A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE Department of Health and Human Services, DIVISION OF PUBLIC HEALTH, TO SUPPORT HEALTHY BEGINNINGS MINORITY INFANT MORTALITY PROJECTS, AND TO PROVIDE EDUCATION TO WOMEN REGARDING THE PREVENTION OF PRETERM BIRTHS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health, the sum of four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year. These funds shall be used to increase the number of Healthy Beginnings Minority Infant Mortality Projects from 14 to 17, to increase funding for each project, to add four new planning projects, and to expand four projects to better address chronic medical conditions before pregnancy occurs.
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health, the sum of one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year. These funds shall be used to provide education to women on the benefits of progesterone for those who have had preterm births and to purchase medication for eligible minority and low‑income women until the medication becomes readily available through the Medicaid Program.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.