Page:2013 North Dakota Session Laws.pdf/79

 Appropriations

Chapter 15

c. Rental assistance payments must be based on a housing survey conducted by the agency or a statewide survey subject to review and recommendation by the office of management and budget and approval by the emergency commission. Employees eligible to receive rental assistance include employees currently renting in designated areas of the state and new employees or existing employees transferring into affected areas of the state. The rental assistance payment must be a flat dollar amount based on the difference between the state rental rate average and the rental rates for housing in the location where the employee resides. d. A state agency that has an employee receiving rental assistance must submit documentation to the office of management and budget upon request that verifies the employee's proof of payment. e. A state agency must report any changes to the office of management and budget of the housing status of employees relating to a position that has been approved. 2. A state agency may submit an application for up to six months of salary differential payments for employees living in assigned or in temporarily assigned areas of the state affected by energy development. The application must document the salary level of each affected employee or position compared to statewide and local averages for similar types of employee positions. The office of management and budget shall review the application for salary differential payments and make a recommendation to the emergency commission to approve or reject the request. The emergency commission shall make the final determination on the application. Any salary differential payment provided to an employee does not become part of the employee's permanent base salary. SECTION 7. COMMUNITY SERVICE SUPERVISION GRANTS - FUNDING ALLOCATIONS - ADDITIONAL INCOME APPROPRIATION. The grants line item in section 1 of this Act includes the sum of $375,000 from the general fund for the purpose of providing community service supervision grants. The office of management and budget shall distribute the grant funds on or before August first during each year of the biennium beginning July 1, 2013, and ending June 30, 2015, to North Dakota community corrections association regions as follows: Barnes County Bismarck (urban) Bismarck (rural) Devils Lake Dickinson Fargo Grand Forks Jamestown Minot Richland County Rugby Sargent County Wells County Williston Total

$9,091 20,293 10,667 10,747 12,683 24,127 19,803 13,883 16,194 9,931 11,657 8,086 8,189 12,149 $187,500

Any moneys in the community service supervision fund are appropriated to the office of management and budget for distribution to community corrections association