25.1268.03000
Sixty-ninth
Legislative Assembly
of North Dakota
Introduced by
Representatives Bahl, K. Anderson, O'Brien, Schreiber-Beck, Stemen
Senators Axtman, Cory, Meyer
A BILL for an Act to create and enact a new section to chapter 15-11 of the North Dakota
Century Code, relating to the establishment of the North Dakota center for aerospace medicine;
and to provide an appropriation.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA:
SECTION 1. A new section to chapter 15-11 of the North Dakota Century Code is created
and enacted as follows:
North Dakota center for aerospace medicine.
1.The university of North Dakota shall establish the North Dakota center for aerospace
medicine.
2.The North Dakota center for aerospace medicine shall:
a.Provide assistance to flight students, pilots, and aviation professionals in the
fields of commercial aviation, unmanned aircraft systems, and air traffic control to
obtain medical certification from the federal aviation administration;
b.Cooperate with the federal aviation administration office of aerospace medicine;
c.Support access, including rural access, to aviation medical examiners and
human intervention motivational study aviation medical examiners;
d.Provide support to assist aviation medical examiners, human intervention
motivational study aviation medical examiners, and applicants with federal
aviation administration requirements;
e.Facilitate collaboration between research initiatives across the state related to
aviation and space medicine; and
f.Provide education and outreach.
SECTION 2. APPROPRIATION - UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA - NORTH DAKOTA
CENTER FOR AEROSPACE MEDICINE. There is appropriated out of any moneys in the
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general fund in the state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $2,000,000, or so
much of the sum as may be necessary, to the university of North Dakota for the purpose of
planning, developing, establishing, and operating the North Dakota center for aerospace
medicine, including personnel recruitment and salaries, facility and assessment material costs,
professional development and training, education and outreach, and initial research funding, for
the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2027.
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