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NC S874

Bill

Status

Introduced

5/2/2024

Primary Sponsor

Sydney Batch

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Origin

Senate

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
  • Appropriates $8,500,000 in recurring funds for fiscal year 2024-2025 to the same department
  • Directs funds to be awarded on a competitive basis to local health departments and nonprofit community health centers for purchasing long-acting reversible contraceptives
  • Requires grant recipients to make contraceptives available to underserved, uninsured, or medically indigent patients
  • Defines long-acting reversible contraceptives as FDA-approved birth control methods that are effective for extended periods, reversible, and obtained by prescription
  • 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 and Operations of the Senate

5/6/2024

Committee Referrals

Rules and Operations of the Senate5/6/2024

Full Bill Text

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