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HB 1213

Public health and safety; Oklahoma Public Health and Safety Reform Act of 2025; effective date.

2025 Regular Session Introduced by Ken Luttrell

Transfers $20M from the SII Fund to the Infrastructure Revolving Loan Fund to boost low-interest infrastructure loans for counties, cities, and schools.

Second Reading referred to Rules
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Bill Summary · HB 1213

HB 1213 — Summary

Title: A BILL for an Act to provide for a transfer to the infrastructure revolving loan fund
Introduced: November 12, 2024
Status: Second reading — failed to pass (yeas 20, nays 27)

Main purpose and intent

HB 1213 proposed a one‑time transfer from North Dakota’s Strategic Investment and Improvements Fund (SII Fund) into the Infrastructure Revolving Loan Fund (IRLF) to increase the IRLF’s lending capacity for political‑subdivision infrastructure projects during the 2025–2027 biennium.

Key provisions

  • Directs the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to transfer a sum from the SII Fund to the IRLF during the biennium beginning July 1, 2025 and ending June 30, 2027.
  • The most recent Senate‑amended text specifies a transfer of $20,000,000 to the IRLF.
  • Earlier bill drafts and companion/related proposals included alternate amounts and earmarks (e.g., $50,000,000 or larger transfers and proposals that limited use to loans for correctional or jail facilities). The final Senate amendment that was circulated narrowed the provision to a $20,000,000 transfer to the IRLF (no explicit limitation in that final amendment text).
  • The IRLF is the state loan vehicle that capitalizes low‑interest loans to political subdivisions (counties, cities, school districts, etc.) for eligible infrastructure projects administered consistent with IRLF rules and Bank of North Dakota procedures (in prior/related drafts the Bank or program administration was referenced).

Who would be affected

  • Strategic Investment and Improvements Fund: reduced by the transferred amount (i.e., $20 million per the last amendment).
  • Infrastructure Revolving Loan Fund: increased capitalization, enabling additional loans.
  • Political subdivisions (counties, cities, regional authorities, possibly correctional/jail authorities depending on version): potential beneficiaries of new low‑interest loans for infrastructure projects.
  • Office of Management and Budget: obligated to execute the transfer during the specified biennium.

Fiscal and policy impacts

  • Direct fiscal effect: a one‑time cash transfer lowering SII Fund balances by the specified amount and increasing IRLF resources by the same amount.
  • Policy effect: temporarily boosts state capacity to lend for local infrastructure; could increase borrowing/repayment activity through the IRLF and enable projects that otherwise might wait for other funding.
  • Earlier drafts that limited use to correctional facilities would have targeted the benefit narrowly; later Senate amendment removed that specific restriction and reduced the transfer amount.

Procedural / timeline notes

  • Transfer period specified: biennium beginning July 1, 2025 and ending June 30, 2027.
  • Legislative action (as provided): the bill reached second reading but failed to pass (yeas 20, nays 27).
  • Multiple versions and amendments circulated during the session included different transfer amounts and earmarks; the last documented amendment reduced the transfer to $20 million and removed earlier, narrower spending restrictions.

Note: The HB 1213 designation has been used for different bills in other states/sessions; this summary focuses on the version titled “An Act to provide for a transfer to the infrastructure revolving loan fund” (the North Dakota IRLF transfer proposal).

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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