Bill Summary for S 840 (2023-2024)

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May 3 2024

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View NCGA Bill Details2023-2024 Session
Senate Bill 840 (Public) Filed Thursday, May 2, 2024
AN ACT APPROPRIATING FUNDS TO SUPPORT LACTATION CONSULTANT TRAINING PROGRAMS AT NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL &AMP TECHNICAL STATE UNIVERSITY AND JOHNSON C. SMITH UNIVERSITY.
Intro. by Murdock, Salvador.

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Appropriates $500,000 for 2024-25 from the General Fund to the UNC Board of Governors for recruiting, training, and retaining a diverse workforce of lactation consultants in North Carolina by supporting the infrastructure and sustainability of lactation consultant training programs at Historically Black Colleges and Universities located within the State, to be distributed equally between North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University and Johnson C. Smith University to cover costs of administering a lactation training program, including specified costs that include student aid. Requires the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities to give technical assistance to those two schools concerning developing training content, recruitment from historically marginalized populations to enroll, recruitment of historically underutilized providers to serve as teachers and preceptors, and identifying rural and medically underserved areas of the State experiencing a shortage of lactation consultants in order to recruit program graduates to work in these areas. Requires a report by May 1, 2026, to the specified NCGA committees on the benefits the state received due to the funding of the training programs. Sets out items that must be included in the report. Effective July 1, 2024.