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Votes at a glance: House action on multiple senate bills, April 1, 2025
Summary
The North Dakota House advanced a series of Senate bills on April 1, 2025. This roundup lists each measure taken up on the fourteenth order of business, the outcome recorded on the floor and any key floor notes.
The House completed final consideration on multiple Senate measures on April 1, 2025. Below are the bills the chamber recorded action on during the fourteenth order of business, with final tallies where the clerk recorded them on the floor.
- Senate Bill 21-17 (abandoned mine land reclamation): Final vote shows 89 yea, 0 nay. Committee and floor sponsors said the bill updates state law to match federal requirements and make the state eligible for certain federal reclamation funds.
- Senate Bill 21-55 (pronghorn license allocation): Final vote shows 75 yea, 14 nay. Sponsors said the bill establishes a 50/50 allocation of pronghorn licenses between gratis and lottery hunters and provides a mechanism for unsuccessful gratis applicants to be entered into the lottery.
- Senate Bill 21-20 (transfer to Highway Patrol Troopers Retirement System Fund): Final vote shows 83 yea, 6 nay. Sponsors described a $15 million cash infusion to an underfunded defined-benefit fund for highway patrol retirees and active employees.
- Senate Bill 20-17 (appropriation for Office of Administrative Hearings): Final vote shows 86 yay, 3 nays. The bill authorizes operating expenses and a line of credit to stabilize cash flow for the self-funded office.
- Senate Bill 21-47 (higher education scholarships and loan-repayment programs): Final vote shows 55 yea, 33 nay. The bill expands the Career Builders program and creates a $2 million supplemental state grant targeted to students with the highest financial need.
- Senate Bill 21-80 (public comment opportunities at public meetings): Final vote shows 85 yea, 4 nay. Committee amendments narrow the covered governing bodies and allow entities to set time limits and policies for public comment.
- Senate Bill 23-34 (definition of alcoholic beverage establishment for gaming): Committee recommended amendments and a due-pass; final passage was declared on the floor (tally not specified in the floor text captured here). The bill adds licensed brewer taprooms to the definition and requests a legislative study of charities owning drinking establishments used for gaming.
Other procedural motions recorded on the floor:
- Senate Bill 22-18 was laid over three legislative days on a motion by Representative Bosch (motion carried). - Representative Bosch moved to return Senate Bill 2051 to the House floor from the Appropriations Committee; the motion carried and the bill was placed on the fourteenth order of business.
This roundup lists floor tallies as recorded by the chief clerk during the session. If a final roll-call tally was not audible or clearly recorded in the transcript, the entry is marked “not specified.”
