Sixty-ninth Legislative Assembly of North Dakota
In Regular Session Commencing Tuesday, January 7, 2025
SENATE BILL NO. 2135
(Senators Klein, Erbele, Kessel, Schaible)
(Representatives Pyle, Brandenburg)
AN ACT to amend and reenact subsection 2 of section 18-04-05 and section 18-05.1-02 of the North
Dakota Century Code, relating to the firefighters death benefits fund.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA:
SECTION 1. AMENDMENT. Subsection 2 of section 18-04-05 of the North Dakota Century Code is
amended and reenacted as follows:
2.The insurance commissioner shall transfer an amount of up to fifty thousandone hundred
twenty - five thousand dollars per biennium, as may be necessary, to the firefighters death
benefit fund for distribution under chapter 18-05.1.
SECTION 2. AMENDMENT. Section 18-05.1-02 of the North Dakota Century Code is amended and
reenacted as follows:
18-05.1-02. Payments from firefighters death benefit fund.
The insurance commissioner shall pay ten thousandtwenty - five thousand dollars to a deceased
firefighter's survivor upon receipt of a request for payment and evidence of a line of duty death from the
fire chief or the fire chief's designee of a city fire department, rural fire department, or rural fire
protection district. S. B. NO. 2135 - PAGE 2
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
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Secretary of the Senate Chief Clerk of the House
This certifies that the within bill originated in the Senate of the Sixty-ninth Legislative Assembly of North
Dakota and is known on the records of that body as Senate Bill No. 2135.
Senate Vote:Yeas 47 Nays 0 Absent 0
House Vote: Yeas 93 Nays 0 Absent 1
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Secretary of the Senate
Received by the Governor at ________M. on _____________________________________, 2025.
Approved at ________M. on __________________________________________________, 2025.
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Governor
Filed in this office this ___________day of _______________________________________, 2025,
at ________ o’clock ________M.
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Secretary of State