Rep. Lawrence Klemin, R-Bismarck. (Kyle Martin/For the North Dakota Monitor)
(. North Dakota Monitor) – A committee passed amendments and removed a key provision in a prison sentencing bill.
The House Judiciary Committee still gave Senate Bill 2128 a do-not-pass recommendation.
Committee chair Rep. Lawrence Klemin, R-Bismarck, who authored some of the amendments to the bill, said it wasn’t clear how the changes would affect the cost estimate of the bill.
Klemin said his intention was that a new cost estimate would be generated for the bill.
The original intent of the bill, which came from North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley’s office, was to ensure that criminals housed by the North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spend more of their sentence behind bars.
