Committee recommends do‑not‑pass on bill to lock TrainND distribution formula; members want to see implementation first

The Senate Workforce Development Committee recommended a do‑not‑pass on Senate Bill 2,131, a bill that would have placed a recently adopted TrainND funding distribution formula into statute. Committee members said the Department of Career and Technical Education board (TrainND governance) adopted a policy in December to redistribute a longstanding $2,000,000 appropriation among the regions, but implementation had not yet occurred.