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Committee hears bill to allow retention payments in rural attorney recruitment program
Summary
Senate Bill 2211 would add a retention option to North Dakota’s rural attorney recruitment program without increasing the program’s cap or requesting new state appropriation; testimony explained the program structure and current participants.
Senators considered Senate Bill 2211, a measure to revise the state’s rural attorney recruitment program so the same program can be used both to recruit attorneys into underserved counties and to retain attorneys already serving in those counties.
Sponsor Sen. Brad Becketal told the committee the bill makes a small statutory change to add “retention” language to the existing program; he said the change does not add new slots or a new appropriation. "The bill you have before you has no appropriation. It has no money attached to it for new money,"…
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