(Bismarck, ND) — North Dakota lawmakers are considering seven bills during a special legislative session that began Tuesday. Governor Armstrong called the legislature back to the capital to get a head start on divvying funding from the Rural Health Transformation Program. The agenda was narrowed from 18 bill submissions down to seven before the start of the session. Among the bills, lawmakers are considering a ten-million-dollar loan program to save Jacobson Memorial Hospital and two competing bills to provide free meals at schools. The legislature is hoping to get through all the bills within a three-day time frame.
