Title: To amend title 10, United States Code, to ensure that certain TRICARE beneficiaries who reside in Puerto Rico may enroll in TRICARE Prime, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
This bill requires the Department of Defense to ensure that TRICARE beneficiaries whose health benefits are provided under contract, other than certain Medicare-eligible beneficiaries and certain beneficiaries in the active-duty family member category, may enroll in the TRICARE Prime managed care option in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, beginning not later than January 1, 2022.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1822 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1822

 To amend title 10, United States Code, to ensure that certain TRICARE 
 beneficiaries who reside in Puerto Rico may enroll in TRICARE Prime, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 11, 2021

 Miss Gonzalez-Colon introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                   to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 10, United States Code, to ensure that certain TRICARE 
 beneficiaries who reside in Puerto Rico may enroll in TRICARE Prime, 
                        and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AVAILABILITY OF TRICARE PRIME IN PUERTO RICO.

    (a) Availability of TRICARE Prime in Puerto Rico.--Section 1097 of 
title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 
following new subsection:
    ``(f) Availability of TRICARE Prime in Puerto Rico.--(1) In 
designating geographical areas under subsection (b)(3), the Secretary 
of Defense shall ensure that the individuals described in paragraph (2) 
may enroll in TRICARE Prime in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 
beginning not later than January 1, 2022.
    ``(2) The individuals described in this paragraph are--
            ``(A) beneficiaries covered by subsection (c) of section 
        1086 of this title, other than Medicare-eligible beneficiaries 
        described in subsection (d)(2) of such section; and
            ``(B) beneficiaries in the active-duty family member 
        category (as described in section 1075(b)(1) of this title), 
        without regard to whether such beneficiaries are dependents of 
        members who have relocated pursuant to an order for a change in 
        duty station that does not authorize the dependent to accompany 
        the member to the new duty station at the expense of the United 
        States.''.
    (b) Report.--Not later than six months after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the 
Committees on Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the 
Senate a report on the progress of the Secretary in carrying out the 
requirements of subsection (f) of section 1097 of title 10, United 
States Code, as added by subsection (a).
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