Bills

Regulate Hemp-Derived Consumables

Regulates consumable products derived from hemp, affecting producers, sellers, and consumers.

Healthcare Investment Act

Makes changes related to investment in health care, affecting health care organizations, investors, and patients.

Additional Medicaid Funds and Requirements

Provides additional Medicaid funding and adds requirements for the program. It affects Medicaid agencies, providers, and people receiving Medicaid services.

Improve IVC Process and Enhance Public Safety

Changes the involuntary commitment process and related public-safety measures, affecting people facing commitment and those involved in that process.

Health and Human Services Revisions

Revises state health and human services laws, affecting agencies, providers, programs, or residents covered by those laws.

Appt. Melanie Bush Division of Health Benefit

Appoints Melanie Bush to the Division of Health Benefits, affecting the division’s leadership.

Modify HC POA/Adv Direct

Changes rules for healthcare powers of attorney and advance directives, affecting people making medical-care instructions and those acting for them.

Strengthen Medicaid Provider Controls

Strengthens controls for Medicaid providers, affecting healthcare providers that participate in Medicaid.

Limit Use of AI Medicaid/Commercial Insurance

Limits how artificial intelligence may be used in Medicaid and commercial health insurance. It affects insurers, Medicaid administrators, health care providers, and patients.

Physical Therapy Practice Act Mods

Updates North Carolina’s laws governing physical therapy practice. It affects physical therapists, physical therapy providers, and patients.

Streamline Adult Care Home Inspections

Simplifies inspections of adult care homes, affecting those facilities, residents, and inspectors.

Healthcare Competition Reforms

Changes healthcare competition rules, affecting healthcare providers and patients.

GSC Advance Health Care Planning Documents

Addresses documents used to plan or communicate future health care decisions, affecting patients, families, health care providers, and others involved in advance care planning.

Age 21 Hemp-Derived Consumables/Kratom

Sets age 21 as the minimum age for hemp-derived consumable products and kratom, affecting buyers, sellers, and businesses handling those products.

Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA)

Expands who can look up a patient's prescription history in the state opioid database and requires pharmacies to report dispensed controlled substances within 24 hours instead of 72.

North Carolina Board of Integrative Therapies

Concerns the North Carolina Board of Integrative Therapies, affecting that board and the therapies it oversees; the title does not specify the changes.

Repeal CON for ASCs and Inpatient Rehab

Removes certificate-of-need requirements for ambulatory surgical centers and inpatient rehabilitation facilities, affecting health care providers, facilities, and patients.

Limit Medicaid Reimb. for Facility Fees

Limits Medicaid reimbursement for facility fees, affecting health-care facilities that charge those fees and Medicaid patients whose care includes them.

Dental Board Reform

Changes how the North Carolina dental board operates, affecting dentists, dental professionals, and the board.

Medicaid Prepaid Health Plan Practices

Changes practices for prepaid health plans serving Medicaid recipients, affecting plan operators, providers, and Medicaid patients.

Reorganize & Fund Rare Disease Adv. Council

Reorganizes and funds the Rare Disease Advisory Council, affecting the council and people with rare diseases.

RURAL Care Act

Addresses rural health care in North Carolina, affecting rural patients and health care providers.

Rep. Mike Clampitt Bone Marrow Donation Act

Addresses bone marrow donation in honor of Representative Mike Clampitt, affecting potential donors and transplant patients.

Medicaid Rebase

Adjusts Medicaid funding through a rebase, affecting the state Medicaid program and health care providers serving Medicaid patients.

Lower Healthcare Costs

Makes changes intended to lower health care costs, affecting patients, health care providers, and payers.

NC Health Benefits Exchange Implementation

Implements a North Carolina health benefits exchange, affecting people seeking health coverage and participating insurers.

Increase Medicaid PCS and PDN Rates

Increases Medicaid payment rates for personal care services and private duty nursing, affecting Medicaid recipients and providers of those services.

The HEAL Act

Addresses health through measures described as the HEAL Act; the title does not specify the changes or affected groups.

Require Free Water in Bars

Requires bars to provide free drinking water. It affects bar operators and customers.

SANE Nurses Data/Registration Info Reqs

Sets data and registration information requirements for sexual assault nurse examiners, affecting those nurses and the agencies that oversee or use the information.

Reduce Healthcare Costs & Protect Patients

Seeks to reduce healthcare costs and protect patients, affecting patients and healthcare providers or insurers; the title does not specify the measures.

MOMnibus 3.5

Makes a package of changes related to maternal health, affecting pregnant people, mothers, infants, health-care providers, and state health programs.

Behavior Analysis Reforms

Changes rules related to behavior analysis services, affecting behavior analysts and the people they serve.

We Need More Midwives Act

Takes steps intended to increase the number of midwives, affecting midwives and people seeking maternity care.

Lower Healthcare Costs

Seeks to lower healthcare costs. It affects patients, healthcare providers, insurers, and others who pay for healthcare.

Orthodontic Treatment In-Person Exam Req

Requires an in-person examination for orthodontic treatment, affecting orthodontic providers and patients.

Affordability in Healthcare Act

Addresses health care affordability, affecting patients, health care providers, and others involved in paying for care.

Chiropractic Abuse of Costs

Addresses chiropractic costs considered abusive, affecting chiropractors, patients, and those paying chiropractic claims.

Expanded Acc. to Doulas and Midwives/BC Lic

Expands access to doulas and midwives and addresses licensing tied to “BC”; the title does not identify what “BC” means.

The SAVE Act

Makes health-related changes under the SAVE Act, affecting health care providers and patients.

IDD Omnibus

Makes multiple changes related to intellectual and developmental disabilities, affecting people with these disabilities and their service providers.

Hospital Authority Commissioner Reforms

Changes requirements for hospital authority commissioners, affecting commissioners and the hospital authorities they oversee.

Investing in Teen Mental Health

Provides investment for teen mental health, affecting teenagers and organizations or providers offering mental health support.

Omnibus Life Sciences Appropriations

Provides funding for multiple life sciences initiatives, affecting related research, health, education, or industry programs.

Protecting Medicaid & Autism Services

Seeks to protect Medicaid coverage and autism services, affecting Medicaid recipients with autism and the providers who serve them.

Aging With Dignity Act

Addresses aging with dignity and affects older adults and those involved in their care.