exempt

                                                                                                  

 

Assembly Bill No. 350–Assemblymen Freeman, Leslie, Parnell, Gibbons, de Braga, Anderson, Arberry, Bache, Beers, Berman, Buckley, Carpenter, Cegavske, Chowning, Giunchigliani, Goldwater, Humke, Lee, Manendo, Mortenson, Neighbors, Nolan, Oceguera, Parks, Smith, Tiffany, Von Tobel and Williams

 

March 13, 2001

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Joint Sponsors: Senators Mathews, Neal and Coffin

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Referred to Committee on Ways and Means

 

SUMMARY—Makes appropriation for partial support of Federally Qualified Community Health Centers that provide primary health care to uninsured residents of Nevada. (BDR S‑1203)

 

FISCAL NOTE:            Effect on Local Government: No.

                                    Effect on the State: Contains Appropriation included in Executive Budget.

 

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

 

AN ACT making an appropriation for the partial support of Federally Qualified Community Health Centers that provide primary health care to uninsured residents of Nevada at reduced rates; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

1-1    Section 1. 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the state general

1-2  fund to the Interim Finance Committee the sum of $1,000,000 to pay a

1-3  portion of the operational costs of the Federally Qualified Community

1-4  Health Centers in this state that provide primary health care to uninsured

1-5  residents at reduced rates based upon the income of the resident. The

1-6  money must be used to increase the number of uninsured patients to whom

1-7  primary health care is provided.

1-8    2.  Each Federally Qualified Community Health Center in this state

1-9  may submit a request to the Interim Finance Committee to receive funding

1-10  from the money appropriated by subsection 1. The request must include a

1-11  proposed budget for the expenditure of the money requested. The Interim

1-12  Finance Committee shall allocate the money appropriated by subsection 1

1-13  to the Federally Qualified Community Health Centers in this state as nearly

2-1  as possible in the same proportion as the number of patient encounters of

2-2  each Federally Qualified Community Health Center that requests money

2-3  from the appropriation bears to the total number of patient encounters of all

2-4  Federally Qualified Community Health Centers in this state that request

2-5  money from the appropriation. The number of patient encounters used to

2-6  calculate the proportion of money to be allocated must be the number of

2-7  patient encounters as reported in the Uniform Data Set (UDS) for such

2-8  period as is determined appropriate by the Interim Finance Committee. The

2-9  Interim Finance Committee is not required to approve the entire funding in

2-10  any request or to allocate the entire amount appropriated.

2-11    3.  The Interim Finance Committee shall require such documentation

2-12  and reporting by the Federally Qualified Community Health Centers as it

2-13  deems necessary to ensure the productive use of the money appropriated by

2-14  subsection 1.

2-15    4.  Any remaining balance of the sum appropriated by subsection 1

2-16  must not be allocated by the Interim Finance Committee after June 30,

2-17  2003, and reverts to the state general fund as soon as all payments of

2-18  money committed have been made.

2-19    Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective upon passage and approval.

 

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