By Dave Thompson

BISMARCK, N.D. (Prairie Public Radio) – The Senate has now passed the budget bill for the state’s Commerce Department without a proposed expenditure for a state-backed theme and amusement park, planned for Jamestown.

It would have been built on state owned land next to the National Buffalo Museum. $5 million was added for “seed money,” and the project would ask for $60 million in Legacy Fund Loan money.

Williston Republican Senator Brad Bekkedahl was on the Commerce conference committee.

SB 2018 passed 44 to 3. The House will now take a look at the amended bill.