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[CITE: 10USC1111]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
CHAPTER 56--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE MEDICARE-ELIGIBLE RETIREE HEALTH CARE 
                                  FUND
 
Sec. 1111. Establishment and purpose of Fund; definitions

    (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.

(Added Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 [[div. A], title VII, Sec. 713(a)(1)], 
Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A-179.)

                       References in Text

    The Social Security Act, referred to in subsec. (b)(2), is act Aug. 
14, 1935, ch. 531, 49 Stat. 620, as amended. Part A of title XVIII of 
the Act is classified generally to part A (Sec. 1395c et seq.) of 
subchapter XVIII of chapter 7 of Title 42, The Public Health and 
Welfare. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see 
section 1305 of Title 42 and Tables.
