LEGISLATIVE ACTION
ALERT
ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY PREVENTION COALITION OF NORTH
CAROLINA
Monday,
April 23, 2007
The House of
Representatives is working to finalize its version of the budget by April 30;
therefore, all appropriations subcommittees are scheduled to have budget
packages complete early this week. The Appropriations Subcommittee on Health
and Human Services, in which all matters affecting adolescent health and
pregnancy prevention are handled, is scheduled to have its budget package
possibly complete by Tuesday, April 24.
Your assistance is
needed! Please contact members of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on
Health and Human Services and ask them to support the following budget
requests:
· $175,000
in recurring funds for the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Coalition of North
Carolina. The funds will be
used to match grants from private sources so that the organization can continue
to work with and provide technical support to groups, communities, professionals
and individuals in organizing and implementing programs to prevent adolescent
pregnancies
· $375,000
in recurring funds for school-based and school-linked health
centers. There are 52 centers
and 28 receive state funds.
Unfortunately, the state funds have been stagnant and the centers have
not received an increase in funding - not even a cost of living increase, but
the centers' caseload has been continuously growing. .
· $1,750,000
from the TANF Block Grant to be allocated for local pregnancy prevention
programs, initiatives, and out-of-wedlock births prevention. It is extremely important that you let
legislators know that the $1.75 million would be in addition to the $2.5
million that are to be appropriated from the Social Services Block Grant (SSBG)
-- $1.5 of which goes to fund local pregnancy prevention programs, and the
remaining $1 million goes to local health departments for out-of-wedlock birth
prevention. The 1.75
million is needed to restore funding that was cut in 2001 resulting in the loss
of 12 local programs at that time, to offset pending cut of at least $450,000 in
Medicaid funds, and to restore $600,000 in funding to local health departments
that was cut in 2001. The $1.5 million
in TANF funds and the $2.5 million in SSBG funds will restore the
programs/initiatives to the 2000-2001 level of funding.
Start contacting members of
the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services today and
continue your contacts throughout this week. Also
call the co-chairpersons of the overall House Appropriations Committee, but call
the subcommittee members first.
MEMBERS
OF HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
Rep.
Beverly Earle (D) (Co-chairperson)
Room 634,
Legislative Office Building
Raleigh,
NC 27603-5925
O: (919)
715-2530
O: (704)
333-7180 (Mecklenburg)
Rep. Bob
England (D) (Co-Chair)
Room 2219,
LegislativeBuilding
Raleigh,
NC27601-1096
O: (919)
733-5749
O: (828) 245-7626
(Cleveland & Rutherford)
E-mail: Bobe@ncleg.net
Rep. Verla Insko (D)
(Co-Chairperson)
Room 307 B1, Legislative Office
Building
Raleigh, NC
27603-5925
O: (919) 733-7208
H: (919) 929-6115 (Orange)
E-mail: Verlai@ncleg.net
Rep. Jeff Barnhart (R)
(Vice-chairman)
Room 608 Legislative Office
Building
Raleigh, NC
27603-5925
O: (919) 715-2009
O: (704-786-2012 (Cabarrus)
E-mail: Jeffba@ncleg.net
Rep. Debbie A. Clary (R)
(Vice-chairman)
Room 303, Legislative
Office Building
Raleigh, NC
27603-5925
O: (919) 715-2002
O: (704) 480-1407 (Cleveland,
Gaston)
E-mail: Debbiec@ncleg.net
Rep. Linda Coleman (D)
(Vice-Chairperson)
Room 301 N, Legislative Office
Building
Raleigh, NC
27603-5925
O: (919) 733-5974
H: (919) 266-9037 (Wake)
E-mail: Lindac@ncleg.net
Rep. Bob
Brisson (D)
Room 1325,
LegislativeBuilding
Raleigh,
NC
27601-1096
O: (919)
733-5772
O: (910) 862-7007
(Bladen & Cumberland)
E-mail: Williambr@ncleg.net
Rep. Wil Neumann (R)
Room 510, Legislative
Office Building
Raleigh, NC
27603-5925
O: (919) 733-5868
O: (704) 825-4077 (Gaston)
E-mail: Wiln@ncleg.net
Rep. Charles Thomas (R)
Room 418C,
Legislative Office Building
Raleigh, NC
27603-5925
O: (919) 715-30128
O: (828) 681-5516 (Buncomben)
E-mail: Charlest@ncleg.net
CO-CHAIRPERSONS OF THE
OVERALL HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE
The following legislators ultimately will be responsible
for what gets into the House's version of the budget
bill.
Rep.
Alma Adams
(D) (Co-Chair)
Room
304, Legislative
Office Building
Raleigh,
NC27603-5925
O:
(919) 733-5902
O:
(336) 517-2312 (Guilford)
E-mail: Almaa@ncleg.net
Rep.
Martha Alexander
(D) (Co-Chair)
Room
2208, LegislativeBuilding
Raleigh,
NC27601-1096
O:
(919) 733-5807
O:
(704) 558-4670 (Mecklenburg)
E-mail: Marthaa@ncleg.net
Rep.
Jim Crawford
(D) (Co-Chair)
Room
2301, LegislativeBuilding
Raleigh,
NC27601-1096
O:
(919) 733-5824
O:
(252) 492-0185 (Granville & Vance)
E-mail: Jimcr@ncleg.net
Rep.
Mickey Michaux
(D) (Co-Chair)
Room
1227, LegislativeBuilding
Raleigh,
NC27601-1096
O:
(919) 715-2528
O:
(919) 596-8181 (Durham)
E-mail: Mickeym@ncleg.net
Rep.
Joe Tolson (D)
(Co-Chair)
Room
305, LegislativeOfficeBuilding
Raleigh,
NC27603-5925
O:
(919) 715-3026
O:
(252) 827-2749 (Edgecombe & Wilson)
E-mail:
Joet@ncleg.net
Rep.
Doug Yongue
(D) (Co-Chair)
Room
1303, LegislativeBuilding
Raleigh,
NC27601-1096
O:
(919) 733-5828
O:
(910) 276-1727 (Hoke, Robeson &
Scotland)
E-mail: Douglasy@ncleg.net
Compiled by
Patricia Yancey
Director of
Public Education
Adolescent
Pregnancy Prevention Coalition of North Carolina
