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Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following:
‘An Act To Create Equity among Essential Nonprofit Health Care Providers in Relation to the Sales Tax and the Service Provider Tax’
Amend the bill in section 1 by striking out all of paragraph F (page 1, line 4 in L.D.) and inserting the following:
 
‘F. Incorporated nonprofit rural community health centers and incorporated nonprofit federally qualified health centers. For the purposes of this paragraph, "federally qualified health center" means a health center that is qualified to receive funding under Section 330 of the federal Public Health Service Act, 42 United States Code, Section 254b and a so-called federally qualified health center look-alike that meets the requirements of Section 254b;’
Amend the bill by inserting after section 1 the following:
‘Sec. 2. 36 MRSA §2557, sub-§3, ¶F, as enacted by PL 2005, c. 622, §10, is amended to read:
 
F. Incorporated nonprofit rural community health centers and incorporated nonprofit federally qualified health centers. For the purposes of this paragraph, "federally qualified health center" means a health center that is qualified to receive funding under Section 330 of the federal Public Health Service Act, 42 United States Code, Section 254b and a so-called federally qualified health center look-alike that meets the requirements of Section 254b;’
Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or section number to read consecutively.
 
SUMMARY
This amendment provides that the extension of the sales tax exemption in the bill is limited to incorporated nonprofit federally qualified health centers and makes the same change in the exemption for incorporated nonprofit rural community health centers under the service provider tax to maintain consistency in the exemptions under those 2 taxes.
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