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Bill to allow compensation for rural ambulance district board members gets brief hearing
Summary
Senate Bill 2358 would authorize rural ambulance districts to reimburse board members for meeting attendance and related expenses. The committee heard brief testimony that paying or reimbursing board members could help districts recruit and retain volunteer trustees; proponents asked the committee to allow districts to set amounts locally.
Senate Bill 2358, a short measure to permit rural ambulance districts to provide compensation or expense reimbursement to elected board members, received a brief hearing before the State and Local Government Committee.
Bill Kolonik, representing the North Dakota EMS Association, said the change responds to difficulty recruiting volunteers to serve on newly authorized rural…
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