Bill Summary for S 352 (2025-2026)

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Mar 19 2025

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View NCGA Bill Details(link is external)2025-2026 Session
Senate Bill 352 (Public) Filed Wednesday, March 19, 2025
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 Chitlik, Murdock, Bradley.

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Appropriates $2.5 million in recurring funds from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health for each year of the 2025-27 fiscal biennium 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, 2025.