{"id":170726,"date":"2019-04-29T07:27:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T12:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=170726"},"modified":"2019-04-29T07:27:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T12:27:56","slug":"2019-nd-legislative-session-wraps-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=170726","title":{"rendered":"2019 ND Legislative session wraps up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota lawmakers wrapped up their session with a record $14.7 billion budget spurred by a rebounding economy due largely to strong oil prices and production. Lawmakers approved about 500 bills \u2014 and talked about many more that didn&#8217;t pass.<\/p>\n<p>Some new laws that garnered attention included repealing a ban on Sunday shopping, redirecting millions of dollars of oil tax money to benefit water projects and schools, and approving a major spending plan for infrastructure projects outside of the oil patch.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers passed an initiative to make it more difficult for citizens to amend the state constitution, a move that will go to the voters next year. Citizens will also decide if expanding the state&#8217;s higher education board is a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>Among the bills that failed was another in a long line of initiatives to prohibit housing or workforce discrimination based on sexual orientation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota lawmakers wrapped up their session with a record $14.7 billion budget spurred by a rebounding economy due largely to strong oil prices and production. Lawmakers approved about 500 bills \u2014 and talked about many more that didn&#8217;t pass. Some new laws that garnered attention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170726","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\/170726","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=170726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170727,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170726\/revisions\/170727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}