118 STAT. 1981 PUBLIC LAW 108–375—OCT. 28, 2004 ‘‘(2) The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe for the purposes of this section one premium for TRICARE Standard coverage of members without dependents and one premium for TRICARE Standard coverage of members with dependents referred to in sub section (f)(1). The premium prescribed for a coverage shall apply uniformly to all covered members of the reserve components. ‘‘(3) The monthly amount of the premium in effect for a month for TRICARE Standard coverage under this section shall be the amount equal to 28 percent of the total monthly amount that the Secretary determines on an appropriate actuarial basis as being reasonable for that coverage. ‘‘(4) The premiums payable by a member of a reserve component under this subsection may be deducted and withheld from basic pay payable to the member under section 204 of title 37 or from compensation payable to the member under section 206 of such title. The Secretary shall prescribe the requirements and procedures applicable to the payment of premiums. ‘‘(5) Amounts collected as premiums under this subsection shall be credited to the appropriation available for the Defense Health Program Account under section 1100 of this title, shall be merged with sums in such Account that are available for the fiscal year in which collected, and shall be available under subsection (b) of such section for such fiscal year. ‘‘(e) RELATIONSHIP OF SERVICE AGREEMENT TO OTHER SERVICE COMMITMENTS.—The service agreement required of a member of a reserve component under subsection (a)(2) is separate from any other form of commitment of the member to a period of obligated service in that reserve component and may cover any part or all of the same period that is covered by another commitment of the member to a period of obligated service in that reserve component. ‘‘(f) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: ‘‘(1) The term ‘immediate family’, with respect to a member of a reserve component, means all of the member’s dependents described in subparagraphs (A), (D), and (I) of section 1072(2) of this title. ‘‘(2) The term ‘TRICARE Standard’ means the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services option under the TRICARE program. ‘‘(g) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the other administering Secretaries, shall prescribe regulations for the administration of this section.’’. (2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 1076c the following new item: ‘‘1076d. TRICARE program: coverage for members of reserve components who com mit to continued service in the Selected Reserve after release from ac tive duty.’’. (b) IMPLEMENTATION.—(1) The Secretary of Defense shall imple ment section 1076d of title 10, United States Code, not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act. (2)(A) A member of a reserve component of the Armed Forces who performed active duty service described in subsection (a) of section 1076d of title 10, United States Code, for a period beginning on or after September 11, 2001, and was released from that active duty service before the date of the enactment of this Act, or is released from that active duty service on or within 180 days after Deadline. 10 USC 1076d note.
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