GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
S 1
SENATE BILL 352
Short Title: Community Health Center Grants for LARCs. (Public)
Sponsors: Senators Chitlik, Murdock, and Bradley (Primary Sponsors).
Referred to: Rules and Operations of the Senate
March 20, 2025
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT APPROPRIATING FUNDS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND H UMAN 2
SERVICES, DIVISION OF PUBLIC HEALTH, TO PROVIDE GRANTS TO NONPROFIT 3
COMMUNITY HEALTH CEN TERS 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