Bill Summary for S 372 (2023-2024)

Printer-friendly: Click to view

Summary date: 

Mar 27 2023

Bill Information:

View NCGA Bill Details2023-2024 Session
Senate Bill 372 (Public) Filed Monday, March 27, 2023
AN ACT APPROPRIATING FUNDS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DIVISION OF PUBLIC HEALTH, TO PROVIDE GRANTS TO NONPROFIT COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS FOR THE PURCHASE AND DISTRIBUTION OF LONG-ACTING REVERSIBLE CONTRACEPTIVES.
Intro. by Batch, Garrett, Marcus.

View: All Summaries for BillTracking:

Bill summary

Appropriates $5 million from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health for 2023-24 to be used to award grants to nonprofit community health centers for the purchase and provision of long-acting reversible contraceptives for underserved, uninsured, or medically indigent patients. Defines long-acting reversible contraceptives to mean a drug or device that meets four specified criteria, including that the design is a temporary method of birth control that can be discontinued and is an FDA approved contraceptive. Effective July 1, 2023.