Establishes Health Equity Access and Leadership Fund; appropriates $25 million from General Fund, and allocates portion of Health Care Subsidy Fund.
This bill establishes the Health Equity Access and Leadership (HEAL) Fund, a separate non-lapsing dedicated account within the Health Care Subsidy Fund. The fund is to receive an appropriation of $25 million from the General Fund and a portion of the Health Care Subsidy Fund revenues. The Commissioner of Health is to use the HEAL Fund to distribute competitive grants to health care community-based organizations and service providers that provide essential health care services to underserved or underinsured patient populations and all patients regardless of various characteristics.
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