Oklahoma 2024 2024 Regular Session

Oklahoma House Bill HB3673 Amended / Bill

Filed 03/03/2024

                     
 
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - FLOOR VERSION 
 
STATE OF OKLAHOMA 
 
2nd Session of the 59th Legislature (2024) 
 
HOUSE BILL 3673 	By: Miller of the House 
 
   and 
 
  Stanley of the Senate 
 
 
 
 
 
AS INTRODUCED 
 
An Act relating to militia; mandating the creati on of 
the Oklahoma Tricare Reserve Select Reimbursement 
Program; defining eligible recipients; clarifying 
applicability; requiring rulemaking ; providing for 
codification; and providing an eff ective date. 
 
 
 
 
 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA: 
SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified 
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 238 of Title 44, unless there is 
created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows: 
A.  The Military Department of the State of Oklahoma shall 
create the Oklahoma Tricare Reserve Select Reimbursement Program. 
B.  In this section, "eligible recipient" means an individual 
who is: 
1.  Eligible for, and currently enrolled in , Tricare Reserve 
Select;   
 
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2.  A member of the state military forces as defined in 
paragraph 56 of subsection A of Section 801 of Title 44 of the 
Oklahoma Statutes; 
3.  Serving state active duty as defined in paragraph 54 of 
subsection A of Section 801 of Title 44 of the Oklahoma Statutes ; 
and 
4.  On state active duty orders for thirty (30) days or more. 
C.  The Department may award grants to an eli gible recipient who 
meets the reimbursement application requirements fo r any of the 
following: 
1.  A premium paid for individual coverage through the Tri care 
Reserve Select program; or 
2.  A premium paid for any member of the immediate family of an 
eligible recipient covered under the Tricare Reserve Select program. 
D.  The Department shall promulgate rules to implement and 
administer the Tricare Premium Reimbu rsement Program established 
under this act. 
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effe ctive November 1, 2024. 
 
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS AND BUDGET , dated 
02/29/2024 - DO PASS, As Coauthored.