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An Act To Create Equity among Essential Nonprofit Health Care Providers in Relation to the Sales Tax and the Service Provider Tax
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 36 MRSA §1760, sub-§16, ¶F, as enacted by PL 2005, c. 622, §6, 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;
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;
Sec. 3. Effective date. This Act takes effect August 1, 2016.
 
Effective 90 days following adjournment of the 127th Legislature, Second Regular Session, unless otherwise indicated.