Bismarck, ND  (KCSi-T.V. News Feb 6, 2013)  — A bill in the North Dakota Senate is designed to assist individuals with special needs find jobs.

District 12 Democratic Senator, John Grabinger of Jamestown

Senate Bill 2182 would provide the South Central Human Service Center in Jamstown with  up to $308,000 for the next biennium, to  provide transitional employment for those with mental illness or chemical dependency, to help train or partially employ those individiuals.

Grabinger says, the  funding,  provided previously is  no longer in the budget for South Central Human Services, and is looking at being restored.

Meanwhile, a bill introduced by Grabinger, has been withdrawn by the senator, which would  fund county roads with a portion of the sales tax proceeds.

It would have transferred 1.5 percent of the 5 percent sales tax collected by the state to the county where it was collected.

The county could have only use the money for infrastructure.

Grabinger says he could not find bi-partisan support for the bill.