North DakotaNorth Dakota funds arts council work and public art projects
The North Dakota Council on the Arts receives $4,667,535 for its work during the 2025–27 budget period, including money for salaries, grants, and operating costs.
What it does
The Council on the Arts receives $4,667,535 for its work from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2027. The total includes state, special, and federal funds.
The council may use cultural endowment income and received gifts or grants for arts purposes. It may also use accrued interest for creative placemaking art, including money set aside for maintenance.
The Office of Management and Budget must make the council’s requested transfers between budget lines, except for the staffing pool. The council must notify lawmakers and report transfers over $50,000.
The budget includes $5,000 for Arts Across the Prairie education and $10,000 each for the state troubadour and poet laureate. Up to $25,000 in unused leave-payout money remains available for leave costs.
Argument forArts groups and communities could receive support for education and public art through the council’s funding and project spending.
Argument againstTransfer limits and reporting could make it harder for the council to shift money quickly when its budget needs change.
More detail
The law provides $4,667,535 for the Council on the Arts. The money covers the Council on the Arts’ expenses. The funding covers the two-year period from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2027.
The law makes cultural endowment income and certain gifts available to the council for arts purposes. This covers cultural endowment income and gifts, grants, bequests, donations, and assignments received by the Council on the Arts. Accrued endowment interest may pay to make, prepare sites for, and install creative placemaking art, including interest tied to money set aside for maintenance. These appropriations apply from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2027.
The law allows the council to request budget transfers and requires it to report certain transfers. These rules cover transfers among the Council on the Arts’ budget lines. The Office of Management and Budget must make requested transfers between budget lines, except transfers involving the new and vacant FTE pool. The council cannot spend directly from that pool, but may request a transfer from it to salaries and wages under separate guidelines. The council must notify the Legislative Council of transfers. After June 30, 2026, the council must report transfers over $50,000 to the Budget Section. It must report transfers under this section to the next legislative assembly’s appropriations committees.
The law sets aside money for named arts work and allows certain unused leave funds to carry over. The grants include funding for the state troubadour and poet laureate; the one-time education funding is for Arts Across the Prairie. The $25,000 carryover is limited to costs for accrued leave payouts. The $5,000 education funding is one-time. The leave-payout money is available during the period from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2027.
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- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- To Governor
- Became Law
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History
- 2025
- Jun 11Filed with Secretary Of State 05/02Latest
- May 2Signed by Governor Kelly Armstrong 05/02Became Law
- May 1Sent to GovernorTo Governor
- May 1Signed by President
- May 1Signed by Speaker
- Apr 29Second reading, passed as amended, yeas 61 nays 30Major
- Vote recorded Motion for Final Passage on SB 2010. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 29Conference committee report adopted
- Apr 28Reported back from conference committee, in place of, placed on calendarMinor
- Vote recorded Motion for Final Passage on SB 2010. Result: pass.Upper
- Apr 28Second reading, passed, yeas 34 nays 13Major
- Apr 28Conference committee report adopted
- Apr 28Reported back from conference committee, in place of, placed on calendarMinor
- Apr 24Conference committee report rejected
- Apr 23Reported back from conference committee, in place of, placed on calendarMinor
- Vote recorded Motion for Final Passage on SB 2010. Result: pass.Upper
- Apr 23Second reading, passed, yeas 38 nays 9Major
- Apr 23Conference committee report adopted
- Apr 22Reported back from conference committee, in place of, placed on calendarMinor
- Apr 18Appoint Sen. Davison to replace Sen. Cleary on conference committee
- Apr 9Conference committee appointed Murphy B. Anderson Mitskog
- Apr 4Conference committee appointed Magrum Cleary Mathern
- Apr 4Refused to concur
- Apr 1Returned to Senate (12)
- Mar 31Second reading, passed as amended, yeas 69 nays 20Passed House
- Vote recorded Motion for Final Passage on SB 2010. Result: pass.Lower
- Mar 28Amendment adopted, placed on calendar
- Mar 27Reported back amended, do pass, amendment placed on calendar 23 0 0Minor
- Mar 19Committee Hearing 08:30
- Mar 6Committee Hearing 09:00
- Feb 18Introduced, first reading, referred Appropriations CommitteeMinor
- Feb 6Received from Senate
- Feb 5Second reading, passed, yeas 42 nays 3Passed Senate
- Vote recorded Motion for Final Passage on SB 2010. Result: pass.Upper
- Feb 4Amendment adopted, placed on calendar
- Feb 3Reported back amended, do pass, amendment placed on calendar 15 1 0Minor
- Jan 13Committee Hearing 10:30
- Jan 7Introduced, first reading, referred Appropriations CommitteeIntroduced
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