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930 That the Legislative Assembly does hereby commend the Jamestown College for its contributions to the citizens of the state of North Dakota and to reaffirm its faith in the Jamestown College to make similar contributions to the welfare of the state in the next two years.

Filed March 6, 1959.

SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION "O-O"

(Committee on Delayed Bills)

(By request)

L.R.C. STUDY OF INSTITUTIONAL CARE AND REVOLVING FUNDS

A concurrent resolution directing the legislative research committee to study the feasibility of depositing all moneys presently deposited in the institutional revolving fund that are received from the state liquor tax into the general fund and relieving the counties of their responsibility for paying and collecting the expenses of institutional care in the state hospital, Grafton state school and tuberculosis sanatorium and to authorize the state board of administration to collect the cost of institutional care in certain instances from responsible relatives and patient's estates.

WHEREAS, state law presently provides that a portion of the moneys received from taxes on liquor shall be deposited in an institutional revolving fund to defray the cost of operation of the state hospital, Grafton state school, and the tuberculosis sanatorium; and

WHEREAS, this practice involves the principle of earmarking funds which is frowned upon by the legislative assembly because such moneys could be credited directly to the general fund thereby making the general fund more flexible ; and

WHEREAS, the present law requires certain relatives, and in some instances patient's estates, to pay for the cost of institutional care where such payments would not be a hardship on the persons concerned, and

WHEREAS, it is felt that a central state agency would be more effective in the collection of the costs of institutional care from responsible relatives and patient's estates than is presently the case, wherein each of the fifty-three counties perform such function;

Now, Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of North Dakota, the House of Representatives Concurring Therein:

That the legislative research committee is hereby authorized and directed to study the feasibility of depositing all of