(30 ILCS 766/10-10)

Sec. 10-10. Operation of the grant program.

(a) The Board, in consultation with the Department, shall establish the Community Health Center Construction Grant Program and may make grants to eligible community providers subject to appropriations out of funds reserved for capital improvements or expenditures as provided for in this Act. The Program shall operate in a manner so that the estimated cost of the Program during the fiscal year will not exceed the total appropriation for the Program. The grants shall be for the purpose of constructing or renovating new community health center sites, renovating existing community health center sites, and purchasing equipment to provide primary health care services to medically underserved populations or areas as defined in Section 10-5 of this Act or providing primary health care services to the uninsured population of Illinois.

(b) A recipient of a grant to establish a new community health center site must add each such site to the recipient's established service area for the purpose of extending federal FQHC or FQHC Look-Alike status to the new site in accordance with federal regulations.

(Source: P.A. 96-37, eff. 7-13-09.)