North Dakota 2025 2025-2026 Regular Session

North Dakota Senate Bill SB2022 Engrossed / Bill

Filed 01/30/2025

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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 commission on 
legal counsel for indigents; and to create and enact a new subsection to section 54-44.3-20 of 
the North Dakota Century Code, relating to categories of positions in the state service.
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 commission on legal counsel for indigents for the purpose of defraying the 
expenses of the commission on legal counsel for indigents, for the biennium beginning July 1, 
2025, and ending June 30, 2027, as follows:
Adjustments or
Base Level Enhancements Appropriation
Commission on legal counsel $23,022,372 $2,766,753 $25,789,125
   for indigents
New and vacant FTE pool	0 554,757 554,757
Total all funds	$23,022,372 $3,321,510 $26,343,882
Less other funds	2,023,067 26,149 2,049,216
Total general fund	$20,999,305 $3,295,361 $24,294,666
Full-time equivalent positions	41.00	2.00 43.00
SECTION 2. NEW AND VACANT FTE POOL - LIMITATION - TRANSFER REQUEST. The 
commission on legal counsel for indigents 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 
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budget to transfer funds from the new and vacant FTE pool line item to the commission on legal 
counsel for indigents line item in accordance with the guidelines and reporting provisions 
included in House Bill No. 1015, as approved by the sixty-ninth legislative assembly.
SECTION 3. A new subsection to section 54-44.3-20 of the North Dakota Century Code is 
created and enacted as follows:
Attorneys employed by the commission on legal counsel for indigents.
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