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Senate Bill No. 159

(By Senators Bowman, Caldwell, Unger, McKenzie, Sharpe,

Rowe, Snyder and Mitchell)



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[Introduced January 10, 2002; referred to the Committee

on Health and Human Resources; and then to the Committee on Finance.]

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A BILL to amend article twenty-seven, chapter eleven of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section thirty-seven, relating to allowing dentists, optometrists and physicians a credit of one hundred dollars per hour toward payment of the health care provider tax for hours spent doing volunteer work in providing patient care services at one of the nine rural health centers in the state.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article twenty-seven, chapter eleven of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section thirty-seven, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 27. HEALTH CARE PROVIDER TAXES.

§11-27-37. Credit for volunteer services at rural health centers.

Any physician, dentist or optometrist subject to the tax imposed by this article shall be afforded a credit of one hundred dollars for each hour of volunteer service spent at any of the following rural health centers
: Brancazio Free Clinic in Weirton, Wheeling Healthright Clinic, Morgantown Healthright Clinic, Mercer County Healthright Clinic, Logan County Healthright Clinic, Good Samaritan Clinic in Parkersburg, Beckley Healthright Clinic, Clarksburg Healthright Clinic or the Ebenezeer Medical Outreach Clinic in Huntington. The rural health center in which the volunteer services are rendered is responsible for providing a statement of the number of volunteer hours expended for purposes of calculating the credit provided for under this section to the physician, dentist or optometrist who shall, in turn, submit the statement along with each payment of taxes due: Provided, That hours for which the credit provided for hereunder may be calculated, shall be restricted to hours actually spent for patient care services on site at the participating rural health center: Provided, however, That no credit shall be granted for travel time or time spent performing administrative functions.


NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to afford dentists, optometrists and physicians a credit against health care provider taxes due of one hundred dollars for each hour of volunteer services spent providing patient care services at a rural health center in the state.

This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.
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