TRICARE Reserve Improvement Act

Bill: 116-s-164
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
Introduced: 2019-01-16
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance

Military medicine

Military personnel and dependents

National Guard and reserves
Latest action: action_date: 2019-01-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-01-16
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><STRONG>TRICARE Reserve Improvement Act</STRONG></p>  <p>This bill expands TRICARE Reserve Select eligibility to include members of the Selected Reserve who are enrolled or eligible to enroll in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. </p>

tv_txt: II 116th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 164 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES January 16, 2019 Mr. Daines (for himself, Mr. Manchin , Mr. Crapo , Ms. Baldwin , Mrs. Capito , Mr. Tester , Mr. Boozman , Mrs. Shaheen , Mr. Moran , Mr. Jones , Mr. Hoeven , and Ms. Rosen ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services A BILL To amend title 10, United States Code, to remove the prohibition on eligibility for TRICARE Reserve Select of members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces who are eligible to enroll in a health benefits plan under chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the TRICARE Reserve Improvement Act . 2. Modification of eligibility for TRICARE Reserve Select of certain members of the Selected Reserve Section 1076d(a) of title 10, United States Code, is amended— (1) in paragraph (1), by striking (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), a member and inserting A member ; and (2) by striking paragraph (2).