North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session

North Dakota Senate Bill SB2349 Compare Versions

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1	1	25.1023.01000
2	2	Sixty-ninth
3	3	Legislative Assembly
4	4	of North Dakota
5	5	Introduced by
6	6	Senators Castaneda, Cory, Hogue
7	7	Representatives Louser, M. Ruby
8	8	A BILL for an Act to create and enact a new section to chapter 54-03 of the North Dakota
9	9	Century Code, relating to limitations on the introduction of legislative bills prepared by executive
10	10	branch agencies and the judicial branch.
11	11	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA:
12	12	SECTION 1. A new section to chapter 54-03 of the North Dakota Century Code is created
13	13	and enacted as follows:
14	14	Introduction of bills prepared by executive branch agencies and judicial branch -
15	15	Determination by the legislative management.
16	16	1.As used in this section, "substantial policy change" means an alteration or modification
17	17	to a statute which renders the statute significantly different or transformed.
18	18	2.On or before November first of each even - numbered year, each executive agency and
19	19	the supreme court may file with the legislative council any bill draft the agency desires
20	20	to introduce during the regular legislative session. A bill draft filed under this section
21	21	may not provide for an appropriation.
22	22	3.Upon receipt of a bill draft under subsection 2, the legislative council shall forward the
23	23	bill draft to the chairman of the legislative management.
24	24	4.On or before November twentieth of each even - numbered year, the chairman of the
25	25	legislative management shall call a meeting of the legislative management to review
26	26	each bill draft filed by an executive agency or the supreme court to determine whether
27	27	the bill draft contains a substantial policy change.
28	28	5.A bill is deemed introduced by the legislative management unless a majority of the
29	29	members present and voting determine the bill draft contains a substantial policy
30	30	change.
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