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S277 • 2025

NC AHEC Recruitment & Retention Funds.

NC AHEC Recruitment & Retention Funds.

Education
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Grafstein
Last action
2025-03-13
Official status
Re-ref Com On Appropriations/Base Budget
Effective date
2025-07-01

Plain English Breakdown

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NC AHEC Recruitment & Retention Funds.

NC AHEC Recruitment & Retention Funds.

What This Bill Does

  • NC AHEC Recruitment & Retention Funds.

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Bill History

  1. 2025-03-13 Senate

    Re-ref Com On Appropriations/Base Budget

  2. 2025-03-13 Senate

    Withdrawn From Com

  3. 2025-03-13 Senate

    Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate

  4. 2025-03-13 Senate

    Passed 1st Reading

  5. 2025-03-12 Senate

    Filed

Official Summary Text

NC AHEC Recruitment & Retention Funds.

Current Bill Text

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
S 1
SENATE BILL 277

Short Title: NC AHEC Recruitment & Retention Funds. (Public)
Sponsors: Senator Grafstein (Primary Sponsor).
Referred to: Rules and Operations of the Senate
March 13, 2025
*S277-v-1*
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO APPROPRIAT E FUNDS TO THE NORTH CAROLINA AREA HEALT H 2
EDUCATION CENTERS PR OGRAM TO IMPROVE REC RUITMENT, TRAINING, 3
AND RETENTION OF MED ICAL STUDENTS AND ME DICAL PROFESSIONALS IN 4
RURAL AREAS. 5
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 6
SECTION 1. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Board of Governors 7
of The University of North Carolina for the 2025-2026 fiscal year the sum of seven hundred fifty 8
thousand dollars ($750,000) in recurring funds to be allocated to the University of North Carolina 9
at Chapel Hill for the North Carolina Area Health Education Centers Program (NC AHEC). NC 10
AHEC shall use these funds to improve recruitment, training, and retention of medical students 11
and medical professionals in rural areas of North Carolina by doing all of the following: 12
(1) Regularly convening all area health education centers and other relevant 13
stakeholders to share information and establish best practices. 14
(2) Establishing a statewide, publicly accessible database of the information 15
shared and established pursuant to subdivision (1) of this section. 16
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 2025. 17