{"id":105267,"date":"2016-08-04T11:41:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T16:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=105267"},"modified":"2016-08-04T11:41:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T16:41:23","slug":"nd-legislature-approves-bill-addressing-shortfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=105267","title":{"rendered":"ND Legislature approves  bill, addressing shortfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13725\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NDstatecapital-300x202.png\" alt=\"NDstatecapital\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NDstatecapital-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NDstatecapital-259x175.png 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NDstatecapital.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota\u2019s Legislature has approved a bill to address a $310 million shortfall in the state budget.<\/p>\n<p>The state House voted 82-8 Thursday morning to pass the bill. It will further cuts to government agencies, take profits from North Dakota\u2019s state-owned bank and exhaust what\u2019s left of a rainy day fund to make up the shortfall.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate voted 46-0 Wednesday to approve the bill crafted by Republican Gov. Jack Dalrymple and GOP legislative leaders. Dalrymple signed the bill Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Attempts by Democrats to amend the measure to restore some funding for social programs and property tax relief failed in the GOP-controlled Legislature<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota\u2019s Legislature has approved a bill to address a $310 million shortfall in the state budget. The state House voted 82-8 Thursday morning to pass the bill. It will further cuts to government agencies, take profits from North Dakota\u2019s state-owned bank and exhaust what\u2019s left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":67441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105268,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105267\/revisions\/105268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}