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Committee tables bill to raise and expand rural health-care tax credit amid questions about caps and effectiveness
Summary
House Bill 142, which would increase rural health-care practitioner tax-credit amounts and expand eligibility to certain underserved urban areas, drew support from health and business groups but questions about caps and effectiveness led the committee to table the bill after a motion to table was adopted.
Representative Silva presented House Bill 142 as a change to the rural health-care practitioner tax credit that would increase credit amounts and expand the definition of eligible areas to include underserved pockets in urban centers such as Albuquerque and Las Cruces while keeping higher credit levels for rural providers.
Christina Fisher of Think New Mexico and Matthew Stackpole of the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce testified in support, with Fisher noting that the…
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