H571: Funds for PTSD Treatment for Police Officers. Latest Version

Session: 2025 - 2026



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.