[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 157 (Wednesday, September 28, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5336]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 5868. Mr. MORAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) 
and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2023 for military activities of the 
Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense 
activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel 
strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the end of subtitle A of title VII, add the following:

     SEC. 706. EXPANSION OF ELIGIBILITY FOR HEARING AIDS TO 
                   INCLUDE CHILDREN OF CERTAIN RETIRED MEMBERS OF 
                   THE UNIFORMED SERVICES.

       Paragraph (16) of section 1077(a) of title 10, United 
     States Code, is amended to read as follows:
       ``(16) Except as provided by subsection (g), a hearing aid, 
     but only if the dependent has a profound hearing loss, as 
     determined under standards prescribed in regulations by the 
     Secretary of Defense in consultation with the administering 
     Secretaries, and only for the following dependents:
       ``(A) A dependent of a member of the uniformed services on 
     active duty.
       ``(B) A dependent under subparagraph (D) or (I) of section 
     1072(2) of this title of a former member of the uniformed 
     services who is entitled to retired or retainer pay, or 
     equivalent pay.''.
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