To establish a demonstration project to authorize certain covered beneficiaries under the military health care system (including the dependents of active duty military personnel and retired members and their dependents) to enroll in the Federal Employees Health Benefits program and to ensure their future health security through the use of medical savings accounts.

Unfavorable Executive Comment Received from DOD.

Congressional Research Service

Official summary

Version 00 · Introduced in House · Jun 26, 1997

Directs the Secretary of Defense to conduct a demonstration project in at least one region of the TRICARE program (a DOD managed health care program) to provide beneficiaries covered under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) with the option to receive health care through the Federal Employees Health Benefits program, in addition to other health care options available to such covered beneficiaries. Outlines participation eligibility requirements, with a special rule for Medicare (title XVIII of the Social Security Act) participants. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to permit a project participant to take a tax credit of 25 percent of the amount paid on behalf of such participant to a medical savings account. Requires a report from the Secretary of Defense to the Congress containing a plan to implement the demonstration project and to permit participants to maintain and use medical savings accounts.

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People & committees

Who introduced it

Rep. Stearns, Cliff [R-FL-6] · R–FL

Committees

Armed Services Committee
Oversight and Government Reform Committee
Ways and Means Committee

3 cosponsorship records, including any withdrawals

Legislative record

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Nov 17, 1997
Unfavorable Executive Comment Received from DOD.
Aug 28, 1997
Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
Aug 28, 1997
Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
Jul 2, 1997
Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service.
Jul 1, 1997
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jun 27, 1997
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1347)
Jun 26, 1997
Referred to House Ways and Means
Jun 26, 1997
Referred to House National Security
Jun 26, 1997
Referred to the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, and in addition to the Committees on National Security, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Jun 26, 1997
Referred to House Government Reform
Jun 26, 1997
Introduced in House
Jun 26, 1997
Introduced in House

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Discuss H.R.2100, 105th Congress: To establish a demonstration project to authorize certain covered beneficiaries under the military health care system (including the dependents of active duty military personnel and retired members and their dependents) to enroll in the Federal Employees Health Benefits program and to ensure their future health security through the use of medical savings accounts.

Official record: https://www.congress.gov/bill/105th-congress/house-bill/2100

Text version to examine: Introduced in House · 1997-06-26.

Official full text: https://www.congress.gov/105/bills/hr2100/BILLS-105hr2100ih.htm

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Discuss H.R.2100, 105th Congress: To establish a demonstration project to authorize certain covered beneficiaries under the military health care system (including the dependents of active duty military personnel and retired members and their dependents) to enroll in the Federal Employees Health Benefits program and to ensure their future health security through the use of medical savings accounts.

Official record: https://www.congress.gov/bill/105th-congress/house-bill/2100

Text version to examine: Introduced in House · 1997-06-26.

Official full text: https://www.congress.gov/105/bills/hr2100/BILLS-105hr2100ih.htm

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Discuss H.R.2100, 105th Congress: To establish a demonstration project to authorize certain covered beneficiaries under the military health care system (including the dependents of active duty military personnel and retired members and their dependents) to enroll in the Federal Employees Health Benefits program and to ensure their future health security through the use of medical savings accounts.

Official record: https://www.congress.gov/bill/105th-congress/house-bill/2100

Text version to examine: Introduced in House · 1997-06-26.

Official full text: https://www.congress.gov/105/bills/hr2100/BILLS-105hr2100ih.htm

Imported record last updated by the source: 2025-06-06T14:19:13Z. Verify current status and distinguish any later version from the version above.

Read the official text before answering. If you cannot access it, say so and ask me to provide it; do not assume a link means you have read the document. Distinguish proposals from enacted law, cite sources, and separate facts, interpretation, and uncertain predictions. Include counterarguments even when using a particular perspective.

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Discuss H.R.2100, 105th Congress: To establish a demonstration project to authorize certain covered beneficiaries under the military health care system (including the dependents of active duty military personnel and retired members and their dependents) to enroll in the Federal Employees Health Benefits program and to ensure their future health security through the use of medical savings accounts.

Official record: https://www.congress.gov/bill/105th-congress/house-bill/2100

Text version to examine: Introduced in House · 1997-06-26.

Official full text: https://www.congress.gov/105/bills/hr2100/BILLS-105hr2100ih.htm

Imported record last updated by the source: 2025-06-06T14:19:13Z. Verify current status and distinguish any later version from the version above.

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Examine H.R.2100 through a civil-liberties and limited-government lens. Consider individual rights, privacy, voluntary choice, accountability, and government power. Explain tradeoffs, possible safeguards, and the strongest counterarguments without assuming the proposal is beneficial or harmful.