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Senate committee advances bill letting Game and Fish run student job‑shadowing programs
Summary
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee gave House Bill 1174 a due‑pass recommendation after hearing that the bill would authorize the North Dakota Game and Fish Department to run educational outreach and job‑shadow programs aimed at recruiting future seasonal and permanent staff.
House Bill 1174, which would authorize the North Dakota Game and Fish Department to establish educational and community outreach programs including student job‑shadowing, won a due‑pass recommendation from the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee by a 5‑0 vote with two members absent.
The bill, introduced to the committee by Representative Donald Longyear on behalf of the Game and Fish Department, would give the department clear statutory authority to conduct job‑shadowing activities and other outreach to promote fisheries and wildlife management careers. Representative Longyear told the committee the department “did not have the ability to have students' job shadow,” and that creating a statutory program would expose high‑school students to agency functions and potential…
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