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North Dakota Senate Bill SB2191

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1-Sixty-ninth Legislative Assembly of North Dakota
2-In Regular Session Commencing Tuesday, January 7, 2025
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3+Adopted by the Human Services
4+Committee
5+Sixty-ninth
6+February 5, 2025
7+Legislative Assembly
8+of North Dakota
9+Introduced by
10+Senators Lee, Dever, Hogan
11+Representatives Stemen, Wagner
12+A BILL for an Act to amend and reenact section 12-44.1-24 of the North Dakota Century Code,
13+relating to correctional facility standards and the duties of the department of corrections and
14+rehabilitation.for an Act to provide for a legislative management study relating to health care
15+services in local correctional facilities.
16+BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA:
17+ SECTION 1. AMENDMENT. Section 12-44.1-24 of the North Dakota Century Code is
18+amended and reenacted as follows:
19+ 12-44.1-24. Correctional facility standards - Inspections.
20+ The department of corrections and rehabilitation shall:
21+ 1. Prescribe rules establishing minimum standards for the construction, operation, and
22+maintenance of public or private correctional facilities.
23+ 2. Prescribe rules for the care and treatment of inmates.
24+ 3. Provide instruction to public and private correctional facilities on the correct
25+assessment and billing of medical care costs for medical care and treatment provided
26+to inmates.
27+ 4. Cause rules and regulations to be made available to inmates or be posted in at least
28+one conspicuous place in each correctional facility.
29+ 4.5.Appoint a correctional facility inspector qualified by special experience, education,
30+or training to inspect each correctional facility at least once each year to determine if
31+the rules and regulations have been complied with. Inspection must include health and
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4-(Senators Lee, Dever, Hogan)
5-(Representatives Stemen, Wagner)
6-AN ACT to provide for a legislative management study relating to health care services in local
7-correctional facilities.
8-BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA:
9-SECTION 1. LEGISLATIVE MANAGEMENT STUDY - HEALTH CARE SERVICES IN LOCAL
10-CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES .
11-1.During the 2025-26 interim, the legislative management shall consider studying health care
12-services in local correctional facilities. The study must include:
13-a.A review of current state and federal requirements of local correctional facilities regarding
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56+safety, fire and life safety, security, rehabilitation programs, recreation, treatment of
57+persons confined, and personnel training.
58+SECTION 1. LEGISLATIVE MANAGEMENT STUDY - HEALTH CARE SERVICES IN
59+LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES .
60+1.During the 2025-26 interim, the legislative management shall consider studying health
61+care services in local correctional facilities. The study must include:
62+a.A review of current state and federal requirements of local correctional facilities
63+regarding health care services;
1564 b.A review of health care services funding patterns for local correctional facilities;
16-c.A consideration of the challenges of local health care facilities and providers in serving
17-incarcerated individuals in local correctional facilities;
65+c.A consideration of the challenges of local health care facilities and providers in
66+serving incarcerated individuals in local correctional facilities;
1867 d.An analysis of models of best practices for health care services for incarcerated
1968 individuals in local correctional facilities; and
20-e.A consideration of methods to expand local, state, and federal funding for health care
21-services in local correctional facilities.
22-2.The legislative management shall report its findings and recommendations together with any
23-legislation required to implement the recommendations, to the seventieth legislative assembly. S. B. NO. 2191 - PAGE 2
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25-President of the Senate Speaker of the House
26-____________________________ ____________________________
27-Secretary of the Senate Chief Clerk of the House
28-This certifies that the within bill originated in the Senate of the Sixty-ninth Legislative Assembly of North
29-Dakota and is known on the records of that body as Senate Bill No. 2191.
30-Senate Vote:Yeas 47 Nays 0 Absent 0
31-House Vote: Yeas 75 Nays 9 Absent 10
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33-Secretary of the Senate
34-Received by the Governor at ________M. on _____________________________________, 2025.
35-Approved at ________M. on __________________________________________________, 2025.
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37-Governor
38-Filed in this office this ___________day of _______________________________________, 2025,
39-at ________ o’clock ________M.
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41-Secretary of State
69+e.A consideration of methods to expand local, state, and federal funding for health
70+care services in local correctional facilities.
71+2.The legislative management shall report its findings and recommendations together
72+with any legislation required to implement the recommendations, to the seventieth
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