[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1132 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1132

 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

                              May 16, 2017

 Mr. Cassidy (for himself, Ms. Klobuchar, and Mr. King) 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 2017''.

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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