23.0207.01000
Sixty-eighth
Legislative Assembly SENATE BILL NO. 2026
of North Dakota
Introduced by
Legislative Management
(Acute Psychiatric Treatment Committee)
1 A BILL for an Act to provide a contingent appropriation to the department of health and human
2 services relating to the demolition of state hospital buildings; and to declare an emergency.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA:
4 SECTION 1. CONTINGENT APPROPRIATION - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
5 HUMAN SERVICES - ONE-TIME FUNDING. There is appropriated out of any moneys in the
6 general fund in the state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $2,000,000, or so
7 much of the sum as may be necessary, to the department of health and human services for the
8 purpose of demolishing unused buildings on the state hospital campus, including the milk barn,
9 pig barn, and water treatment plant buildings, for the period beginning with the effective date of
10 this Act, and ending June 30, 2025. Funding provided in this section:
11 1. May not be spent until the chapel, administrative building, employee building, and
12 associated tunnels on the state hospital campus are demolished pursuant to
13 section 17 of chapter 12 of the 2021 Session Laws;
14 2. Must be spent before spending any funding appropriated to the department of health
15 and human services for the purpose of building a new state hospital; and
16 3. Is considered a one-time funding item.
17 SECTION 2. EMERGENCY. This Act is declared to be an emergency measure.
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