Below is a compilation of state legislation pertaining to health centers. To ensure access to the most current versions of state legislation, we have included links to each state’s legislative search sites at the bottom of this page. You can also click on the state abbreviation in the left column to be directed to that state's site.
Access to Care
| State | Year | Bill # | Bill Status | What does it mean for Health Centers? |
| AK | 2009 | HJR 10 | Amended | Alaska State Legislature supports federal and state funding and other efforts to ensure that veterans across the state have access to quality health care at CHCs |
| CT | 2009 | HB 6351 | Introduced | Each person eligible for state-administered general assistance shall be entitled to receive medical care through a federally qualified health center or other primary care provider as determined by the commissioner. |
| CT | 2009 | SB 843 / HB 6351 | Introduced | The Commissioner of Social Services shall determine appropriate service areas and shall, in the commissioner's discretion, contract with community health centers , other similar clinics, and other primary care providers, if necessary, to assure access to primary care services for recipients who live farther than a reasonable distance from a federally qualified health center |
| CT | 2009 | HB 6600 | Introduced | An act concerning the creation of the "SustiNet Plan" a self-insured health care delivery plan, administered by the authority and operated by a public-private partnership, that is designed to ensure that plan enrollees receive high-quality health care coverage without unnecessary costs. CHCs and other providers shall follow a developed method to: (A) Identify uninsured individuals who seek health care, and (B) convey such information to the board and said department to facilitate the potential enrollment of such individuals into health insurance coverage. |
| IA | 2009 | SR 9 | Introduced | A resolution encouraging a federal state collaboration to achieve quality, affordable health care for all. |
| MD | 2009 | HB 1186 / SB 881 | Introduced | This bill establishes a single-payer Maryland Health System to (1) provide comprehensive and coordinated health care coverage that is not dependent on employment to all State residents; (2) reduce costs; and (3) establish mechanisms to reduce medical errors, decrease health disparities, resolve provider shortages, and insure transparency and accountability. |
| OR | 2009 | HB 2523 | Introduced | A bill that establishes Oregon Health Access Fund and Core Health Safety Net aimed at maintaining or expanding access to medical and dental care through school-based health clinics and community health centers. |
| WA | 2009 | HB 1519 / SB 5140 | Introduced | Requiring language access services for persons with limited English proficiency in health care and insurance matters. |
| PA | 2009 | HB 889 | Introduced | Establishing the Community-Based Health Care Provider Access (CHCPA) Program in the Department of Health; providing for hospital health clinics and for a tax credit; and making an appropriation. |
General Appropriations
| State | Year | Bill # | Bill Status | What does it mean for Health Centers? |
| AK | 2008 | SB 221 | Enacted | Appropriates money for the Alaska Primary Care Association - Health Information Technology Network for CHCs as well as the Anchorage Neighborhood HC - relocation and construction and other CHC projects |
| GA | 2008 | HB 957 | Enacted | Establishes exemptions from state sales and use tax for nonprofit health centers. |
| OK | 2008 | HB 2386 | Enacted | Provides funding to FQHCs for the reimbursement of uncompensated care costs associated with the delivery of primary health care to uninsured patients and contracts for operational support to health centers having received FY 2007 state funds to establish FQHC Look-A-Like designation. |
| UT | 2008 | HB 206 | Enacted | A county legislative body of a county of the sixth class may impose a sales tax of up to 1% to fund FQHCs and rural health clinics in that county |
| HI | 2008 | HB 3205/SB 2673 | Failed | Distributes cigarette tax monies to community health centers special fund. |
| HI | 2008 | SB 3115 | Failed | Protects community health center special fund from being dipped into for general fund. |
| MN | 2008 | HB 3412 | Failed | Modifies current statute by stating that the amount of subsidies shall be in proportion to the amount of discounts granted to patients in the most recent calendar year. |
| MN | 2008 | SB 3099 | Failed | Appropriates $4,000,000 from the health care access fund as subsidies to FQHCs. This amount shall be added to the base level funding. |
| NC | 2008 | HB 2546 | Failed | Reallocates savings realized from restrictions on Community Supports funding, with $10,000,000 going to CHCs |
| OK | 2008 | HB 2368 | Failed | Will increase funding for federally qualified health centers. |
| RI | 2008 | HB 7954 | Failed | This act would reallocate five percent (5%) of the federal funds paid to hospitals treating the indigent and uninsured to support local federally qualified health centers. |
| IL | 2008 | SB 1103 | Pending | Appropriates 303,372,200 to CHCs for medical assistance under the Illinois public aid code, the Children's Health Insurance Programs Act and the Covering All Kids Health Insurance Act |
| IL | 2008 | SB 3012 | Pending | Appropriates $304,772,200 to CHCs for medical assistance under the Illinois public aid code, the Children's Health Insurance Programs Act and the Covering All Kids Health Insurance Act |
| IL | 2008 | HB 6155/ SB 2950 | Pending | Appropriations including $392,600 for community and migrant health centers to expand service capacity and develop additional sites, $9,991,000 for grants for the community health center expansion program. |
| IL | 2008 | HB 6521 | Pending | Appropriates $249,482,100 to CHCs for persons needing medical assistance that meet the eligibility of the Illinois Public Aid Code, the Children's Health Insurance Program Act and the Covering All Kids Health Insurance Act. |
| IL | 2008 | HB 6150 | Pending | Makes appropriations for Medical Assistance, the Children's Health Insurance Program Act and Covering All Kids Health Insurance Act, including health centers. |
| IL | 2008 | HB 6526 | Pending | Appropriates $310,734,650 to CHCs for persons needing medical assistance that meet the eligibility of the Illinois Public Aid Code, the Children's Health Insurance Program Act and the Covering All Kids Health Insurance Act. |
| CO | 2005 | HB 1262 | Pending | Appropriates funds to qualifying primary care providers. Establishes criteria for "qualifying providers", and includes FQHCs in the definition. Allows qualifying providers to receive funds in proportion to the number of medically indigent they serve. Includes a provision that qualifying providers give demographic and other information to the state on a yearly basis to justify their funds. Requires state consultation with providers, including FQHCs, concerning the implementation, administration and allocation of money. |
Capital Development
| State | Year | Bill # | Bill Status | What does it mean for Health Centers? |
| NH | 2008 | HB 1402 | Enacted | Directs the board of the business finance authority to develop a mechanism to open access to capital funding for New Hampshire CHCs |
| OH | 2008 | HB 562 | Enacted | Makes a grant available through Third Frontier Wright Capital for the Perry County Community Health Center at Hocking College and creates a physician loan repayment advisory board that consists of a representative of the Ohio Association of Community Health Centers. |
| HI | 2008 | HB 3008 | Failed | Provides a tax credit for improvements made to federally qualified health centers. |
| SC | 2008 | HB 3590 | Failed | Authorizes the state to acquire property under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 and distribute such property to non-profit health centers. |
| IL | 2008 | SB 2037 | Pending | Specifies that when the state is selling property they should first give priority to certain entities including health centers. |
| LA | 2007 | HB 765 | Enacted | Appropriates funds for statewide community primary care clinic planning, acquisition and construction. Requires that the administration develop and implement a plan to disburse the funds in accordance with the state's health care redesign activities. Provides that the Commissioner of the Department of Administration may do all things necessary with funds appropriated for health clinics to leverage the federal new markets tax credit program or any other federal tax program, to include hiring a non-profit to determine how best to maximize tax benefits. |
Health Information Technology (HIT)
| State | Year | Bill # | Bill Status | What does it mean for Health Centers? |
| AK | 2009 | SB 704 | Introduced | An act for the University of Arkansas for tele-video links to health institutions including CHCs |
| MD | 2009 | HB 706 / SB 744 | Introduced | This bill requires the Maryland Health Care Commission to adopt regulations by specified dates regarding adoption and certification of electronic health records (EHR) and reimbursement of providers by “State-regulated payers” for costs associated with adopting EHR. |
| NH | 2009 | SB 147 | Introduced | Relative to the data collection practices of health care providers and relative to the development of a comprehensive uninsured health care database. |
| NC | 2008 | HB 2241/SB 1802 | Failed | Creates a Legislative Study Commission on Electronic Health Information to develop a coordinated statewide electronic health information network and will seek consulation from potential participtants, including CHCs. |
| MA | 2008 | SB 2650 | Pending | Includes CHCs in proposals for electronic medical records as well as a tuition and loan forgiveness program and a community development housing grant and loan program. |
| DC | 2007 | LB 2 | Enacted | Appropriates funds for electronic health records system in community health centers: "(B) Of the remainder of the grant, $2.2 million in fiscal year 2007 and $2.8 in fiscal year 2009, shall be used to develop an electronic health record system for community health centers to promote higher quality of care, improved coordination of services among providers, and more accurate reporting of health statistics to the Department of Health; provided, that of the $2.2 million allocated for fiscal year 2007, $200,000 shall be used to support information technology needs for District of Columbia public and charter school nurse suites." |
| GA | 2007 | HB 94 | Enacted | Appropriates funds to The Georgia Association for Primary Health Care to complete the statewide Electronic Medical Records system in order to link the Federally Qualified Community Health Centers. |
| MN | 2007 | SB 2/HB 297 | Failed | Proposes an amendment to the Constitution to affirm state residents’ right to affordable health care; enacts other non-constitutional legislation to include electronic medical records: "By January 1, 2015, all hospitals and health care providers must have in place an interoperable electronic health records system within their hospital system or clinical practice setting. The commissioner of health, in consultation with the Health Information Technology and Infrastructure Advisory Committee, shall develop a statewide plan to meet this goal The commissioner shall distribute the funds appropriated under this section to federally qualified health centers operating in Minnesota as of January 1, 2007. The amount of each subsidy shall be in proportion to each federally qualified health center's amount of discounts granted to patients during calendar year 2006." |
Medicaid
| State | Year | Bill # | Bill Status | What does it mean for Health Centers? |
| CT | 2009 | SB 988 | Introduced | An act concerning Medicaid funding for state-administered general assistance saying that each person eligible for SAGA shall be entitled to receive medical care through a federally qualified health center or other primary care provider as determined by the commissioner. |
| NY | 2009 | HB 6165 | Introduced | To provide revenue to the Nassau County Health Care Corporation(which operates CHCs) through the adjustment of its Medicaid rate. |
| RI | 2009 | HB 5112 | Amended | Creates a Medicaid demonstrative taskforce consisting of a representative from an organization that provides care to Medicaid beneficiaries such as a Health Center |
| RI | 2009 | SB 53 | Amended | Creates a Medicaid demonstrative taskforce consisting of a representative from an organization that provides care to Medicaid beneficiaries such as a Health Center |
| FL | 2008 | SB 1508 | Failed | Authorizes Agency for Health Care Administration to enter into contracts with traditional providers of health care to low-income persons and assist them in developing Medicaid prepaid health plans. FQHCs are specifically listed as providers the agency may contract with. |
| HI | 2008 | SB 2858 | Failed | Creates an appropriate process whereby CHCs and rural health clinics will receive supplemental Medicaid payments and seeks modifications to their scope of services |
Reimbursement/PPS
| State | Year | Bill # | Bill Status | What does it mean for Health Centers? |
| IL | 2009 | SB 1174 | Introduced | Subject to federal approval, the Department shall establish a rate methodology for mammography at FQHCs and other encounter-rate clinics. |
| OK | 2009 | HB1108, 1200, 1201 | Introduced | An Act relating to the State Department of Health; addresses reimbursements to HCs |
| OR | 2009 | SB 914 | Introduced | Requires prepaid managed care health services organization to reimburse community health center or safety net clinic for costs of services provided by center or clinic to enrollee of organization. |
| HI | 2009 | HB 700 HD 2 | Introduced | Requires mutual and fraternal benefit societies, health maintenance organizations, and health plans other than government payers to pay: (1) critical access hospitals no less than a certain percentage of costs for services; and (2) federally qualified health centers no less than their respective prospective payment system rates. (HB700 HD2) |
| HI | 2008 | HB2795/SB 2542 | Enacted | The purpose of this Act is to ensure that the community health center system remains financially viable and stable to meet the increasing and changing health care needs of the population of uninsured and underinsured residents by creating an appropriate process for community health centers and rural health clinics to receive supplemental Medicaid payments and seek modifications to their scope of services. |
| IN | 2008 | SB 116/SB 164 | Enacted | This bill requires OMBB to reimburse Federally Qualified Health Centers and Rural Health Clinics using a prospective payment methodology. |
| IL | 2008 | HB 5192 | Pending | Subject to federal approval, the Department shall establish a rate methodology for mammography at federally qualified health centers and other encounter-rate clinics. |
| CA | 2008 | SB 260 | Vetoed | Would allow health centers to bill for more than one visit per day with the same provider or different provider under certain circumstances. |
| IA | 2008 | HB 2697 | Failed | Includes $650,000 to continue the incubation grant program for community health centers and specifies that FQHCs shall receive cost-based reimbursement for 100% of reasonable costs for the provision of services to recipients of medical assistance. |
Medical Homes
| State | Year | Bill # | Bill Status | What does it mean for Health Centers? |
| HI | 2009 | HB 1366 | Filed | Establishes medical home demonstration project to contract with AlohaCare to provide primary care to patients at health centers. |
| WV | 2009 | HB 3022 | Introduced | Creating a medical home health care plan for uninsured adults. Medical Homes shall include a variety of services including pharmaceutical programs offered by certain CHCs. |
| HI | 2009 | SB 1094 / HB 894 | Amended | Establishes a pilot program to direct payment of certain state funds to federally qualified health centers to support federally qualified health centers as patient-centered health care homes. Makes an appropriation. |
| FL | 2008 | HB 1437/SB 2316 | Failed | Creates a discount health care card pilot program in Miami-Dade County creating an alliance between providers including FQHCs to provide primary care at a discounted rate. Department of Health should negotiate reduced rates from providers and coordinate services to ensure county residents have a medical home. |
Workforce
| State | Year | Bill # | Bill Status | What does it mean for Health Centers? |
| CT | 2009 | HB 5172 | Amended | An act that establishes the Connecticut Healthy Steps Program. Which includes that the Department of Public Health shall establish and offer incentives for physicians in private practice who provide their services for at least four hours to federally qualified health centers. Such incentives may include, but not be limited to, reduced cost medical malpractice insurance offered or arranged for by the department and loan forgiveness from postsecondary educational institutions that receive funding from the state and partial payment of educational loans. |
| HI | 2009 | HB 169 | Amended | Establishes the Hawaii health corps that provides annual stipends to physicians and dentists who work in health professional shortage areas and shortage specialties; establishes the Hawaii health corps special fund. |
| HI | 2009 | SB 416 | Introduced | Establishes the Hawaii health corps program to address physician shortages in rural areas of the State; establishes a loan repayment program and an incentive plan for the recruitment of health care professionals to serve shortage areas. |
| MO | 2009 | SB 418 | Introduced | Enacts provisions for faith-based community health centers to provide limited liability insurance to medical professionals |
| NM | 2009 | HB 231 | Fiscal Note | appropriates $230,000 from the general fund to the Higher Education Department (HED) for the purpose of increasing the number of slots for dental students seeking support from the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE). Bill mentions shortage of dental personnel in CHCs. |
| TX | 2009 | HB 3469 / SB 1476 | Introduced | Relating to the authority of a community health center to contract with or employ an optometrist or therapeutic optometrist. |
| WA | 2009 | HB 1047 | Fiscal Note | Creates a family medicine residency training grant program, and requires the Department of Health (DOH) to disburse grant funds to at least three accredited, three-year family medicine residency programs sponsored or sited at community health centers in rural or urban medically underserved areas. |
| WA | 2009 | SB 5502 | Introduced | Establishing the primary care physician conditional tuition waiver program. |
| MA | 2009 | SB 2901 | Introduced | A registered dental hygienist practicing as a public health dental hygienist may perform in a public health setting (including FQHCs), without the supervision or direction of a dentist, any procedure or provide any service that is within the scope of his practice and that has been authorized and adopted by the board as a delegable procedure for dental hygienists in private practice under general supervision. |
| MN | 2009 | HB 1645 | Introduced | Make grants available to organizations, such as CHCs, for programs to provide specialized training and work experience for targeted youth who have not been served effectively by the current educational system. |
| MO | 2009 | SB 361 / HB 679 | Introduced | Authorizes the issuance of limited licenses for retired dentists, to practice primary and preventive care services at FQHCs and non-profit HCs. |
| CO | 2008 | SB 220 | Enacted | Allows an FQHC or rural health clinic to employ a physician as long as the clinic doesn't limit or exercise control over the physician's independent judgement and doesn't offer the physician any percentage of fees charged to patients by the center |
| NY | 2008 | HB 9808/SB 6808 | Enacted | Appropriates $5 million to be directed to support clinical training of medical students in free-standing abulatory facilities, including CHCs |
| OH | 2008 | HB 562 | Enacted | Makes a grant available through Third Frontier Wright Capital for the Perry County Community Health Center at Hocking College and creates a physician loan repayment advisory board that consists of a representative of the Ohio Association of Community Health Centers. |
| TN | 2008 | SB 2937 | Failed | Exempts federally qualified health centers from complying with certain rules promulgated by the board of medical examiners so long as such agencies meet the standards in effect on January 1, 2008. |
| MA | 2008 | HB 4783 | Pending | Establishes the Clara Barton Scholarship program to provide scholarships in approved MA colleges, universities and schools of nursing for the purpose of encouraging outstanding MA students to work in various health settings, including CHCs. |
| HI | 2008 | SB 2415 | Failed | Authorizes prescriptive authority for qualified psychologists who practice at a federally qualified health center. |
| WA | 2008 | HB 2784/SB 6665 | Failed | Implements a pilot program that provides intensive case management to persons with a primary chemical dependency diagnosis or dual primary chemical dependency and mental health diagnoses, through the employment of chemical dependency case managers. The chemical dependency case managers shall coordinate with federally qualified health centers, Indian health programs, and Veterans' health programs for which the person is eligible to reduce duplication of services and conflicts in case approach. |
| TN | 2008 | HB 4011/SB 3122 | Enacted | Allows a registered nurse or certified pharmacy technician in an FQHC to dispense prescription drugs without the direct, on-premises supervision of a pharmacist when the pharmacist provides supervision of the dispensing by means of telepharmacy/telemedicine technology. |
| MA | 2008 | SB 2650 | Pending | Includes CHCs in proposals for electronic medical records as well as a tuition and loan forgiveness program and a community development housing grant and loan program. |
| MA | 2008 | HB 4701/SB 2714 | Pending | Appropriates money to CHC for various programs, including $1,700,000 for a primary care workforce development and loan forgiveness grant program. |
| HI | 2007 | SB 977 | Failed | Appropriates funds to develop a statewide rural training model to provide a pipeline of well trained family physicians to improve health care access: "The partial costs of starting the two new academic clinical practices on the neighbor islands total $870,000 in fiscal year 2008 and $1,890,000 in fiscal year 2009. They include the costs of eight faculty physician salaries, clinic infrastructure improvements, transportation, and electronic health records. The sustainability of this model will be accomplished through a combination of CMS funding, clinical revenue, and support from rural hospital and community health center partners similar to programs adopted successfully in other rural states such as Washington and Wisconsin." |
Dental
| State | Year | Bill # | Bill Status | What does it mean for Health Centers? |
| FL | 2008 | SB 2760 | Enacted | Allows out-of-state dentists who meet certain criteria to practice in "health access settings", including community health centers, without the supervision of a dentist licensed in FL. |
| FL | 2008 | HB 1367 | Failed | Defines "public health settings" which includes FQHCs and look-alikes; defines "public health supervision"; creates licensure by credentials for certain dentists who receive public health dental license; requires that such dentists practice in public health settings. |
| HI | 2008 | SB 2543 | Failed | Appropriates funds to the department of health for the establishment or expansion of community-based dental health clinics that are operated by federally qualified health centers to provide a continuum of dental care to Medicaid and QUEST eligible adults and children, the developmentally disabled, and the uninsured. |
| NE | 2008 | LB 795 | Failed | Each of the 5 health centers would receive a one time appropriation of $300,000 to expand oral health care. |
Mental Health
| State | Year | Bill # | Bill Status | What does it mean for Health Centers? |
| NY | 2008 | HB 9804/SB 6804 | Enacted | Appropriates grant money to fund CHCs as well as specific money to fund primary care community outreach programs including HIV and substance abuse fellowships and children's asthma education |
| HI | 2008 | SB 2531 | Failed | Authorizes appropriately trained and supervised licensed medical psychologists practicing in federally qualified health centers, to prescribe psychotropic medications for the treatment of mental illness |
| VT | 2008 | HB 887 | Enacted | Appropriates $100,000 to the VT Dept of health for the child psychiatry division in the VT Center for Children, Youth and Families to support child tele-psychiatry pilots in CHCs. |
| HI | 2008 | SB 2415 | Failed | Authorizes prescriptive authority for qualified psychologists who practice at a federally qualified health center. |
| WA | 2008 | HB 2784/SB 6665 | Failed | Implements a pilot program that provides intensive case management to persons with a primary chemical dependency diagnosis or dual primary chemical dependency and mental health diagnoses, through the employment of chemical dependency case managers. The chemical dependency case managers shall coordinate with federally qualified health centers, Indian health programs, and Veterans' health programs for which the person is eligible to reduce duplication of services and conflicts in case approach. |
Prescription Drugs
| State | Year | Bill # | Bill Status | What does it mean for Health Centers? |
| ID | 2009 | SB 1109 | Fiscal Note | The Idaho Legend Drug Donation Act would establish a program under the Board of Pharmacy pursuant to which pharmacies, hospitals, nursing homes and drug manufacturers and distributors could donate legend drugs to qualifying community health centers and free clinics. The community health centers and free clinics that elect to participate in this program would, in turn, be allowed to dispense those drugs, pursuant to valid prescriptions, to medically indigent patients. |
| KS | 2008 | HB 2578 | Enacted | Authorizes the redistribution of unused drugs to qualifying entities, including FQHCs, who in turn will provide the medications to the indigent. |
| ME | 2008 | HB 1591 | Enacted | The purpose of this bill is to reduce the cost of prescription drugs purchased by the State and counties by expanding access to discounted prescription drugs under the federal 340B program. The bill includes FQHCs and look-alikes. |
| UT | 2008 | HB 74 | Enacted | The department shall, in accordance with this section, expand the state Medicaid program's use of savings under the 340B drug pricing program. The department shall determine work with the Association for Utah Community Health to identify and assist community clinics that do not have 340B drug pricing programs to determine whether, under applicable federal law the patients of the community health center would benefit from establishing a 340B drug pricing program either on site, or through a contract with a pharmacy provider. |
| UT | 2008 | HB 47 | Enacted | Beginning May 21, 2008, requires Department to report on a quarterly basis to the Legislature's Health and Human Services Interim Committee and HHS Approprations Subcommittee on the progress towards implementing an expansion of the use of the 340b drug pricing program by CHCs. |
| HI | 2008 | SB 2406 | Failed | Requires board of pharmacy to allow telepharmacy by certain federally qualified health centers participating in the federal 340B Pharmaceutical Purchasing Program. |
| HI | 2008 | SB 2531 | Failed | Authorizes appropriately trained and supervised licensed medical psychologists practicing in federally qualified health centers, to prescribe psychotropic medications for the treatment of mental illness |
| TN | 2008 | HB 4011/SB 3122 | Enacted | Allows a registered nurse or certified pharmacy technician in an FQHC to dispense prescription drugs without the direct, on-premises supervision of a pharmacist when the pharmacist provides supervision of the dispensing by means of telepharmacy/telemedicine technology. |
Other
| State | Year | Bill # | Bill Status | What does it mean for Health Centers? |
| RI | 2008 | HB 8271 | Failed | The purpose of this act is to reduce the vulnerability of HIV/AIDS transmission and provide consistent terms and standards. It includes Health Centers among the list of what this bill considers to be Health Care Settings. |
| DC | 2008 | LB 513 | Enacted | Establishes the DC Medical Liability Captive Insurance Agency to provide medical malpractice liability coverage for CHCs in DC |
| MO | 2008 | SB 1210 | Failed | This act provides that the professional corporations of physicians that provide uncompensated care, including health centers, shall also be covered under the state legal expense fund, and also adds tax-exempt charitable health care center referral networks to the list of authorized referral sources for purposes of coverage. |
| GA | 2008 | HR 1109 | Adopted | Recognizes February 13, 2008, as "Community Health Centers Day". |
| SC | 2008 | HR 4967 | Adopted | Commends staff at Margaret J. Weston CHC in Aiken County for their outstanding leadership in treatment of the medically underserved and congratulates them for being named the recipient of a 2008 Johnson and Johnson Crystal award. |
| VA | 2008 | HJR 279 | Adopted | A House Joint Resolution that thanks and commends CHCs that provide access to primary care and a "medical home", calls CHCs the pillars of the Commonwealth's safety net and commends the employees of CHCs. |
| FL | 2008 | HB 5085 | Enacted | Inclues FQHCs in the primary care disproportionate share program |
| FL | 2008 | HB 5003 | Enacted | Establishes an alliance of hospitals, FQHCs, free clinics, physician groups and other health care providers in Miami-Dade County for the purpose of increasing access to and coordination of care. |
| MN | 2008 | HB 3372/SB 3245 | Enacted | Introduces uniform billing form CMS 1450, to be used by FQHCs that are not being billed using an equivalent electronic billing format. |
| RI | 2008 | SB 2224/ HB 7464 | Enacted | This act would define a mobile health screening vehicle and would provide that such vehicles would be deemed to be health care facilities. Lists Community Health Centers among a long lis |
