Title: Dental Care for Our Troops Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Dental Care for Our Troops Act
This bill allows the Department of Defense (DOD) to establish a premium-free dental plan for members of the Selected Reserve. Participants in this dental plan may not be charged copays for services covered by the plan. (Current law requires DOD to offer a dental plan to members of the Selected Reserve, but the plan has premiums and copays.)

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8113 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8113

  To amend title 10, United States Code, to eliminate certain charges 
under the TRICARE dental program for members of the Selected Reserve of 
               the Ready Reserve, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 16, 2022

   Mr. Kim of New Jersey (for himself and Mr. Kelly of Mississippi) 
 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 eliminate certain charges 
under the TRICARE dental program for members of the Selected Reserve of 
               the Ready Reserve, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Dental Care for Our Troops Act''.

SEC. 2. TRICARE DENTAL FOR SELECTED RESERVE.

    Section 1076a of title 10, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)--
                            (i) in the header, by striking ``selected 
                        reserve and''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``for members of the 
                        Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve and'';
                    (B) in paragraph (2), in the header, by inserting 
                ``individual ready'' after ``other''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following new 
                paragraph:
            ``(5) Plan for selected reserve.--A dental benefits plan 
        for members of the Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve.'';
            (2) in subsection (d)--
                    (A) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph 
                (4); and
                    (B) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following 
                new paragraph:
            ``(3) No premium plans.--(A) The dental insurance plan 
        established under subsection (a)(5) is a no premium plan.
            ``(B) Members enrolled in a no premium plan may not be 
        charged a premium for benefits provided under the plan.'';
            (3) in subsection (e)(2)(A), by striking ``a member of the 
        Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve or'';
            (4) by redesignating subsections (f) through (k) as 
        subsections (g) through (l), respectively;
            (5) by inserting after subsection (e) the following new 
        subsection (f):
    ``(f) Copayments Under No Premium Plans.--A member who receives 
dental care under a no premium plan referred to in subsection (d)(3) 
shall pay no charge for any care described in subsection (c).''; and
            (6) in subsection (i), as redesignated by paragraph (4), by 
        striking ``subsection (k)(2)'' and inserting ``subsection 
        (l)(2)''.
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