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Votes at a glance: North Dakota Senate actions on April 9, 2025
Summary
A compact roundup of bills considered April 9 by the North Dakota Senate, listing final outcomes and key tallies or notes where the transcript did not specify numbers.
The North Dakota Senate took final action on a package of bills on April 9, 2025. Below is a concise list of each bill considered on final passage, with recorded tallies or notes derived from the floor transcript.
Votes at a glance
- House Bill 1003 (Attorney General appropriations, electronic smoking device registry, litigation pool): Passed — final tally recorded 41 ayes, 5 nays, 1 absent. (See separate article for details.)
- House Bill 1297 (Prohibit approval voting and ranked-choice voting): Passed — final tally recorded 38 ayes, 8 nays, 1 absent. The bill prohibits approval voting and ranked-choice voting in North Dakota elections and amends home-rule code provisions.
- House Bill 1265 (State Information Technology Research Center / AI center): Failed — final tally recorded 13 ayes, 33 nays, 1 absent. The Senate Education Committee reported the bill without recommendation; funding was not included in the enrolled text.
- House Bill 1191 (Create Office of Entrepreneurship within Department of Commerce): Failed — final tally recorded 18 ayes, 28 nays, 1 absent.
- House Bill 1026 (Change administration of state bonding fund to Office of Management and Budget): Passed — final tally recorded 44 ayes, 2 nays, 1 absent.
- House Bill 1223 (Expand suspension/expulsion authority for K–12 districts): Passed — final tally recorded 45 ayes, 1 nay, 1 absent.
- House Bill 1531 (Irrigation expansion study for Agriculture Commissioner — $75,000 appropriation): Passed — final tally recorded 45 ayes, 1 nay, 1 absent.
- House Bill 1387 (Require school closures when used as polling places if contact cannot be avoided): Failed — final tally recorded 0 ayes, 46 nays, 1 absent.
- House Bill 1219 (Perpetual care cemetery set-aside change from 20% to 10%): Vote/tally not clearly recorded in the transcript segment provided; transcript text describes debate and committee discussion but the final tally line was garbled and not specified in the available floor excerpt.
- House Bill 1479 (Designation of North Dakota Constitution Day): Passed — final tally recorded 45 ayes, 1 nay, 1 absent.
- House Bill 1368 (Administrative rules committee language changes; amendment changed "and" to "or" between arbitrary/capricious): Amendment passed on a verification vote, but the bill on final passage failed — final tally recorded 22 ayes, 24 nays, 1 absent; the bill is lost.
- House Bill 1510 (Financial planning for new teachers and on-site childcare; studies): Failed — final tally recorded 22 ayes, 24 nays, 1 absent.
- House Bill 1254 (Expand state library card eligibility to all North Dakotans): Passed — final tally recorded 46 ayes, 0 nays, 1 absent.
Other procedural action
- The Senate adopted the report of the committee on correction and revision of the journal earlier in the session.
- Senator Klein moved that House Bill 1556 be laid over one legislative day; the motion was adopted.
Notes on source and method: Tallies and outcomes are taken verbatim from the provided Senate floor transcript. Where the transcript excerpt did not include an intelligible final tally line (for example, House Bill 12 19 / 1219), the article lists the vote as "not specified."
