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ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor Ch. 280
Community Health Resources Commission; requiring the Maryland Community
Health Resources Commission to adopt certain regulations on or before a certain
date; providing for the purpose, duties, powers, membership, terms of members,
meetings, compensation, composition, staff, and appointment of a chair, and
vice chair, and executive director of the Maryland Community Health Resources
Commission; requiring the Maryland Community Health Resources Commission
to submit a certain annual report to the Governor, the Secretary of Health and
Mental Hygiene, and the General Assembly; providing that certain powers of the
Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene do not apply to the Commission;
requiring the Commission to develop a certain toll-free hotline; requiring the
Commission to coordinate with certain persons to provide certain outreach to
certain individuals; requiring the Commission to refer individuals to community
health resources groups in fulfilling its duties according to a certain schedule
and in a certain manner; requiring the Maryland Community Health Resources
Commission to adopt certain regulations in consultation with certain persons;
requiring the Commission to establish standing committees on Capital and
Operational Funding, Hospital and Community Health Resources Relations,
School based Community Health Clinic Center Expansion, and Data
Information Systems; providing for the composition and duties of the standing
committees; requiring each standing committee to submit relating to certain
criteria to qualify as a community health resource; a certain annual report to the
Commission on or before a certain date certain reports to certain persons on or
before certain dates; requiring the Maryland Community Health Resources
Commission to adopt certain regulations relating to the services that a
community health resource shall provide; requiring the Maryland Community
Health Resources Commission to adopt certain regulations relating to grants;
requiring the Maryland Community Health Resources Commission to
administer, develop, identify, evaluate, and study certain programs; establishing
the Community Health Resources Commission Fund; establishing the sources
and uses of funds in the Community Health Resources Commission Fund;
specifying the use of grants awarded to a community health resource resources;
requiring the Treasurer to invest the money in the Fund in a certain manner;
providing that any investment earnings of the Fund shall be retained to the
credit of the Fund; providing for the investment of the Fund; providing that the
Fund is subject to a certain audit by the Office of Legislative Audits; requiring
the Maryland Community Health Resources Commission and the Maryland
Health Insurance Plan, in collaboration with community health resources and
local health departments, to develop a specialty care network for certain
individuals; requiring the specialty care network to meet certain requirements;
requiring individual who receive care through the specialty care network to pay
for specialty care according to a sliding fee scale; requiring specialty care to be
subsidized by certain funds; requiring the Maryland Community Health
Resources Commission, in coordination with the Maryland Health Insurance
Plan, to determine the funds needed for to provide to community health
resources subsidies for specialty care; requiring the Commission to obtain funds
from an assessment on hospitals under certain circumstances; requiring the
Commission to assist individuals with certain income in according certain health
care coverage; establishing the Federally Qualified Health Centers Grant
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