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        <fullName>Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]</fullName>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Clarity for Military Retiree Health Care Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax exclusion of benefits under cafeteria employee benefit plans, to allow a participant in a cafeteria plan which permits a revocation of an election during a period of coverage and&nbsp;a new election based upon a change in status event, to treat an event that causes an employee to become eligible&nbsp;for coverage under the TRICARE health care program for military personnel&nbsp;as a change in status event. </p>]]></text>
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