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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="8-606" 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>Beginning in 2011, no later than December 31 each year, the State Superintendent shall submit a report to the Governor and, subject to § 2–1257 of the State Government Article, the General Assembly regarding the implementation of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The annual report shall include the following information:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The number and ages of individuals who received hearing aids through the Program that year;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The number of individuals who received hearing aids through the Program that year and subsequently received hearing aids through Medicaid, the Maryland Children’s Health Program, or private insurance;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The length of each original loan of a hearing aid;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The number of times that each original loan of a hearing aid was extended and the length of each extension;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>The number of times that hearing aids were not properly returned to the Loan Bank; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Any other information that the State Superintendent believes is relevant to evaluating the costs and benefits of the Program.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
