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Committee considers funding to stand up North Dakota Center for Aerospace Medicine to support pilots' mental health
Summary
Legislators discussed House Bill 1612 to provide seed funding to establish a North Dakota Center for Aerospace Medicine at the University of North Dakota to expand mental‑health and aviation‑medicine services for pilots; the committee reduced the original $2 million proposal to $500,000 and recorded committee support.
Representative Matt Ruby presented House Bill 1612, a proposal to provide state grant funding to expand a University of North Dakota program offering aerospace‑medicine and mental‑health services aimed at pilots and student aviators. The bill’s proponents said the program seeks to reduce career‑ending consequences for pilots who seek mental‑health care and to provide a protocol the FAA can examine for broader adoption.
Ruby and witnesses described the proposal as a continuation and expansion of services UND already provides to its students through student health. Representative Landon Bail (identified in committee testimony) said the state does not yet have a named North…
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