A BILL for an Act to provide an appropriation to the department of transportation for a road project grant.
HB 1182 is a one-time appropriation bill that would allocate $611,000 from North Dakota’s strategic investment and improvements fund to the Department of Transportation for a road project grant to Dickey County. The grant is intended to help replace a culvert system and raise the grade of a road so it can better withstand flooding.
The bill is limited in scope and applies only to the 2025-2027 biennium. It does not create a new ongoing program or change transportation policy broadly; instead, it directs state funds to a specific local infrastructure project identified in the bill text.
If enacted, HB 1182 would authorize a single, targeted expenditure from the strategic investment and improvements fund and require the Department of Transportation to administer the grant to Dickey County. Its effect on state law would be narrow, functioning as a special appropriation for a local road and drainage improvement project rather than amending general transportation statutes or establishing a recurring funding mechanism.
The available record shows no committee transcript or recorded vote details, but the bill ultimately failed on February 3, 2025. Based on the text alone, the measure appears practical and infrastructure-focused, aimed at addressing flooding and road resilience in one county. The lack of recorded debate makes it difficult to identify broader support or opposition, but the failure suggests it did not advance through the legislative process.
No specific points of contention are documented in the available materials. Potential areas of concern, based on the bill’s structure, could include the use of state strategic investment funds for a single county project, the one-time nature of the appropriation, and whether the project should be funded at the state level versus locally. However, the record does not identify any legislators or stakeholders explicitly raising those issues.