GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
S D
SENATE BILL DRS55012-MGa-98A
Short Title: Community Health Center Grants for LARCs. (Public)
Sponsors: Senators Chitlik, Murdock, and Bradley (Primary Sponsors).
Referred to:
*DRS55012 -MGa-98A*
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT APPROPRIATING FUNDS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 2
SERVICES, DIVISION OF PUBLIC HEALTH, TO PROVIDE GRANTS TO NONPROFIT 3
COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS FOR THE PURCHASE AND DISTRIBUTION OF 4
LONG-ACTING REVERSIBLE CONTRACEPTIVES. 5
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 6
SECTION 1. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of 7
Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health, the sum of two million five hundred 8
thousand dollars ($2,500,000) in recurring funds for each year of the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium 9
to be used to award grants on a competitive basis to nonprofit community health centers. 10
Nonprofit community health centers selected to receive these grant funds shall use all such funds 11
to purchase and make available long-acting reversible contraceptives for underserved, uninsured, 12
or medically indigent patients. As used in this section, the term "long-acting reversible 13
contraceptives" means a contraceptive drug or device that meets all of the following criteria: 14
(1) Is a method of birth control that provides effective contraception for an 15
extended period of time without depending upon user action. 16
(2) Is designed as a temporary method of birth control that the user can elect to 17
discontinue. 18
(3) Has been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for 19
use as a contraceptive. 20
(4) Is obtained under a prescription written by a health care provider authorized 21
to prescribe medications under the laws of this State. 22
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 2025. 23
FILED SENATE
Mar 19, 2025
S.B. 352
PRINCIPAL CLERK