Editorial Notes Codification Section, act Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title XVIII, § 1896, as added Pub. L. 105–33, title IV, § 4015(a) , Aug. 5, 1997 , 111 Stat. 337 ; amended Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [[div. A] , title VII, § 712(a)(2), (b)–(e)], Oct. 30, 2000 , 114 Stat. 1654 , 1654A–177, 1654A–178; Pub. L. 107–314, div. A, title VII, § 713 , Dec. 2, 2002 , 116 Stat. 2589 ; Pub. L. 108–173, title VII, § 736(c)(8) , Dec. 8, 2003 , 117 Stat. 2356 , authorized the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of Defense , acting jointly, to establish a demonstration project for providing medicare health care services to certain medicare -eligible military retirees or dependents in a military treatment facility or by a designated provider, to be conducted during the 4-year period beginning on January 1, 1998 .