Sec. 206. Coordination between Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs on furnishing of fertility treatment and counseling
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The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall share best practices and facilitate referrals, as they consider appropriate, on the furnishing of fertility treatment and counseling to individuals eligible for the receipt of such counseling and treatment from the Secretaries. The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall enter into a memorandum of understanding— providing that the Secretary of Defense will ensure access by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to reproductive genetic material, such as oocytes, sperm, fertilized eggs, and embryos, of veterans stored by the Department of Defense for purposes of furnishing fertility treatment under section 1720K of title 38, United States Code, as added by section 212(a); and authorizing the Department of Veterans Affairs to compensate the Department of Defense for the cryopreservation, transportation, and storage of reproductive genetic material of veterans under section 204(b)(2)(A).