medically appropriate. 
SEC. 3. CONTRACEPTION COVERAGE PARITY UNDER THE 
TRICARE PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1074d of title 10, United 
States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by inserting ‘‘FOR MEM-
BERS
AND FORMER MEMBERS’’ after ‘‘SERVICES 
AVAILABLE’’; 
(2) by redesignating subsection (b) as sub-
section (d); and 
(3) by inserting after subsection (a) the fol-
lowing new subsections: 
‘‘(b) CARE RELATED
TO PREVENTION
OF PREG-
NANCY.—Female covered beneficiaries shall be entitled to 
care related to the prevention of pregnancy described by 
subsection (d)(3). 
‘‘(c) PROHIBITION ON COST-SHARING FOR CERTAIN 
SERVICES.—Notwithstanding section 1074g(a)(6), section 
1075, or section 1075a of this title or any other provision 
of law, cost-sharing may not be imposed or collected for 
care related to the prevention of pregnancy provided pur-
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suant to subsection (a) or (b), including for any method 
of contraception provided, whether provided through a fa-
cility of the uniformed services, the TRICARE retail phar-
macy program, or the national mail-order pharmacy pro-
gram.’’. 
(b) CARE RELATED
TO PREVENTION
OF PREG-
NANCY.—Subsection (d)(3) of such section, as redesig-
nated by subsection (a)(2) of this section, is further 
amended by inserting before the period at the end the fol-
lowing: ‘‘(including all methods of contraception approved 
by the Food and Drug Administration, contraceptive care 
(including with respect to insertion, removal, and follow 
up), sterilization procedures, and patient education and 
counseling in connection therewith)’’. 
(c) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENT.—Section 
1077(a)(13) of such title is amended by striking ‘‘section 
1074d(b)’’ and inserting ‘‘section 1074d(d)’’. 
SEC. 4. PREGNANCY PREVENTION ASSISTANCE AT MILI-
TARY MEDICAL TREATMENT FACILITIES FOR 
SEXUAL ASSAULT SURVIVORS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 55 of title 10, United 
States Code, is amended by inserting after section 1074o 
the following new section: 
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‘‘§ 1074p. Provision of pregnancy prevention assist-
ance at military medical treatment facili-
ties 
‘‘(a) INFORMATION
AND ASSISTANCE.—The Sec-
retary of Defense shall promptly furnish to sexual assault 
survivors at each military medical treatment facility the 
following: 
‘‘(1) Comprehensive, medically and factually ac-
curate, and unbiased written and oral information 
about all methods of emergency contraception ap-
proved by the Food and Drug Administration. 
‘‘(2) Notification of the right of the sexual as-
sault survivor to confidentiality with respect to the 
information and care and services furnished under 
this section. 
‘‘(3) Upon request by the sexual assault sur-
vivor, emergency contraception or, if applicable, a 
prescription for emergency contraception. 
‘‘(b) INFORMATION.—The Secretary shall ensure that 
information provided pursuant to subsection (a) is pro-
vided in language that— 
‘‘(1) is clear and concise; 
‘‘(2) is readily comprehensible; and 
‘‘(3) meets such conditions (including condi-
tions regarding the provision of information in lan-
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guages other than English) as the Secretary may 
prescribe in regulations to carry out this section. 
‘‘(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) The term ‘sexual assault survivor’ means 
any individual who presents at a military medical 
treatment facility and— 
‘‘(A) states to personnel of the facility that 
the individual experienced a sexual assault; 
‘‘(B) is accompanied by another person 
who states that the individual experienced a 
sexual assault; or 
‘‘(C) whom the personnel of the facility 
reasonably believes to be a survivor of sexual 
assault. 
‘‘(2) The term ‘sexual assault’ means the con-
duct described in section 1565b(c) of this title that 
may result in pregnancy.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
at the beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting 
after the item relating to section 1074o the following new 
item: 
‘‘1074p. Provision of pregnancy prevention assistance at military medical treat-
ment facilities.’’. 
SEC. 5. EDUCATION ON FAMILY PLANNING FOR MEMBERS 
OF THE ARMED FORCES. 
(a) EDUCATION PROGRAMS.— 
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