[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 49 (Tuesday, March 24, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S1817]
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SA 513. Mr. VITTER (for himself, Mr. King, and Ms. Murkowski)
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the concurrent
resolution S. Con. Res. 11, setting forth the congressional budget for
the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth the
appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025; which
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the appropriate place, insert the following:
SEC. ___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO EXPANDING
MEDICARE BENEFICIARY ACCESS TO EYE TRACKING
ACCESSORIES AND SPEECH GENERATING DEVICES FOR
DISABLED INDIVIDUALS UNDER THE MEDICARE
PROGRAM.
The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate
may revise the allocations of a committee or committees,
aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution
for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments,
amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports
relating to providing Medicare beneficiaries access to eye
tracking accessories for speech generating devices and to
remove the rental cap for durable medical equipment under the
Medicare program with respect to speech generating devices by
the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes,
provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit
over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2025.
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