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Sen. Karen Krebsbach, right, talks with John MacMartin, president of Minot Area Chamber EDC, while awaiting the start of the chamber’s legislative forum in the State Fair Center Saturday. Krebsbach and Rep. Jay Fisher attended in person while several legislators participated remotely.
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An infrastructure bonding bill and funding for the intermodal facility in Minot are among bills that have passed one house and will be continuing through the legislative process in Bismarck.
House Bill 1431, which calls for bonding for projects such as Minot flood control, was supported by the Minot legislative delegation in the 74-17 House vote last Friday.
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Legislation that would expand a grant program for state universities and colleges to private schools received a mixed response from Minot legislators during Senate passage last Thursday.
Senate Bill 2030 allows the University of Jamestown and the University of Mary to participate in raising scholarship money only in the North Dakota University System’s Challenge Grant program. The program, established in 2013 for the state’s 11 institutions of higher learning, provides matching funds for locally raised donations, often directed toward student scholarships.
“I am of the feeling that we are obligated to take care of the institutions that are within the state budget,” Sen. Karen Krebsbach, R-Minot said at Saturday’s legislative forum, sponsored by the Minot Area Chamber EDC. “How far is this going to go?”
One amendment is designed to end NDSU’s partnership with Planned Parenthood.
NDSU received a grant from the Competitive Personal Responsibility Education Program funding through the federal Family and Youth Services Bureau. NDSU partners with Planned Parenthood to deliver that programming.
Some state lawmakers and Christian groups have called on NDSU to end that program. In 2019, 89 state lawmakers signed a letter, asking NDSU to refrain from working with Planned Parenthood. We have struggled with certain higher-ed institutions partnering with the nation s largest abortion provider, said the amendment s author, Sen. Janne Myrdal (R-Edinburg). She also organized the letter wring campaign in the 2019 Legislature.