Sec. 1. 36 MRSA §1760, sub-§16, as amended by PL 1999, c.708, §25, 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 residential care facilities licensed by the Department of Human Services, incorporated nonprofit home health 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 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, incorporated nonprofit organizations or their affiliates whose purpose is to provide literacy assistance or free clinical assistance to children with dyslexia and regularly organized churches or houses of religious worship, excepting except for sales, storage or use in activities that are mainly commercial enterprises. "Schools" means incorporated nonstock educational institutions, including institutions empowered to confer educational, literary or academic degrees, that have a regular faculty, curriculum and organized body of pupils or students in attendance throughout the usual school year 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 all nonprofit health clinics that is currently available to rural community health clinics, hospitals and their affiliated clinics, nonprofit dental health clinics and other similar health care providers.