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Read. Follow. Verify.North Carolina directs Department of Military and Veterans Affairs to establish statewide eTMS pilot program for veterans and first responders
Last action · May 7, 2025: Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate (Senate action)Sponsors: David Willis and 34 others
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What This Bill Would Do
The North Carolina Department of Military and Veterans Affairs must select a provider to establish a statewide pilot program offering electroencephalogram combined transcranial magnetic stimulation (eTMS) treatment to veterans, first responders, and their immediate families experiencing conditions such as posttraumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injuries, and substance use disorders.
Establishes a statewide treatment network offering specialized brain and mental health therapies, peer support, and clinical monitoring for state veterans, first responders, and their families, with outcomes and state expenditures due to legislative oversight bodies by September 15, 2026.
Who It Would Affect
Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Veterans
Veterans experiencing specified mental health, trauma, or substance use conditions become eligible to receive eTMS treatment, peer-to-peer support, and counseling through the statewide pilot program.
First responders
First responders are given access to eTMS treatments, portable magnetic stimulation devices, wellness programming, and neurophysiological monitoring under the pilot program.
Immediate family members of veterans and first responders
Spouses, children, stepchildren, parents, and stepparents gain access to treatment and support networks provided through the program.
Department of Military and Veterans Affairs
The Department is tasked with selecting a provider, evaluating outcomes, potentially adopting implementation rules, and receiving final treatment and expenditure reports.
Key Facts
- The Department of Military and Veterans Affairs shall select a provider to establish a statewide pilot program making eTMS treatment available for veterans, first responders, and their immediate family members.
- Eligible conditions treated under the pilot include substance use disorders, mental illness, sleep disorders, traumatic brain injuries, sexual trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder, concussions, other brain trauma, and human performance quality of life issues.
- Immediate family members eligible for the program include a spouse, child, stepchild, parent, or stepparent.
- The selected provider must demonstrate a history of serving veteran and first responder populations statewide and establish a network providing both in-person and off-site care.
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- The provider may utilize nonmedical portable magnetic stimulation devices to improve access for underserved populations in remote areas or as pre-post treatment tools.
- The pilot program must include a peer-to-peer support network, mandatory neurophysiological monitoring, counseling, wellness programming, and symptom monitoring for substance use and mental health.
- Treatment protocols must incorporate EEG-based stimulation frequency and intensity modulation on days 0, 10, and 20, alongside motor threshold testing and biometrics.
- The provider must collect and report treatment protocols, outcomes, bio-data metrics, and all state fund expenditures to the Department and legislative oversight bodies by September 15, 2026.
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Procedural history
16 actions- May 7, 2025SenateRef To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate
- May 7, 2025SenatePassed 1st Reading
- May 7, 2025SenateRegular Message Received From House
- May 7, 2025HouseRegular Message Sent To Senate
- May 6, 2025HousePassed 3rd Reading
- May 6, 2025HousePassed 2nd Reading
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- May 1, 2025HousePlaced On Cal For 05/06/2025
- May 1, 2025HouseCal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- May 1, 2025HouseReptd Fav
- Apr 30, 2025HouseRe-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
- Apr 30, 2025HouseReptd Fav
- Apr 8, 2025HouseRe-ref Com On Health
- Apr 8, 2025HouseReptd Fav
- Apr 1, 2025HouseRef to the Com on Homeland Security and Military and Veterans Affairs, if favorable, Health, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
- Apr 1, 2025HousePassed 1st Reading
- Mar 27, 2025HouseIntroducedFiled
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Second Reading
Total
115
- Yes
- 107
- No
- 0
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 8
- Abstain
- 0
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State-Funded eTMS Pilot for First Responders and Veterans
The state is formally establishing a statewide clinical network and monitoring protocol focused on delivering advanced transcranial magnetic stimulation for trauma and substance use disorders among veterans and first responders.
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0–100- Significance60How much this matters to a regular citizen
- Controversy15Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz40Current news / social attention level
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