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NC H954

Bill

Status

Introduced

5/1/2024

Primary Sponsor

Diamond Staton-Williams

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Origin

House of Representatives

2023-2024 Session

AI Summary

  • Appropriates $3,500,000 in recurring funds for fiscal year 2023-2024 to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health for competitive grants to local health departments and nonprofit community health centers.

  • Appropriates $8,500,000 in recurring funds for fiscal year 2024-2025 for the same purpose.

  • Grant recipients shall use funds to purchase and distribute long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) for underserved, uninsured, or medically indigent patients.

  • Defines long-acting reversible contraceptives as FDA-approved birth control methods that function without user action, are temporary and reversible, and are obtained by prescription from an authorized healthcare provider.

  • Effective retroactively to July 1, 2023.

Legislative Description

Community Health Center Grants for LARCs

Appropriations; Budgeting; Clinics; Dhhs; Family Planning; Funding; Grants; Health Depts.; Health Services; Local Government; Pu

Last Action

Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House

5/2/2024

Committee Referrals

Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House5/2/2024

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