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Sixty-ninth Legislative Assembly of North Dakota In Regular Session Commencing Tuesday, January 7, 2025 HOUSE BILL NO. 1197 (Representatives Frelich, Mitskog, Monson, K. Anderson, Schreiber-Beck, Wagner) (Senators Luick, Myrdal, Davison, Mathern, Meyer, Sorvaag) AN ACT to provide for a legislative management study of correctional facilities. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA: SECTION 1. LEGISLATIVE MANAGEMENT STUDY - CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES. During the 2025-26 interim, the legislative management shall study jails and regional correctional centers, including their current and projected infrastructure needs, the costs and benefits of regional correctional facilities, the impacts of deferred admission, and the prioritization of inmates sentenced to the department of corrections and rehabilitation. The study must include input from representatives of counties with a population of seven thousand five hundred or more, representatives of counties with a population of fewer than seven thousand five hundred, representatives of local law enforcement officials, representatives of the department of corrections and rehabilitation, representatives of the office of management and budget, and representatives of the attorney general. The legislative management shall report its findings and recommendations, together with any legislation required to implement the recommendations, to the seventieth legislative assembly. H. B. NO. 1197 - PAGE 2 ____________________________ Speaker of the House ____________________________ President of the Senate ____________________________ Chief Clerk of the House ____________________________ Secretary of the Senate This certifies that the within bill originated in the House of Representatives of the Sixty-ninth Legislative Assembly of North Dakota and is known on the records of that body as House Bill No. 1197. House Vote: Senate Vote: Yeas 82 Yeas 45 Nays 8 Nays 1 Absent 4 Absent 1 ____________________________ 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
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