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North Dakota House Bill HB1311

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1-Sixty-ninth Legislative Assembly of North Dakota
2-In Regular Session Commencing Tuesday, January 7, 2025
1+25.0193.01000
2+Sixty-ninth
3+Legislative Assembly
4+of North Dakota
5+Introduced by
6+Representatives Satrom, Brandenburg, Grueneich, Ostlie
7+Senators Conley, Erbele
8+A BILL for an Act to provide for a legislative management study regarding volunteer emergency
9+responder recruitment and retention.
10+BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA:
11+SECTION 1. LEGISLATIVE MANAGEMENT STUDY - VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY
12+RESPONDER RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION. During the 2025-26 interim, the legislative
13+management shall consider studying volunteer emergency responder recruitment and retention.
14+The study must consider recruitment and retention challenges related to volunteer emergency
15+responders, including firefighters, emergency or disaster volunteers, and community emergency
16+response team members, and identify strategies for encouraging volunteerism. The study also
17+must include input from stakeholders, including disaster emergency organizations, nonprofit
18+associations, representatives of law enforcement, emergency medical service providers, and
19+state and local agencies, departments, and institutions. The legislative management shall report
20+its findings and recommendations, together with any legislation required to implement the
21+recommendations, to the seventieth legislative assembly.
22+Page No. 1 25.0193.01000
323 HOUSE BILL NO. 1311
4-(Representatives Satrom, Brandenburg, Grueneich, Ostlie)
5-(Senators Conley, Erbele)
6-AN ACT to provide for a legislative management study, relating to volunteer emergency responder
7-recruitment and retention.
8-BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA:
9-SECTION 1. LEGISLATIVE MANAGEMENT STUDY - VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY RESPONDER
10-RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION. During the 2025-26 interim, the legislative management shall
11-consider studying volunteer emergency responder recruitment and retention. The study must consider
12-recruitment and retention challenges related to volunteer emergency responders, including firefighters,
13-emergency or disaster volunteers, and community emergency response team members, and identify
14-strategies for encouraging volunteerism. The study also must include input from stakeholders, including
15-disaster emergency organizations, nonprofit associations, representatives of law enforcement,
16-emergency medical service providers, and state and local agencies, departments, and institutions. The
17-legislative management shall report its findings and recommendations, together with any legislation
18-required to implement the recommendations, to the seventieth legislative assembly. H. B. NO. 1311 - PAGE 2
19-____________________________ ____________________________
20-Speaker of the House President of the Senate
21-____________________________ ____________________________
22-Chief Clerk of the House Secretary of the Senate
23-This certifies that the within bill originated in the House of Representatives of the Sixty-ninth Legislative
24-Assembly of North Dakota and is known on the records of that body as House Bill No. 1311.
25-House Vote: Yeas 85 Nays 3 Absent 6
26-Senate Vote:Yeas 44 Nays 1 Absent 2
27-____________________________
28-Chief Clerk of the House
29-Received by the Governor at ________M. on _____________________________________, 2025.
30-Approved at ________M. on __________________________________________________, 2025.
31-____________________________
32-Governor
33-Filed in this office this ___________day of _______________________________________, 2025,
34-at ________ o’clock ________M.
35-____________________________
36-Secretary of State
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