1.    The director shall calculate the total payment for each human service zone pursuant to section 50-35-04 for each calendar year. The director shall notify each human service zone of the estimated amount of that zone’s payment for calendar year 2021 and the following years thereafter, before July first of the previous year. The director may amend and modify each human service zone’s payment. If the director amends and modifies a human service zone’s payment, the human service zone director must be notified within thirty days of amendment or modification.

Terms Used In North Dakota Code 50-35-03

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute means the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • year: means twelve consecutive months. See North Dakota Code 1-01-33

2.    The director shall distribute fifty percent of the amount of each human service zone’s payment determined under subsection 1, within the limits of legislative appropriation, before January eleventh.

3.    By June first of each year, the director shall recalculate the total payment for each human service zone pursuant to section 50-35-04 for the current calendar year.

4.    The director shall subtract from a human service zone’s June fifteenth disbursement any amount exceeding the limitation under section 50-35-05.

5.    The director shall calculate the total payment for the department pursuant to section 50-35-04.