{"id":171092,"date":"2019-05-02T10:18:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T15:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=171092"},"modified":"2019-05-02T10:18:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T15:18:43","slug":"burgum-signs-remainder-of-2019-legislative-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=171092","title":{"rendered":"Burgum signs remainder of 2019 legislative bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-147126\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BurgumCSiphoto-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BurgumCSiphoto-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BurgumCSiphoto-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BurgumCSiphoto.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>BISMARCK, N.D. (May 2, 2019) \u2013 Gov. Doug Burgum has signed the remaining 53 bills from the recently adjourned 2019 legislative session, exercising his veto authority on one additional bill.<\/p>\n<p>The Legislature adjourned last Friday, finishing its biennial regular session in 76 days. Burgum had 15 business days to sign bills delivered to the governor\u2019s office within the last three days of session.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Burgum signed a total of 526 bills out of more than 900 bills introduced by the Legislature. The final 53 bills included most appropriations bills, with funding for key priorities such as a K-12 per-pupil funding formula that will top $10,000 per student for the first time, $28 million for a statewide network for unmanned aerial systems to help diversify North Dakota\u2019s economy, and multiple measures to address the state\u2019s workforce shortage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Burgum says, \u201cThis session brought a renewed spirit of collaboration with legislators to fund our priorities, make strategic investments and balance the budget without raising taxes.\u00a0 The executive branch looks forward to a successful interim as we carry out the many laws, policies and initiatives passed by the Legislature and signed into law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The governor had previously vetoed two bills in their entirety, and today he partially vetoed Senate Bill 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (May 2, 2019) \u2013 Gov. Doug Burgum has signed the remaining 53 bills from the recently adjourned 2019 legislative session, exercising his veto authority on one additional bill. The Legislature adjourned last Friday, finishing its biennial regular session in 76 days. Burgum had 15 business days to sign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171092","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=171092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171093,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171092\/revisions\/171093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}