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Read. Follow. Verify.North Carolina appropriates $2.5 million annually for long-acting reversible contraceptives at community health centers
Last action · April 3, 2025: Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House (House action)Sponsors: Monika Johnson-Hostler and 4 others
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What This Bill Would Do
North Carolina appropriates $2,500,000 in for each year of the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health, beginning July 1, 2025. These funds are awarded competitively as grants to nonprofit community health centers exclusively to purchase and distribute for underserved, uninsured, or medically indigent patients.
Expands access to specific prescription birth control methods for low-income and uninsured residents through state-funded grants to nonprofit health clinics.
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.
Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health
Receives state appropriations and administers competitive grant distributions to community health centers.
Nonprofit community health centers
Eligible to apply for competitive grant funds to purchase and distribute contraceptives.
Underserved, uninsured, or medically indigent patients
Gain access to state-funded long-acting reversible contraceptives prescribed by authorized health care providers.
Key Facts
- Appropriates $2,500,000 in recurring funds for each year of the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium from the General Fund.
- Funds are allocated to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health.
- Grants are awarded on a competitive basis to nonprofit community health centers.
- Grant recipients must use all funds to purchase and make available long-acting reversible contraceptives.
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- Contraceptives are intended for underserved, uninsured, or medically indigent patients.
- Eligible contraceptives must provide effective contraception for an extended period without depending on user action, be temporarily reversible, be FDA-approved, and be obtained via a valid prescription.
- The act becomes effective July 1, 2025.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Currently in committee. The next step in the legislative lifecycle is Floor Vote.
Procedural history
5 actions- Apr 3, 2025HouseRe-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
- Apr 3, 2025HouseWithdrawn From Com
- Apr 3, 2025HouseRef to the Com on Appropriations, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
- Apr 3, 2025HousePassed 1st Reading
- Apr 2, 2025HouseIntroducedFiled
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance60How much this matters to a regular citizen
- Controversy45Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz30Current news / social attention level
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