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S663 • 2025
End Menstrual Poverty Act.
This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.
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End Menstrual Poverty Act.
Re-ref Com On Appropriations/Base Budget
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Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate
Passed 1st Reading
Filed
End Menstrual Poverty Act.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA SESSION 2025 S 1 SENATE BILL 663 Short Title: End Menstrual Poverty Act. (Public) Sponsors: Senators Murdock and Chitlik (Primary Sponsors). Referred to: Rules and Operations of the Senate March 26, 2025 *S663-v-1* A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1 AN ACT TO INCREASE A CCESS TO FEMININE HY GIENE PRODUCTS IN NO RTH 2 CAROLINA DIAPER BANK S AND TO INCREASE FU NDS FOR THE FEMININE 3 HYGIENE PROGRAM. 4 The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 5 SECTION 1. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of 6 Health and Human Services the sum of three hundred fifty thousand dollars ($350,000) in 7 nonrecurring funds for the 2025 -2026 fiscal year to be allocated to the Diaper Bank of North 8 Carolina, a nonprofit organization that collects and distributes diapers and other personal hygiene 9 products to assist those in need and to increase the accessibility of feminine hygiene products in 10 local diaper banks throughout the State. 11 SECTION 2. There is appropriated from the General Fund t o the Department of 12 Public Instruction the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) in recurring funds for the 13 2025-2026 fiscal year to fund the Feminine Hygiene Products Grant Program under 14 G.S. 115C-377. 15 SECTION 3. This act becomes effective July 1, 2025. 16