| Shorttitle: | Health Center Consolidation Act |
| Othershorttitles: | Health Centers Consolidation Act of 1995 |
| Longtitle: | An Act to amend title III of the Public Health Service Act to consolidate and reauthorize provisions relating to health centers, and for other purposes. |
| Colloquialacronym: | HCCA |
| Nickname: | Health Center Consolidation Act of 1996 |
| Enacted By: | 104th |
| Effective Date: | October 11, 1996 |
| Public Law Url: | https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-104publ299/pdf/PLAW-104publ299.pdf |
| Cite Public Law: | 104–299 |
| Title Amended: | 42 U.S.C.: Public Health and Social Welfare |
| Sections Amended: | § 254b et seq. |
| Leghisturl: | http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d104:SN01044:@@@R |
| Introducedin: | Senate |
| Introducedby: | Nancy Kassebaum (R–KS) |
| Introduceddate: | July 17, 1995 |
| Committees: | Senate Labor and Human Resources |
| Passedbody1: | Senate |
| Passeddate1: | September 20, 1996 |
| Passedvote1: | Passed Unanimous Consent |
| Passedbody2: | House |
| Passeddate2: | September 27, 1996 |
| Passedvote2: | Passed Voice Vote |
| Signedpresident: | William J. Clinton |
| Signeddate: | October 11, 1996 |
The Health Center Consolidation Act of 1996 in the United States is commonly also called Section 330. The Act brings together various funding mechanisms for the country's community health facilities, such as migrant/seasonal farmworker health centers, healthcare for the homeless, health centers and health centers for residents of public housing. Previously, each of these organizations were provided grants under numerous other mechanisms.
The S. 1044 legislation was passed by the 104th U.S. Congressional session and enacted into law by the 42nd President of the United States Bill Clinton on October 11, 1996.[1]
Web site: Federal Health Centers Program - Report RL32046 . English . Barbara . June 13, 2008 . Congressional Research Service (CRS) . WikiLeaks.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140416175303/http://crs.wikileaks-press.org/RL32046.pdf . April 16, 2014 .