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H750 • 2025

Community Health Center Grants for LARCs.

Community Health Center Grants for LARCs.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Johnson-Hostler, Clark, Cervania, Dew, Helfrich
Last action
2025-04-03
Official status
Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
Effective date
2025-07-01

Plain English Breakdown

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Community Health Center Grants for LARCs.

Community Health Center Grants for LARCs.

What This Bill Does

  • Community Health Center Grants for LARCs.

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Bill History

  1. 2025-04-03 House

    Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House

  2. 2025-04-03 House

    Withdrawn From Com

  3. 2025-04-03 House

    Ref to the Com on Appropriations, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House

  4. 2025-04-03 House

    Passed 1st Reading

  5. 2025-04-02 House

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Community Health Center Grants for LARCs.

Current Bill Text

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
H 1
HOUSE BILL 750

Short Title: Community Health Center Grants for LARCs. (Public)
Sponsors: Representatives Johnson-Hostler and Clark (Primary Sponsors).
For a complete list of sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly web site.
Referred to: Appropriations, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
April 3, 2025
*H750-v-1*
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 CEN TERS FOR THE PURCHAS E AND DISTRIBUTION O F 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 Administrati on 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