Health and Human Services

Session Year 2023

All Health and Human Services Summaries
Session Law SlSort1 SLSort2 Bill BillSort1 BillSort2 Summary
SL 2023-7 2023 0007 H76 H 0076 Access to Healthcare Options.
SL 2023-129 2023 0129 H125 H 0125 North Carolina Health and Human Services Workforce Act.
SL 2023-65 2023 0065 H190 H 0190 Department of Health and Human Services Revisions.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 4.10: Transformational Investments in North Carolina Health.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 5.8: Medical Freedom/COVID-19 Vaccinations.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 7.36: School Safety Grants.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 8A.14: Primary Care Medicine and Psychiatry Targeted Assistance Program.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9A.1: Conforming Parity Changes Pertaining to the State-County Special Assistance In-Home Program.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9B.1: Reports by Non-State Entities on the Use of Directed Grant Funds.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9B.2: Community Health Grant Program.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9B.3: Funds for North Carolina Dental Society Foundation's Missions of Mercy Dental Clinics .
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9B.4: Expansion of the North Carolina Loan Repayment Program/Incentives for the Recruitment and Retention of Health Providers in Outpatient Primary Care Settings in Rural, Underserved Areas.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9B.5: Expansion of the Medical Assistant Apprenticeship Initiative Pilot Program.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9B.6: Transfer of Positions to the Department of Public Instruction for the Care and Maintenance of Governor Morehead School for the Blind.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9B.7A: Funds for Telehealth Infrastructure Grant Program.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9B.9: Management Flexibility for the Department of Health and Human Services to Expend Certain ARPA Temporary Savings Fund Appropriations for Purposes Related to Child and Family Well-Being.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9D.1: NC Pre-K Programs/Standards for Four- and Five-Star Rated Facilities .
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9D.3: Child Care Subsidy Rates.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9D.4: Child Care Allocation Formula.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9D.5: Smart Start Initiatives.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9D.6: Smart Start Literacy Initiative/Dolly Parton's Imagination Library.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9D.8: Increase Provision of In-Home Child Care/Pilot Program.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9D.9: Tri-Share Pilot Program.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9D.10: Increase Capacity/Family Child Care Homes.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9D.11: Extend Compensation Grants for Child Care Programs.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9E.7: Ensuring Certain Medicaid Receipts .
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9E.8: Medicaid Rebase Tracking, Transparency, and Predictability .
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9E.9: Use of the Medicaid Transformation Fund for Medicaid Transformation Needs .
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9E.10: Expand North Carolina Innovations Waiver Slots.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9E.11: Medicaid Skilled Nursing Facility Rates.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9E.12: Medicaid Personal Care Services Rates.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9E.12A: Increase Private Duty Nursing Rates.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9E.13B: Rates for Durable Medical Equipment .
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9E.15: Increase Wages of Direct Care Workers .
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9E.16: Behavioral Health and Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities Tailored Plan Updates .
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9E.17: Expedited Medicaid Preferred Drug List Review for Drugs Treating Serious Mental Illness .
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9E.18: Relatives Providing Care to Minors on the Innovations Waiver.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9E.19: Further Adjust Implementation Date for Requiring Local Management Entity/Managed Care Organizations to Pay for Behavioral Health Services Provided to Beneficiaries Awaiting Hospital Discharge .
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9E.19A: Draft Serious Mental Illness/Serious Emotional Disturbance Waiver .
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9E.19B: Psychiatry Access Line .
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9E.20: Prepaid Health Plans Performance Metrics.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9E.21: Additional Medicaid Services for Foster Youth.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9E.22: Children and Families Specialty Plan.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9E.23: Agency Requested Changes / Division of Health Benefits.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9E.24: Ensure Adherence to Medicaid State Plan/ Reimbursements for Ambulatory Surgical Centers.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9E.25: Increase Medicaid Personal Needs Allowance .
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9E.26: Continue to Address the Reimbursement Methodology Used for Services Provided to Senior Dual Eligibles.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9E.27: Healthcare Access and Stabilization Program / Freestanding Psychiatric Hospitals .
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9E.28: Primary Care Payment Reform Task Force.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9F.1: Temporary Certificate of Need Exemption.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9F.10: Division of Health Service Regulation Report.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9F.11: New Rural Emergency Hospital Designation.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9G.1: Single-Stream Funding for Division of Mental Health/Developmental Disabilities/Substance Use Services Community Services.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9G.1A: Maximize Ability to Stabilize the Behavioral Health Workforce in State Facilities.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9G.2: Local Inpatient Psychiatric Beds or Bed Days.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9G.2B: Justice-Related Behavioral Health Programs.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9G.3: Funds for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Veterans Program.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9G.5: Start-Up Funds for Wilkes Recovery Revolution, Inc. .
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9G.6: Workforce Development Funds for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9G.6A: Building A Safety Net Through an Accountable System of Care Focused on Substance Use and Mental Health Issues in the Workplace/Pilot Program.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9G.7A: Agency Requested Changes / Behavioral Health.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9G.8: Use of Opioid Settlement Funds.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9G.9: Report on Implementation Status of New Electronic Health Records System at State Psychiatric Hospitals.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9H.1: Local Health Departments/Competitive Grant Process to Improve Maternal and Child Health.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9H.2: Report on Premium Assistance Program with AIDS Drug Assistance Program.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9H.3: Limitation on Use of State Funds for Abortion.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9H.4: Use of Juul Settlement Funds.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9H.7: Requirement and Funding for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to Conduct Toxicology Screening in all Child Death Cases Under the Jurisdiction of a Medical Examiner.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9H.8: Autopsy Requirement in Suspected Death by Distribution Cases; Increased Autopsy Fees; Funding to Increase the Autopsy Capacity of the Medical Examiner System; Strategic Plan for Improving the Medical Examiner System; Annual Autopsy Centers Report.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9H.10: South Piedmont Regional Autopsy Center Funds.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9H.10A: East Carolina University Regional Autopsy Center.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9H.11: Carolina Pregnancy Care Fellowship.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9H.12: Statewide Continuum of Care Program.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9H.15(a)-(d): Establishment and Funding of the State Office of Child Fatality Prevention within the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9H.15(e): Transition Plan for Shifting State Support of the Child Fatality Prevention System to the State Office of Child Fatality Prevention, Creating and Supporting a Centralized Data and Reporting System, and Restructuring Existing Child Death Review Teams.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9H.15(f)-(i): Modifications and Additions to Child Fatality System Statutes to Restructure Child Death Review Teams, Implement Participation in the National Fatality Review Case Reporting System, and Clarify the Functions of the North Carolina Child Fatality Task Force.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9H.15(j): Establishment of North Carolina Citizen Review Panels.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9J.1: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Benefit Implementation.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9J.2: Intensive Family Preservation Services Funding, Performance Enhancements, and Report .
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9J.3: Child Caring Institutions.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9J.4: Use of Foster Care Budget for Guardian Assistance Program.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9J.5: Child Welfare Postsecondary Support Program (NC Reach).
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9J.6: Federal Child Support Incentive Payments.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9J.7: Successful Transition/Foster Care Youth.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9J.8: Permanency Innovation Initiative/Codify Supplementation of Federal Funds Requirements.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9J.9: Report on Certain Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Expenditures.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9J.11: Child Advocacy Center Funds.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9J.12: Foster Care Trauma-Informed Assessment.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9J.13: Transportation of High-Risk Juveniles.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 9L.1: Conform Privilege Exemptions for Psychiatrists, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Clinical Mental Health Counselors, and Psychologists.
SL 2023-134 2023 0134 H259 H 0259 2023 Appropriations Act.: Sec. 30.9: Proposal for State-Based Health Benefits Exchange.
SL 2023-115 2023 0115 H323 H 0323 Retain Adult Developmental Vocational Rehabilitation Programs.
SL 2023-80 2023 0080 H344 H 0344 Mental Health Licensing Fair Practice Standards.
SL 2023-135 2023 0135 H361 H 0361 Require Report/Protection and Advocacy Agency.
SL 2023-141 2023 0141 H415 H 0415 Stop Addiction Fraud Ethics Act of 2023.
SL 2023-95 2023 0095 H484 H 0484 Mental Health Confidential Information Disclosure.
SL 2023-137 2023 0137 H600 H 0600 Regulatory Reform Act of 2023.: Sec. 9: Direct Department of Environmental Quality to Prepare a Human Health Risk Assessment for 1,4-Dioxane in Drinking Water and Evaluate Commercially Available Technology to Remove 1,4-Dioxane from Wastewater Effluent.
SL 2023-137 2023 0137 H600 H 0600 Regulatory Reform Act of 2023.: Sec. 29.1-29.3: Modify the Rules Related to the Inspection of Establishments that Prepare or Serve Food.
SL 2023-137 2023 0137 H600 H 0600 Regulatory Reform Act of 2023.: Sec. 30: Codify Existing Stroke Center Designations and Add a Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center Designation.
SL 2023-137 2023 0137 H600 H 0600 Regulatory Reform Act of 2023.: Sec. 31: State Ownership of Health Information Exchange Network Data.
SL 2023-137 2023 0137 H600 H 0600 Regulatory Reform Act of 2023.: Sec. 32: Voluntary Connection to North Carolina Health Information Exchange Network for Chiropractors.
SL 2023-137 2023 0137 H600 H 0600 Regulatory Reform Act of 2023.: Sec. 33: Expansion of the Homeschool Cooperative Exemption to the Definition of Child Care.
SL 2023-137 2023 0137 H600 H 0600 Regulatory Reform Act of 2023.: Sec. 53: Revisions Regarding the Lease or Sale of Hospital Facilities to or from For-Profit or Nonprofit Corporations or Other Business Entities by Municipalities and Hospital Authorities.
SL 2023-96 2023 0096 H674 H 0674 Child Advocacy Centers/Share Information.
SL 2023-111 2023 0111 H808 H 0808 Gender Transition/Minors.
SL 2023-14 2023 0014 S20 S 0020 Care for Women, Children, and Families Act - Part I.: Abortion Law Revisions.
SL 2023-14 2023 0014 S20 S 0020 Care for Women, Children, and Families Act - Part II.: Suitable Facilities for the Performance of Surgical Abortions.
SL 2023-14 2023 0014 S20 S 0020 Care for Women, Children, and Families Act - Part III.: Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection.
SL 2023-14 2023 0014 S20 S 0020 Care for Women, Children, and Families Act - Part IV.: Reforms to Reduce Infant and Maternal Mortality and Morbidity and Increase Access to Contraceptives .
SL 2023-14 2023 0014 S20 S 0020 Care for Women, Children, and Families Act - Part VI.: Child Permanency, Safe Surrender of Infants, Foster Care, Adoption, and Support for New Mothers.
SL 2023-14 2023 0014 S20 S 0020 Care for Women, Children, and Families Act - Part VII.: Expanding Access to Child Care.
SL 2023-83 2023 0083 S45 S 0045 Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor Supervision Requirements.
SL 2023-106 2023 0106 S49 S 0049 Parents' Bill of Rights.
SL 2023-3 2023 0003 S115 S 0115 Repurpose R.J. Blackley Center as Psychiatric Hospital.
SL 2023-15 2023 0015 S206 S 0206 Controlled Substances/Opioid/Vaccine/At Home Omnibus.
SL 2023-150 2023 0150 S274 S 0274 Senior Care Options.
SL 2023-40 2023 0040 S291 S 0291 Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) - Star Rating System Reform.
SL 2023-79 2023 0079 S389 S 0389 Parent Consent to Donate Blood/Midwifery Technical Corrections.
SL 2023-84 2023 0084 S507 S 0507 Chiropractic Preceptorship Modifications.
SL 2023-87 2023 0087 S722 S 0722 Child Care Flexibilities.