FIRST REGULAR SESSION
97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES BURLISON (Sponsor), FREDERICK, FRAKER, NEELY AND LICHTENEGGER (Co-sponsors).
2058H.02I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapters 135 and 436, RSMo, by adding thereto two new sections relating to the Compassionate Care Act.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapters 135 and 436, RSMo, are amended by adding thereto two new sections, to be known as sections 135.1615 and 436.090, to read as follows:
135.1615. 1. As used in this section, the following terms mean:
(1) "Contribution", a donation of cash, stock, bonds, other marketable securities, or real property;
(2) “Designated health care professional”, a registered health care professional within the meaning of the law, licensed to practice medicine or surgery in the state of Missouri under chapter 334, affiliated with a qualified organization for the purpose of providing discounted medical services to qualified patients, and who does not perform, induce, or refer for abortions and does not hold himself or herself out as performing, inducing, or referring for abortions;
(3) "Director", the director of the department of revenue;
(4) "Qualified organization", an organization operating in this state that meets the definition of a charitable organization which is exempt from federal income tax and whose Missouri unrelated business taxable income, if any, would be subject to the state income tax imposed under chapter 143;
(5) “Qualified patient”, an individual seeking medical services who pays for medical services without any contributions from insurance, Medicare, or Medicaid;
(6) "State tax liability", in the case of a business taxpayer, any liability incurred by such taxpayer under the provisions of chapters 143, 147, 148, and 153, exclusive of the provisions relating to the withholding of tax as provided for in sections 143.191 to 143.265 and related provisions, and, in the case of an individual taxpayer, any liability incurred by such taxpayer under the provisions of chapter 143;
(7) "Taxpayer", one of the following:
(a) A person, firm, partner in a firm or corporation, a shareholder in an S corporation, or a member in a limited liability company doing business in Missouri and subject to the state income tax imposed by the provisions of chapter 143;
(b) A corporation subject to the annual corporation franchise tax imposed by the provisions of chapter 147, including any charitable organization that is exempt from federal income tax and whose Missouri unrelated business taxable income, if any, would be subject to the state income tax imposed under chapter 143;
(c) An insurance company paying an annual tax on its gross premium receipts in this state;
(d) A financial institution paying taxes to the state of Missouri or any political subdivision of this state under the provisions of chapter 148;
(e) An express company which pays an annual tax on its gross receipts in this state under chapter 153; or
(f) An individual subject to the state income tax imposed by the provisions of chapter 143.
2. For all tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2014, a taxpayer shall be allowed to claim a tax credit against the taxpayer's state tax liability in an amount equal to fifty percent of the amount such taxpayer contributed to a qualified organization.
3. The director shall establish a procedure by which a taxpayer can determine whether an organization has been classified as a qualified organization. The department shall issue a tax credit certificate to the taxpayer in the appropriate amount. Qualified organizations shall be permitted to decline a contribution from a taxpayer.
4. The amount of the tax credit claimed shall not exceed the amount of the taxpayer's state tax liability for the taxable year for which the credit is claimed. Any tax credit that cannot be claimed in the taxable year in which the contribution was made may be carried over to the next three succeeding taxable years until the full credit has been claimed.
5. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any taxpayer may sell, assign, exchange, convey, or otherwise transfer tax credits allowed in this section.
6. The cumulative amount of tax credits claimed by all the taxpayers contributing to a qualified organization in any one calendar year shall not exceed fifty million dollars. Tax credits shall be issued in the order contributions are received.
7. Each qualified organization shall provide information to the director concerning both the identity of each taxpayer making a contribution to such qualified organization and who is claiming a tax credit under this section and the amount of the contribution. The director shall be subject to the confidentiality and penalty provisions of section 32.057 relating to the disclosure of tax information.
8. A qualified patient seeking medical services may contact a qualified organization to arrange to receive medical services from a designated health care professional under this section, and shall pay an amount agreed upon by the parties for the medical services received.
9. Under section 23.253 of the Missouri sunset act:
(1) The provisions of the new program authorized under this section shall automatically sunset six years after December 31, 2013; and
(2) If such program is reauthorized, the program authorized under this section shall automatically sunset twelve years after the effective date of the reauthorization of this section; and
(3) This section shall terminate on December thirty-first of the calendar year immediately following the calendar year in which a program authorized under this section is sunset.
436.090. 1. Except as otherwise prohibited under federal or state law, any health care professional may contract with a patient regarding the liability limits of such health care professional in the provision of services, including, but not limited to, wrongful death, reimbursement for health care services, economic and noneconomic damages, litigation costs, and other related costs if such patient pays for the medical services without any contributions from insurance, Medicare, or Medicaid.
2. The recovery limits for punitive damages under section 510.265 and noneconomic damages under section 538.210, and all other statutory limits for the recovery of noneconomic damages for wrongful death, medical malpractice, and improper health care actions, shall not apply to contracts entered into between a health care professional and a patient under this section.
3. Nothing in this section shall be construed as mandating or otherwise requiring such contract between a health care professional and patient as a condition precedent to receiving health care services.
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