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N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – The Senate Government and Veterans Affairs Committee is studying a bill to take the name and location of the Jamestown State Hospital out of the state’s Constitution.

The committee held a hearing on that proposal. No one showed up to speak either for or against the measure. But it’s raising some questions.

Jerry Jurena is the president of the North Dakota Hospital Association.

Dr. Rosalie Etherington is the superintendent of the state Hospital. She says the hospital has 85 beds for mentally ill and addicted patients who have failed treatment elsewhere. She says there are 106 separate addiction treatment beds and there are 52 individuals who are treated in a sex offender treatment unit.

The Committee took no immediate action.