‘‘(3) is at or below a poverty level specified by 
the Secretary; and 
‘‘(4) is not eligible for health services under the 
program under title XVIII, XIX, or XXI of the So-
cial Security Act (relating to the Medicare program, 
the Medicaid program, and the State children’s 
health insurance program, respectively). 
‘‘(c) QUALIFIED GRANT EXPENDITURES.—A grant 
may be made under subsection (a) for a project only if 
the applicant involved agrees that the grant will be ex-
pended to assist specialists that are participants in the 
network involved through any or all of the following 
means: 
‘‘(1) Paying nominal administrative or fees to 
the participants for the costs of providing services to 
eligible individuals. 
‘‘(2) Assisting with the cost of training primary 
care practitioners to manage the chronic conditions 
that are most often treated by the network special-
ists. 
‘‘(3) Assisting participants with the costs of 
providing fees to recruit specialists to practice in the 
service area of the project. 
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‘‘(4) Assisting with the costs of operating a 
community clinic staffed by volunteer network spe-
cialists. 
‘‘(5) Assisting participants with the costs of in-
stalling or operating information technology that is 
of benefit to patients, such as technology to avoid 
medical errors or to facilitate the authorized elec-
tronic transfer of the health records of eligible indi-
viduals. 
‘‘(6) Paying for necessary prescription drug 
costs for necessary treatment prescribed by network 
specialists. 
‘‘(7) Such additional means as the Secretary 
may authorize. 
‘‘(d) CERTAIN
REQUIREMENTS
FOR
GRANT.—A 
grant may be made under subsection (a) for a project only 
if the applicant involved— 
‘‘(1) has defined a service area for the project; 
‘‘(2) has formed a consortium of various com-
munity members, leaders, and organizations in such 
area; 
‘‘(3) has ensured that the consortium has estab-
lished a set of unified goals for the project; 
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‘‘(4) has conducted the basic level of demo-
graphic 
research 
described 
in 
section 
330M(c)(1)(D); 
‘‘(5) has a plan for managing the care of eligi-
ble individuals with chronic illness; and 
‘‘(6) has a plan for evaluating the project on an 
interim basis, not less frequently than once each 
year. 
‘‘(e) MATCHING FUNDS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—With respect to the costs of 
the project to be carried out under subsection (a) by 
an applicant, a grant under such subsection may be 
made only if the applicant agrees to make available 
(directly or through donations from public or private 
entities) non-Federal contributions toward such 
costs in an amount that is not less than 1⁄3 of such 
costs ($1 for each $2 provided in the grant). 
‘‘(2) DETERMINATION
OF
AMOUNT
CONTRIB-
UTED.—Non-Federal contributions required in para-
graph (1) may be in cash or in kind, fairly evalu-
ated, including plant, equipment, or services. 
Amounts provided by the Federal Government, or 
services assisted or subsidized to any significant ex-
tent by the Federal Government, may not be in-
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cluded in determining the amount of such non-Fed-
eral contributions. 
‘‘(f) APPLICATION FOR GRANT.—A grant may be 
made under subsection (a) only if an application for the 
grant is submitted to the Secretary and the application 
is in such form, is made in such manner, and contains 
such agreements, assurances, and information as the Sec-
retary determines to be necessary to carry out this section. 
‘‘(g) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—For the 
purpose of making grants under subsection (a), there is 
authorized to be appropriated $9,000,000 in the aggregate 
for the fiscal years 2007 through 2013, of which there 
are authorized to be appropriated amounts as follows: 
‘‘(1) For each of the fiscal years 2007 and 
2008, $500,000. 
‘‘(2) For each of the fiscal years 2009 and 
2010, $1,000,000. 
‘‘(3) For each of the fiscal years 2011 through 
2013, $2,000,000. 
‘‘SEC. 330O. CLEARINGHOUSE FOR INFORMATION ON COM-
MUNITY-INITIATED PROJECTS TO PROVIDE 
HEALTH CARE COVERAGE TO UNINSURED IN-
DIVIDUALS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall make an 
award of a grant or contract for the establishment and 
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operation of a clearinghouse to collect and make available, 
on a national basis, information on projects under sections 
330M and 330N and similar projects that are community- 
initiated (referred to in this section as ‘access projects’). 
‘‘(b) CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS.—The Secretary shall 
ensure that the information collected and made available 
under subsection (a) by the Clearinghouse includes the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(1) A database identifying technical-assistance 
experts who are or have been involved in the plan-
ning or operation of access projects. 
‘‘(2) Information regarding the success and 
progress of access projects, including— 
‘‘(A) information on best-practices identi-
fied for such projects; 
‘‘(B) the number of individuals who lacked 
health care coverage prior to receiving such cov-
erage through the projects; 
‘‘(C) the number of individuals served by 
the projects who have chronic conditions that 
are managed by the projects; 
‘‘(D) the economic impact of the projects 
for businesses in the communities in which the 
projects operated; and 
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