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N.D. (AP) – North Dakota legislative negotiators have killed an amendment to an anti-abortion bill that had threatened a three-year, .2 million federal sex education grant for North Dakota State University. 

A conference committee of three House members and three senators voted unanimously Tuesday to delete the amendment from a Senate measure. The bill is aimed at outlawing abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy based on the disputed premise that a fetus can feel pain at that point.

Republican Rep. Bette Grande of Fargo sponsored the amendment to halt NDSU’s grant, which provides funding for voluntary sex education to Fargo-area teens with parental consent.  The House voted last month include the amendment in a measure. The original Senate bill will now get a vote in the House.