ND Legislature considers Supreme Court makeover

BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) – The North Dakota Supreme Court docket might quickly be listening to instances in a special location.

The State Legislature is contemplating HCR 3025. If handed, it will give Legislative Administration the chance to check the potential for transferring the Supreme Court docket to the Liberty Memorial Constructing, the place the State Library is at the moment housed.

It’s more likely to price upwards of $50 million. That price ticket would seemingly embody transferring the State Library some place else. A part of the aim of the research is to find out what the price could be.

“The place it will come from, if anyplace, within the subsequent Legislative session, could be a part of what’s decided by the research,” mentioned Consultant Larry Klemin, R-Bismarck.

Former Governor Jack Dalrymple proposed an analogous plan in 2015, however it did not get sufficient legislative help. Supreme Court docket Chief Justice Jon Jensen helps the invoice.

The decision unanimously handed out of committee. Subsequent, it heads to the Home ground.

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