Rep. Clark files bill in North Carolina House to fund contraceptive grants

A new bill filed by State Rep. Clark in the North Carolina House seeks to provide grants to nonprofit health centers for distributing long-acting reversible contraceptives to underserved patients, according to the North Carolina State House.

The bill, filed as HB 750 on April 2 during the 2025 regular session, was formally listed with the short title: ‘Community Health Center Grants for LARCs.’

The following is our breakdown, based on the actual bill text, and may include interpretation to clarify its provisions.

In essence, this bill allocates $2.5 million annually from the General Fund to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health, for the 2025-27 fiscal biennium to provide grants to nonprofit community health centers. These grants are intended to be distributed on a competitive basis. The recipient centers must use the funds to purchase and distribute long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) to underserved, uninsured, or medically indigent patients. LARCs are defined in the bill as FDA-approved, prescription-based contraceptive methods that offer extended and reversible birth control without requiring user action. The effective date of this act is July 1, 2025.

A related bill, SB 352, was also filed in the North Carolina Senate, introduced by Sen. Sophia Chitlik (and two others) on March 19, 2025.

Of the two sponsors of this bill, Clark proposed the most bills (19) during the 2025 regular session.

Bills in North Carolina follow a multi-step process before becoming law. A lawmaker starts by filing a bill, which is assigned to a committee for review. The bill must be read three times in each chamber. If one chamber changes the bill after the other passes it, both must agree on the final version. Once both chambers approve the same bill, it goes to the governor, who has 10 days (or 30 if the legislature is not in session) to sign, veto, or let it become law without a signature.

You can read more about the bills and other measures here.

Clark graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2007 with a BA and again in 2012 from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Clark, a Democrat, was elected to the North Carolina State House in 2024 to represent the state’s 57th House district, replacing previous state representative Ashton Clemmons.