Sec. 1. Support for primary and preventive health care services. The Department of Human Services, Bureau of Health shall undertake an initiative in primary and preventive health care to expand access for underserved populations, utilizing $2,000,000 appropriated in fiscal year 2001-02 and annually thereafter. The initiative must provide support for health care access in 2 ways:

1. Funding for Community Health Center Program. One million, seven hundred thousand dollars to support community, migrant and homeless health centers receiving funding from the Community Health Center Program operated by the federal Bureau of Primary Health Care. From this amount, funding must be provided as follows:

A. One hundred fifty thousand dollars per year must be provided as Medicaid seed for a contract with the Maine Ambulatory Care Coalition to provide financial and other support to health centers in assisting individuals in applying for Medicaid program and Cub Care program benefits. This funding is provided to meet the federal requirement to provide Medicaid outstationing services at health centers;

B. Three hundred seventy-five thousand dollars per year must be provided as the Medicaid seed to provide incentives under Medicaid to improve the quality of services and enhance the delivery of preventive services at health centers. The Department of Human Services, Bureau of Medical Services shall work collaboratively with the Maine Ambulatory Care Coalition in developing this program and provide $75,000 each year for the state seed for a contract with the Maine Ambulatory Care Coalition to assist health centers in designing and participating in the incentive program. This program will enhance the provision of preventive services and improve the quality of services at health centers provided through Medicaid; and

C. One million, one hundred seventy-five thousand dollars per year must be provided by August 1st of each year to health center grantees to support the infrastructure of these programs in providing primary care services to underserved populations. Fifty thousand dollars per year must be provided to each grantee with an additional $10,000 for the 2nd and each additional site operated by a grantee. The remainder must be allocated among health center grantees according to a formula that provides that a grantee will receive funding in proportion to its total number of