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House passes OMB budget; moves state hospital project, adds guardianship funds and anticipates DAPL settlement payment
Summary
The House approved the Office of Management and Budget appropriation, moving the state hospital construction project into OMB with a $300 million project total and adding $1 million for county guardianship grants; the bill anticipates a roughly $28 million settlement to repay a DAPL‑related loan and carries emergency provisions.
The North Dakota House adopted the conference committee report on House Bill 10-15, the appropriation bill for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and passed the bill with its emergency clause.
Representative Vegathoff, presenting the conference report, said the committee added $1,000,000 to guardianship grants administered by OMB to help counties recruit guardians. The package also reduces base operations funding for Prairie Public (no ongoing base funding was restored) but provides $400,000 for infrastructure…
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