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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="8-603" title_number="8" title_name="Special Programs for Exceptional Children" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Hearing Aid and Language and Communication Video Loan Bank Program">
  <level label="a">
    <text>There is a permanent Hearing Aid and Language and Communication Video Loan Bank in the Department.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Program shall provide and maintain:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A pool of hearing aids in the Loan Bank to lend to a parent or legal guardian of an eligible individual who has no immediate access to a hearing aid;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Testing and programming equipment for hearing aids in the Loan Bank;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Supplies for repair and reconditioning of hearing aids in the Loan Bank; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Language and communication videos to be loaned to a parent or legal guardian of an eligible individual and resources that may be downloaded from a website that provide:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Unbiased information about language and communication options to use with a deaf or hard of hearing child; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Instruction on learning the language or communication options in item (i) of this item.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Governor shall include in the State budget an appropriation to the Program of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>$5,000 in fiscal year 2021; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>$300 in fiscal year 2022 and each fiscal year thereafter.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The appropriation in paragraph (1) of this subsection shall be used to satisfy the requirement in subsection (b)(4) of this section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
