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ND HB1037
Bill
Status
1/7/2025
Primary Sponsor
Legislative Management
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AI Summary
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Appropriates $3.75 million total in one-time general fund money for the 2025-2027 biennium, distributed as $750,000 each to five state agencies: Agriculture Commissioner, Attorney General, Department of Transportation, Department of Health and Human Services, and Department of Career and Technical Education
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Agriculture grants support drones and autonomous technology for inspection, operation, maintenance, or construction of agricultural property and infrastructure
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Attorney General grants fund autonomous technology to aid the Bureau of Criminal Investigation in missing person searches, crime scene reconstruction, and law enforcement first response operations
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Department of Transportation grants focus on monitoring the U.S. Highway 2 corridor to assist local and state law enforcement; Health and Human Services grants support rural EMS and ambulance districts for emergency response and disaster mitigation
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Career and Technical Education grants target a workforce training center in northwest North Dakota to address workforce shortages in oil and gas and other industries, including development of a drone racing course
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All grants may require 1:4 matching funds from recipients, and the legislative management must study economic impacts of autonomous technology investment during the 2025-26 interim with a report to the 70th Legislative Assembly
Legislative Description
A BILL for an Act to provide an appropriation to the agriculture commissioner, the attorney general, the department of career and technical education, the department of health and human services, and the department of transportation to increase the use of uncrewed aircraft systems, autonomous vehicles, or other autonomous technologies in the state; to provide for a legislative management study; and to provide for a legislative management report.
Last Action
Second reading, failed to pass, yeas 12 nays 80
2/24/2025