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 GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
 SESSION 2025
-S 1
-SENATE BILL 679
+S D
+SENATE BILL DRS35240-ND-82
 
 Short Title: The Women's Care Act. (Public)
 Sponsors: Senator Grafstein (Primary Sponsor).
-Referred to: Rules and Operations of the Senate
-March 26, 2025
-*S679-v-1*
+Referred to:
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+*DRS35240-ND-82*
 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
 AN ACT TO REQUIRE A COURT TO TEMPORARILY DEFER THE IMPRISONMENT OF 2
-A PREGNANT PERSON TH AT IS FOUND NOT TO B E A THREAT TO THE 3
+A PREGNANT PERSON THAT IS FOUND NOT TO BE A THREAT TO THE 3
 COMMUNITY. 4
 The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 5
 SECTION 1.  G.S. 148-25.2 reads as rewritten: 6
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 monthly via telephone and check in electronically through a website link providing confirmation 20
 of perinatal he althcare and personal contact information and contact information of utilized 21
 education and resource programs.  22
-The court shall allow th e pregnant female person  to be supervised  on probation prior to 23
+The court shall allow th e pregnant female person  to be supervised on probation prior to 23
 incarceration for at least a period of 12 weeks and up to a period of 12 months after delivery or 24
 the end of the pregnancy, whichever occurs first, before the pregnant female person shall 25
 surrender themselves to the Department of Adult Correction. If, upon being ordered by the court, 26
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 person may be prosecuted for this failure to surrender in any manner authorized by law. 28
 The court shall allow the female person to serve a term of probation prior to incarceration  29
 under this subsection without the payment of fines, fees, restitution, and probation fees and shall 30
-allow supervision to be conducted by phone or other electronic co mmunications. During this 31
+allow supervision to be conducted by phone or other electronic communications. During this 31
 term of supervised probation, the pregnant female person shall  maintain perinatal healthcare, 32
 treatment, and assessments and shall participate in education and resource programs to the extent 33
 these programs are available in the pregnant female person's community or from the Department 34
 of Health and Human Services an d shall provide monthly reporting of her per inatal healthcare 35
 information to the pregnant female person's probation officer. 36
+FILED SENATE
+Mar 25, 2025
+S.B. 679
+PRINCIPAL CLERK
 General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2025
-Page 2  Senate Bill 679-First Edition
+Page 2  DRS35240-ND-82
 The pregnant female person shall report the loss of the pregnancy for any reason to the court 1
 and to the  pregnant female person 's probation officer within 72 hours of the loss.  The court's 2
-jurisdiction during the period of probation  shall be the same as se t forth in these circumstances 3
+jurisdiction during the period of probation  shall be the same as set forth in these circumstances 3
 under Article 82 of Chapter 15A of the General Statutes . The time spent on pre -incarceration 4
 supervised probation shall be credited to the sentence or disposition imposed. 5
 (m) Beginning March 1, 2026, and annually thereafter, every prison and local 6