25.0182.03000
Sixty-ninth
Legislative Assembly
of North Dakota
Introduced by
Appropriations Committee
A BILL for an Act to provide an appropriation for defraying the expenses of the department of
corrections and rehabilitation; to provide for a report; to provide for a legislative management
study; and to provide an exemption.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA:
SECTION 1. APPROPRIATION. The funds provided in this section, or so much of the funds
as may be necessary, are appropriated out of any moneys in the general fund in the state
treasury, not otherwise appropriated, and from other funds derived from special funds and
federal funds, to the department of corrections and rehabilitation for the purpose of defraying
the expenses of the department of corrections and rehabilitation, for the biennium beginning
July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2027, as follows:
Adjustments or
Base Level Enhancements Appropriation
Adult services $265,998,440 $161,089,699 $427,088,139
Youth services 26,853,221 9,480,420 36,333,641
New and vacant FTE pool 0 15,246,375 15,246,375
Total all funds $292,851,661 $185,816,494 $478,668,155
Less other funds 45,744,746 108,434,000 154,178,746
Total general fund $247,106,915 $77,382,494 $324,489,409
Full-time equivalent positions 929.79 51.00 980.79
SECTION 2. ONE-TIME FUNDING - EFFECT ON BASE BUDGET - REPORT TO THE
SEVENTIETH LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. The following amounts reflect the one-time funding
items included in the appropriation in section 1 of this Act which are not included in the entity's
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base budget for the 2027-29 biennium and which the entity shall report to the appropriations
committees of the seventieth legislative assembly regarding the use of this funding:
One - Time Funding Description General Fund Other Funds Total
Heart River correctional center $36,742 $35,635,000 $35,671,742
Missouri River correctional center 121,136 8,032,757 8,153,893
temporary housing unit
Payments to county and regional jails17,500,000 0 17,500,000
Deferred maintenance and extraordinary 0 15,000,000 15,000,000
repairs
New FTE costs 40,000 0 40,000
James River correctional center study 0 750,000 750,000
Missouri River correctional center planning 0 20,000,000 20,000,000
and design
Software systems and technology 0 11,278,631 11,278,631
upgrades
Equipment 0 2,079,700 2,079,700
Victims of crime grants 0 7,000,000 7,000,000
Mental health assessments and services 0 550,000 550,000
Rough rider industries equipment and 0 13,722,181 13,722,181
supplies
Workforce training and education 0 1,027,500 1,027,500
James River correctional center 0 570,000 570,000
maintenance building demolition
County and regional correctional centers 0 3,000,000 3,000,000
contracted operations
Total $17,697,878 $118,645,769 $136,343,647
SECTION 3. NEW AND VACANT FTE POOL - LIMITATION - TRANSFER REQUEST. The
department of corrections and rehabilitation may not spend funds appropriated in the new and
vacant FTE pool line item in section 1 of this Act, but may request the office of management and
budget to transfer funds from the new and vacant FTE pool line item to the adult services and
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youth services line items in accordance with the guidelines and reporting provisions included in
House Bill No. 1015, as approved by the sixty-ninth legislative assembly.
SECTION 4. OTHER FUNDS - STRATEGIC INVESTMENT AND IMPROVEMENTS FUND.
The other funds line item in section 1 of this Act includes the sum of $102,356,197 from the
strategic investment and improvements fund for one-time projects and programs as follows:
Heart River correctional center project $35,635,000
Missouri River correctional center temporary housing 8,032,757
Missouri River correctional center planning and design 20,000,000
James River correctional center facilities study 750,000
James River correctional center maintenance building demolition 570,000
County and regional correctional center contracted operations 3,000,000
Deferred maintenance and extraordinary repairs 15,000,000
Software and technology upgrades 11,278,631
Equipment 1,089,809
Victims of crime grants 7,000,000
Total $102,356,197
SECTION 5. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND REHABILITATION OPERATING
FUND REVENUES. Any moneys received by the department of corrections and rehabilitation
from correctional supervision, electronic monitoring, and detention; reimbursements from other
agencies; profits received from department of corrections and rehabilitation commissary;
miscellaneous revenue, including offender fines, fees, restitution, and medical copayments; and
from the youth correctional center permanent fund, may be deposited in the department of
corrections and rehabilitation operating fund and expended pursuant to legislative appropriation
for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2027.
SECTION 6. MISSOURI RIVER CORRECTIONAL CENTER PLANNING AND DESIGN -
REPORT. The appropriation in the adult services line item in section 1 of this Act includes
$20,000,000 from the strategic investment and improvements fund for planning and design for a
new six hundred bed minimum security male correctional facility for the Missouri River
correctional center. The department of corrections and rehabilitation shall provide a quarterly
report to the legislative management regarding the planning and design of a new minimum
security facility.
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SECTION 7. LEGISLATIVE MANAGEMENT STUDY - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
AND REHABILITATION. During the 2025-26 interim, the legislative management shall consider
studying the impacts of providing requirements for offenders sentenced to the supervision and
custody of the department of corrections and rehabilitation. The study must include a thorough
review of the impacts of requiring an offender to serve eighty-five percent of an offender's term
of imprisonment in a secured facility, together with input from district court judges regarding
sentencing decisions, state's attorneys regarding charging decisions, the department of
corrections and rehabilitation regarding early release and use of transitional facilities to provide
outside services to inmates, and the parole board regarding decisions to parole an inmate. The
legislative management shall report its findings and recommendations, together with any
legislation required to implement the recommendations, to the seventieth legislative assembly.
SECTION 8. EXEMPTION - UNEXPENDED APPROPRIATIONS. The following
appropriations are not subject to the provisions of section 54-44.1-11 and may be continued into
the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2027:
1.Any amounts remaining from funds transferred to the department of corrections and
rehabilitation for deferred maintenance and extraordinary repairs from funding
appropriated from the strategic investment and improvements fund to the office of
management and budget in section 1 of chapter 640 of the 2023 Special Session
Session Laws.
2.Any amounts remaining from funds transferred to the department of corrections and
rehabilitation for deferred maintenance and extraordinary repairs from funding
appropriated from federal funds derived from the state fiscal recovery fund to the office
of management and budget in subsection 10 of section 1 of chapter 550 of the 2021
Special Session Session Laws and continued pursuant to section 9 of chapter 15 of
the 2023 Session Laws.
3.The sum of $131,200,000 appropriated from the strategic investment and
improvements fund for the construction of a new Heart River correctional center in
section 1 of chapter 15 of the 2023 Session Laws.
4.The sum of $307,000 appropriated from the strategic investment and improvements
fund for DOCSTARS maintenance in section 1 of chapter 15 of the 2023 Session
Laws.
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5.The sum of $2,000,000 appropriated from the strategic investment and improvements
fund for information technology needs in section 1 of chapter 15 of the 2023 Session
Laws.
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