House adopts conference report for Senate Bill 2256 establishing Fargo research-park grant program

The North Dakota House of Representatives adopted the conference committee report on engrossed Senate Bill 2256, a measure that establishes a grant program for the Research and Technology Park in Fargo to be administered by the North Dakota Industrial Commission.

The conference committee's report was introduced on the seventh order of business; the committee listed representatives Steeman, Fisher and Schauer and senators Thorog, Thomas and others as members of the conference committee that considered earlier amendments. Representative Schauer explained that after two committee meetings the conference recommended no further changes to the version that had previously passed in committees and on the floor and moved that the House approve the conference committee report.

On the floor the motion to adopt the conference committee report carried and the report was adopted. The transcript records that "because there was no change, [it] does not require a vote on the fourteenth order," indicating the conference panel did not alter the bill's previously agreed text; no recorded roll-call vote for final passage appears in the provided excerpt. The bill, as described on the floor, creates a grant program to support the Research and Technology Park in Fargo and assigns administration of the program to the North Dakota Industrial Commission.