Sec. 1. 36 MRSA §1760, sub-§16, as amended by PL 1987, c. 343, §4, is further amended to read:

16. Hospitals, research centers, churches and schools. Sales to incorporated hospitals, incorporated nonprofit nursing homes licensed by the Department of Human Services, incorporated nonprofit boarding care facilities licensed by the Department of Human Services, incorporated nonprofit home health care agencies certified under the United States Social Security Act of 1965, Title XVIII, as amended, incorporated nonprofit rural community health centers engaged in, or providing facilities for, the delivery of comprehensive primary health care, incorporated nonprofit health clinics, incorporated nonprofit dental health centers, institutions incorporated as nonprofit corporations for the sole purpose of conducting medical research or for the purpose of establishing and maintaining laboratories for scientific study and investigation in the field of biology or ecology or operating educational television or radio stations, schools and regularly organized churches or houses of religious worship, excepting sales, storage or use in activities which that are mainly commercial enterprises. "Schools" means incorporated nonstock educational institutions, including institutions empowered to confer educational, literary or academic degrees, which that have a regular faculty, curriculum and organized body of pupils or students in attendance throughout the usual school year, which and that keep and furnish to students and others records required and accepted for entrance to schools of secondary, collegiate or graduate rank, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any individual.

SUMMARY

This bill provides the same sales and use tax exemption to nonprofit health clinics that is currently available to hospitals and their affiliated clinics, nonprofit dental health clinics and similar health care providers.