PUBLIC LAW 106-398 —APPENDIX 114 STAT. 1654A-179 " (C) EXPLANATION.—Each report under subparagraph (B) shall include justifications for the changes or termination to which the report refers.". (f) CONDITIONAL EFFECTIVE DATE.—(1) Upon negotiating an agreement under the amendment made by subsection (c)(1), the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall jointly transmit a notification of the proposed agreement to the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, and shall include with the transmittal a copy of the proposed agreement and all related agreements and supporting documents. (2) Such proposed agreement shall take effect, and the amendments made by subsections (c)(2), (c)(3), (d), and (e) shall take effect, on such date as is provided for in such agreement and in an Act enacted after the date of the enactment of this Act. SEC. 713. ACCRUAL FU^fDING FOR HEALTH CARE FOR MEDICARE- ELIGIBLE RETIREES AND DEPENDENTS. (a) ESTABLISHMENT OF FUND.—(1) Part II of subtitle A of title 10, United States Code, is amended by inserting after chapter 55 the following new chapter: " CHAPTER 56—DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE MEDICARE- ELIGIBLE RETIREE HEALTH CARE FUND "Sec. "1111. Establishment and pxirpose of Fund; definitions. "1112. Assets of Fund. "1113. Payments from the Fund. "1114. Board of Actuaries. "1115. Determination of contributions to the Fund. "1116. Payments into the Fund. "1117. Investment of assets of Fund. '*§ 1111. Establishment and purpose of Fund; deHnitions "(a) There is established on the books of the Treasury a fund to be known as the Department of Defense Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Care Fund (hereafter in this chapter referred to as the 'Fund'), which shall be administered by the Secretary of the Treasury. The Fund shall be used for the accumulation of funds in order to finance on an actuarially sound basis liabilities of the Department of Defense under Department of Defense retiree health care programs for medicare-eligible beneficiaries. "(b) In this chapter: "(1) The term 'Department of Defense retiree health care programs for medicare-eligible beneficiaries' means the provisions of this title or any other provision of law creating entitlement to health care for a medicare-eligible member or former member of the uniformed services entitled to retired or retainer pay, or a medicare-eligible dependent of a member or former member of the uniformed services entitled to retired or retainer pay. "(2) The term 'medicare-eligible' means entitled to benefits under part A of title XVIII of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395c et seq.). "(3) The term 'dependent' means a dependent (as such term is defined in section 1072 of this title) described in section 1076(b)(1) of this title.
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