Sixty-ninth Legislative Assembly of North Dakota In Regular Session Commencing Tuesday, January 7, 2025 SENATE BILL NO. 2218 (Senators Klein, Erbele, Hogue) (Representatives Brandenburg, Lefor, Pyle) AN ACT to provide an appropriation to the insurance commissioner for a North Dakota firefighter's association grant; and to declare an emergency. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA SECTION 1. APPROPRIATION - STRATEGIC INVESTMENT AND IMPROVEMENTS FUND - INSURANCE COMMISSIONER - NORTH DAKOTA FIREFIGHTER'S ASSOCIATION GRANT - ONE- TIME FUNDING. There is appropriated out of any moneys in the strategic investment and improvements fund in the state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $500,000, or so much of the sum as may be necessary, to the insurance commissioner for the purpose of providing a grant to the North Dakota firefighter's association, for the period beginning with the effective date of this Act, and ending June 30, 2027. Grant funds must be used only to defray the costs associated with a new firefighter's association building. The funding provided in this section is considered a one-time funding item. SECTION 2. EMERGENCY. This Act is declared to be an emergency measure. S. B. NO. 2218 - PAGE 2 ____________________________ ____________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House ____________________________ ____________________________ Secretary of the Senate Chief Clerk of the House This certifies that the within bill originated in the Senate of the Sixty-ninth Legislative Assembly of North Dakota and is known on the records of that body as Senate Bill No. 2218 and that two-thirds of the members-elect of the Senate voted in favor of said law. Vote: Yeas 47 Nays 0 Absent 0 ____________________________ ____________________________ President of the Senate Secretary of the Senate This certifies that two-thirds of the members-elect of the House of Representatives voted in favor of said law. Vote: Yeas 68 Nays 22 Absent 4 ____________________________ ____________________________ Speaker of the House Chief Clerk of the House Received by the Governor at ________M. on _____________________________________, 2025. Approved at ________M. on __________________________________________________, 2025. ____________________________ Governor Filed in this office this ___________day of _______________________________________, 2025, at ________ o’clock ________M. ____________________________ Secretary of State