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[CITE: 10USC1095a]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
                   CHAPTER 55--MEDICAL AND DENTAL CARE
 
Sec. 1095a. Medical care: members held as captives and their 
        dependents
        
    (a) Under regulations prescribed by the President, the Secretary 
concerned shall pay (by advancement or reimbursement) any person who is 
a former captive, and any dependent of that person or of a person who is 
in a captive status, for health care and other expenses related to such 
care, to the extent that such care--
        (1) is incident to the captive status; and
        (2) is not covered--
            (A) by any other Government medical or health program; or
            (B) by insurance.

    (b) In the case of any person who is eligible for medical care under 
section 1074 or 1076 of this title, such regulations shall require that, 
whenever practicable, such care be provided in a facility of the 
uniformed services.
    (c) In this section:
        (1) The terms ``captive status'' and ``former captive'' have the 
    meanings given those terms in section 559 of title 37.
        (2) The term ``dependent'' has the meaning given that term in 
    section 551 of that title.

(Added Pub. L. 99-399, title VIII, Sec. 806(c)(1), Aug. 27, 1986, 100 
Stat. 886, Sec. 1095; renumbered Sec. 1095a, Pub. L. 100-26, 
Sec. 7(e)(2), Apr. 21, 1987, 101 Stat. 281; amended Pub. L. 100-526, 
title I, Sec. 106(b)(1), Oct. 24, 1988, 102 Stat. 2625.)


                               Amendments

    1988--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 100-526 substituted ``The terms `captive 
status' '' for `` `Captive status' '' in par. (1), and ``The term 
`dependent' '' for `` `Dependent' '' in par. (2).


                       Effective Date; Regulations

    Section 806(c)(3) of Pub. L. 99-399 provided that:
    ``(A) Section 1095 [now 1095a] of title 10, United States Code, as 
added by paragraph (1), shall apply with respect to any person whose 
captive status begins after January 21, 1981.
    ``(B) The President shall prescribe specific regulations regarding 
the carrying out of such section with respect to persons whose captive 
status begins during the period beginning on January 21, 1981, and 
ending on the effective date of that section [Aug. 27, 1986].''

                         Delegation of Functions

    Functions of President under this section delegated to Secretary of 
Defense, see section 3 of Ex. Ord. No. 12598, June 17, 1987, 52 F.R. 
23421, set out as a note under section 5569 of Title 5, Government 
Organization and Employees.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 37 section 1013.
