GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2025

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HOUSE BILL 571

Short Title:      Funds for PTSD Treatment for Police Officers.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Representatives Paré, Reeder, Chesser, and Campbell (Primary Sponsors). For a complete list of sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly web site.
Referred to:	Appropriations, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House

April 1, 2025

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to appropriate funds to the department of public safety to establish a grant program to treat police offICers who have BEEN DIAGNOSED with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Safety the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) in nonrecurring funds for the 2025‑2026 fiscal year to assist the Department in establishing a grant program to treat police officers who have been diagnosed with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2025.