INS §12693.91: (a) The State Department of Health Services, in conjunction with the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board, the County Medical Services Program board, and the Rural Health Policy Council, may develop a

(a) The State Department of Health Services, in conjunction with the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board, the County Medical Services Program board, and the Rural Health Policy Council, may develop and administer up to five demonstration projects in rural areas that are likely to contain a significant level of uninsured children, including seasonal and migratory worker dependents. In addition to any other funds provided pursuant to this section the grants for demonstration projects may include funds pursuant to subdivision (d). (b) The purpose of the demonstration projects shall be to fund rural collaborative health care networks to alleviate unique problems of access to health care in rural areas. (c) The State Department of Health Services, in conjunction with the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board and Rural Health Policy Council, shall establish the criteria and standards for eligibility to be used in requests for proposals or requests for application, the application review process, determining the maximum amount and number of grants to be awarded, preference and priority of projects, and compliance monitoring after receiving comment from the public. (d) The grants may include funds for purchasing equipment, making capital expenditures, and providing infrastructure, including, but not limited to, salaries and payment of leaseholds. The funds under this subdivision may only be awarded to qualified eligible health care entities as determined by the State Department of Health Services. Title to any equipment or capital improvement purchased or acquired with grant funds shall vest in the grantee for the public good and not the state. Capital expenditures shall not include the acquisition of land. Notwithstanding subdivision (e), this subdivision shall be implemented only when funds are appropriated in the annual Budget Act or another statute to fund the cost of implementing this subdivision. (e) This section shall only become operative upon federal approval of the state plan or subsequent amendments for the program and approval of federal financial participation.