An act to create and enact a new subsection to section 54-23.3-04 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to authorization for children of inmates to reside at the Heart River correctional center., the official text

Sixty-ninth Legislative Assembly of North Dakota In Regular Session Commencing Tuesday, January 7, 2025
SENATE BILL NO. 2352 (Senators Dever, Hogan, Magrum, Mathern)
AN ACT to create and enact a new subsection to section 54-23.3-04 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to authorization for children of inmates to reside at the Heart River correctional center.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA: SECTION 1. A new subsection to section 54-23.3-04 of the North Dakota Century Code is created
and enacted as follows: To employ personnel and establish policies and procedures to authorize a child of a female inmate to reside at the Heart River correctional center under the care and general control of the female inmate if the child is eighteen months of age or younger. The policies must include considerations of the residential safety of the child, the length of time the child may reside within the facility, and treatment or other penological interest.

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____________________________ 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. 2352.

Senate Vote: House Vote:

Yeas 28 Yeas 48

Nays 18 Nays 42

Absent 1 Absent 4

____________________________ Secretary of the Senate
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