ND HB1251

Directs legislative management to study the creation of an inmate housing construction program during the 2017-18 interim period.

Program would provide inmates with housing construction vocational skills through building homes for sale to low-income homebuyers.

Study must analyze available grants, partnerships with private industry and labor groups, and opportunities for apprenticeships and home sales/transport arrangements.

Requires legislative management to report findings, recommendations, and any necessary legislation to the sixty-sixth legislative assembly.

Passed House 92-0 (2 absent) and Senate 46-1 (0 absent).