A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO REDUCE PRETERM BIRTHS, AS RECOMMENDED BY THE CHILD FATALITY TASK FORCE.
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 one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year.  These funds shall be used to provide education related to the prevention of premature births for community‑based health care providers and pregnant women in need and to purchase 17 hydroxy progesterone (17P) for eligible low‑income and minority women.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2008.