North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session

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2	2	Sixty-ninth
3	3	Legislative Assembly
4	4	of North Dakota
5	5	Introduced by
6	6	Representatives Kasper, Brandenburg, Koppelman, D. Ruby, Kempenich, Motschenbacher
7	7	Senator Mathern
8	8	A concurrent resolution to amend and reenact sections 7 and 13 of article IV of the Constitution
9	9	of North Dakota, relating to sessions of the legislative assembly; and to provide an effective
10	10	date.
11	11	STATEMENT OF INTENT
12	12	This measure would authorize the legislative assembly to meet in a regular session annually or
13	13	biennially for a maximum of one hundred days during the biennium and provides these changes
14	14	will take effect on January 1, 2027.
15	15	BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF NORTH DAKOTA, THE
16	16	SENATE CONCURRING THEREIN:
17	17	That the following proposed amendments to sections 7 and 13 of article IV of the
18	18	Constitution of North Dakota are agreed to and must be submitted to the qualified electors of
19	19	North Dakota at the general election to be held in 2026, in accordance with section 16 of
20	20	article IV of the Constitution of North Dakota.
21	21	SECTION 1. AMENDMENT. Section 7 of article IV of the Constitution of North Dakota is
22	22	amended and reenacted as follows:
23	23	Section 7. The terms of members of the legislative assembly begin on the first day of
24	24	December following their election.
25	25	The legislative assembly shall meet at the seat of government in the month of December
26	26	following the election of the members thereof for organizational and orientation purposes as
27	27	provided by law and shall thereafter recess until twelve noon on the first Tuesday after the third
28	28	day in January or at such other time as may be prescribed by law but not later than the eleventh
29	29	day of January.
30	30	No regular session of theThe legislative assembly may exceed eighty natural daysmeet
31	31	annually or biennially during the biennium for up to one hundred natural days, as determined by
32	32	the legislative management. The organizational meeting of the legislative assembly may not be
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62	62	counted as part of those eightyone hundred natural days, nor may days spent in session at the
63	63	call of the governor or while engaged in impeachment proceedings, be counted. Days spent in
64	64	regular session need not be consecutive, and the legislative assembly may authorize its
65	65	committees to meet at any time during the biennium. As used in this section, a "natural day"
66	66	means a period of twenty-four consecutive hours.
67	67	NeitherA house may not recess nor adjourn for more than three days without consent of the
68	68	other house.
69	69	SECTION 2. AMENDMENT. Section 13 of article IV of the Constitution of North Dakota is
70	70	amended and reenacted as follows:
71	71	Section 13. Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and a recorded vote on any
72	72	question shall be taken at the request of one-sixth of those members present. NoA bill may not
73	73	become law except by a recorded vote of a majority of the members elected to each house, and
74	74	the lieutenant governor is considered a member-elect of the senate when the lieutenant
75	75	governor votes.
76	76	NoA law may not be enacted except by a bill passed by both houses, and noa bill may not
77	77	be amended on its passage through either house in a manner which changes its general
78	78	subject matter. NoA bill may not embrace more than one subject, which must be expressed in
79	79	its title; but a law violating this provision is invalid only to the extent the subject is not so
80	80	expressed.
81	81	Every bill must be read on two separate natural days, and the readings may be by title only
82	82	unless a reading at length is demanded by one-fifth of the members present.
83	83	NoA bill may not be amended, extended, or incorporated in any other bill by reference to its
84	84	title only, except in the case of definitions and procedural provisions.
85	85	The presiding officer of each house shall sign all bills passed and resolutions adopted by
86	86	the legislative assembly, and the fact of signing shall be entered at once in the journal.
87	87	Every law, except as otherwise provided in this section, enacted by the legislative assembly
88	88	during its eightyone hundred natural meeting days takes effect on August first after its filing with
89	89	the secretary of state, or if filed on or after August first and before January first of the following
90	90	year ninety days after its filing, or on a subsequent date if specified in the law unless, by a vote
91	91	of two-thirds of the members elected to each house, the legislative assembly declares it an
92	92	emergency measure and includes the declaration in the Act. Every appropriation measure for
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126	126	support and maintenance of state departments and institutions and every tax measure that
127	127	changes tax rates enacted by the legislative assembly take effect on July first after its filing with
128	128	the secretary of state or on a subsequent date if specified in the law unless, by a vote of
129	129	two-thirds of the members elected to each house, the legislative assembly declares it an
130	130	emergency measure and includes the declaration in the Act. An emergency measure takes
131	131	effect upon its filing with the secretary of state or on a date specified in the measure. Every law
132	132	enacted by a special session of the legislative assembly takes effect on a date specified in the
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134	134	The legislative assembly shall enact all laws necessary to carry into effect the provisions of
135	135	this constitution. Except as otherwise provided in this constitution, no local or special laws may
136	136	be enacted, nor may the legislative assembly indirectly enact special or local laws by the partial
137	137	repeal of a general law but laws repealing local or special laws may be enacted.
138	138	SECTION 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. If approved by the electors, this measure becomes
139	139	effective on January 1, 2027.
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