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ND SB2169
Bill
Status
1/11/2021
Primary Sponsor
Kathy Hogan
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AI Summary
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Establishes a COVID-19 essential worker relief grant program providing $1,000 to each eligible essential worker in North Dakota.
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Requires applicants to be full-time essential workers, North Dakota residents, earning less than $60,000 annually, with applications due by May 31, 2022.
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Defines essential workers broadly to include 29 categories ranging from government employees, healthcare workers, educators, and first responders to retail workers, utility workers, and disinfection service providers.
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Appropriates $200,000,000 from federal fiscal stimulus funds available before December 31, 2021, with a contingent appropriation of $200,000,000 from the state general fund if federal funds are unavailable.
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Program expires June 30, 2022, and becomes ineffective after that date.
Legislative Description
A COVID-19 relief grant program for essential workers; to provide an appropriation; to provide a contingent appropriation; and to provide an expiration date.
Last Action
Second reading, failed to pass, yeas 7 nays 40
2/18/2021