[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 7 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                  S. 7

 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to make permanent the 
   removal of the rental cap for durable medical equipment under the 
      Medicare program with respect to speech generating devices.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            December 1, 2016

  Mr. Vitter (for himself and Ms. Klobuchar) introduced the following 
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to make permanent the 
   removal of the rental cap for durable medical equipment under the 
      Medicare program with respect to speech generating devices.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Steve Gleason Act of 2016''.

SEC. 2. MAKING PERMANENT THE REMOVAL OF THE RENTAL CAP FOR DURABLE 
              MEDICAL EQUIPMENT UNDER MEDICARE WITH RESPECT TO SPEECH 
              GENERATING DEVICES.

    Section 1834(a)(2)(A)(iv) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1395m(a)(2)(A)(iv)) is amended by striking ``and before October 1, 
2018,''.
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