Bill Summary for S 874 (2023-2024)

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May 2 2024

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View NCGA Bill Details2023-2024 Session
Senate Bill 874 (Public) Filed Thursday, May 2, 2024
AN ACT APPROPRIATING FUNDS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DIVISION OF PUBLIC HEALTH, TO AWARD ADDITIONAL GRANTS TO LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENTS AND NONPROFIT COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS FOR THE PURCHASE AND DISTRIBUTION OF LONG-ACTING REVERSIBLE CONTRACEPTIVES.
Intro. by Batch, Smith.

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Identical to H 954, filed 5/1/24.

Amends Section 4.1 of SL 2023-14 as follows. Appropriates $3.5 million in recurring funds for 2023-24 and $8.5 million in recurring funds for 2024-25 (was, $3.5 million in each year of the 2023-25 fiscal biennium) from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health, to be used to award grants to local health departments and nonprofit community health centers for the purchase and provision of long-acting reversible contraceptives for underserved, uninsured, or medically indigent patients. Effective retroactively to July 1, 2023.