Tue, Apr 18th, 2023 - 7:47am
March 02, 2023 - 7:42am | By Kyle Cornell
(Bismarck, ND) -- A pair of bills are moving through Bismarck as the North Dakota legislative session moves into its second half.
A State Senate bill would allow physical therapists to approve applications for handicapped parking permits. Physical therapists would have to describe how a person's impairment limits the applicant's mobility and daily life functions.
The permits are valid for no longer than three years. Physical therapists who provide false statements to approve permits would face a minimum fine of one-hundred dollars.
Meanwhile, a North Dakota Industrial Commission funding bill is headed to the state Senate.
The state House passed a bill Wednesday that would allocate money to the commission and agencies such as the Department of Mineral Resources and the Clean Sustainable Energy Authority. It also would fund the development of salt caverns for gas or liquid storage, upgrades to electric resiliency and transmission, and a study into the feasibility of mining rare minerals.
The bill gives departments three-million for each industry towards any litigation against them.
