§ 15-10-48 — Advancement of academics - Matching grants - University of North Dakota and North Dakota state university

and North Dakota state university.
1. a. Subject to legislative appropriations, each biennium during the period beginning
July first of each odd-numbered year and ending December thirty-first of each
even-numbered year, the state board of higher education shall award one dollar
in matching grants for every two dollars raised by the institutional foundations of
the university of North Dakota and North Dakota state university for projects
dedicated exclusively to the advancement of academics.
b. To be eligible for a matching grant, an institution must demonstrate that:
(1) Its foundation has raised at least fifty thousand dollars in cash or monetary
pledges for a qualifying project; and
(2) The project has been approved by the grant review committee established
in section 15-10-51.
(3) The institution is not sponsoring, partnering with, applying for grants with, or
providing a grant subaward to any person or organization that performs, or
promotes the performance of, an abortion unless the abortion is necessary
to prevent the death of the woman, and not participating in or sponsoring
any program producing, distributing, publishing, disseminating, endorsing, or
approving materials of any type or from any organization, that between
normal childbirth and abortion, do not give preference, encouragement, and
support to normal childbirth. This paragraph does not apply to agreements
entered into with medical hospitals and clinics by the university of North
Dakota school of medicine and health sciences or by any nursing education
program at an institution under the control of the state board of higher
education.
c. The board may award up to three million two hundred forty-five thousand dollars
in matching grants each to the university of North Dakota and North Dakota state
university; and up to two million six hundred forty-five thousand dollars in
matching grants to the university of North Dakota school of medicine and health
sciences. Of the amount available to the university of North Dakota, two hundred
fifty thousand dollars must be awarded for projects dedicated to projects at the
school of law.

2. a. If any available dollars have not been awarded by the board before January first
of each odd-numbered year, in accordance with subsection 1, either the
university of North Dakota or North Dakota state university may apply for an
additional matching grant.
b. An application submitted under this subsection must meet the same criteria as an
original application.
c. The board shall consider each application submitted under this subsection in
chronological order.
d. If the remaining dollars are insufficient to provide a matching grant in the amount
of one dollar for every two dollars raised by the institutional foundation, the board
shall award a lesser amount.
3. The state board of higher education shall retain up to one-quarter of one percent of
any grant awarded under this section to assist with administrative expenses incurred in
the grant review process.