A narrow House majority voted down the budget for the North Dakota Center for Tobacco Prevention and Control Policy in part because it called for three new full-time employees.
The bill, which had previously passed the Senate, called for a $15.8 million budget. The center was created in 2008 by voters after North Dakota accepted money in a settlement of a 1998 multistate lawsuit against the country's largest tobacco companies.
Measure 3, as it was known, was approved by 54 percent of voters and requires the state to use a portion of the settlement money to fund a comprehensive tobacco-prevention program.
Rep. Jon Nelson says some lawmakers have "a hard time accepting the vote" on the measure. The issue could be resurrected Friday.
The bill, which had previously passed the Senate, called for a $15.8 million budget. The center was created in 2008 by voters after North Dakota accepted money in a settlement of a 1998 multistate lawsuit against the country's largest tobacco companies.
Measure 3, as it was known, was approved by 54 percent of voters and requires the state to use a portion of the settlement money to fund a comprehensive tobacco-prevention program.
Rep. Jon Nelson says some lawmakers have "a hard time accepting the vote" on the measure. The issue could be resurrected Friday.
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