Expanding Access to Fertility Care for Servicemembers and Dependents Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3025 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3025

 To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for the coverage of 
assisted reproductive services under the TRICARE program, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 24, 2025

Ms. Strickland (for herself, Ms. Norton, Mr. Takano, and Ms. Pressley) 
 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 provide for the coverage of 
assisted reproductive services under the TRICARE program, 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 ``Expanding Access to Fertility Care 
for Servicemembers and Dependents Act''.

SEC. 2. COVERAGE OF ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE SERVICES UNDER TRICARE 
              PROGRAM.

    Chapter 55 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by inserting 
after section 1074o the following new section:
``Sec. 1074p. Assisted reproductive services for certain members and 
              dependents
    ``(a) In General.--Any member of the armed forces (including the 
reserve components) performing active service who is entitled to 
medical care under the TRICARE program, and any dependent of such a 
member, shall be entitled to assisted reproductive services as part of 
such medical care, without regard to any of the following:
            ``(1) Whether the assisted reproductive service is related 
        to the treatment of a service-connected disability.
            ``(2) Whether the member has a serious illness or injury 
        resulting from a service-connected disability.
            ``(3) The ability of the member or dependent, as 
        applicable--
                    ``(A) to conceive a pregnancy or carry a pregnancy 
                to live birth after an appropriate period of regular, 
                unprotected sexual intercourse; or
                    ``(B) to reproduce, either as an individual or with 
                a partner.
            ``(4) The sex, gender, sexual orientation, or marital 
        status of the member or dependent, as applicable.
    ``(b) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) The term `appropriate period' means, with respect to 
        an individual, a period of at least one year, unless the health 
        care provider of the individual determines, based on medical 
        history, age, or physical findings, that a shorter period is 
        appropriate.
            ``(2) The term `assisted reproductive services' includes 
        the following services:
                    ``(A) Assisted reproduction, including intravaginal 
                insemination, intracervical insemination, and 
                intrauterine insemination.
                    ``(B) In-vitro fertilization.
                    ``(C) The preservation of embryos, eggs, or sperm 
                through cryopreservation.
                    ``(D) Such other forms of assisted reproductive 
                services as determined appropriate by the Secretary.''.
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