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House approves tax commissioner budget including reduced rollout funds for primary residence credit
Summary
The North Dakota House adopted the conference committee report and passed House Bill 1,006, funding the tax commissioner’s office and adjusting the rollout funding for the primary residence credit and other line items.
The North Dakota House of Representatives adopted the conference committee report and passed House Bill 1,006 on a final vote of 87 yeas and 3 nays, approving the budget for the Office of the Tax Commissioner.
Representative Pyle, the House conferee, told the chamber the bill funds the tax commissioner's operations and makes several line-item adjustments. “This is the tax commissioner's budget that we worked on,” Pyle said during debate, noting reclassification funds and reductions the committee agreed to.
The conference committee agreed to reclassification funding listed as two line items of $215,000 and $215,011 for certain department positions, and it reduced an appropriation to roll out the primary residence credit from $1,500,000 to $1,000,000. Pyle said the change reflects a decision to build on an existing program rather than fund a larger new rollout. He also said the committee removed language establishing a cooperative-ownership primary residence tax credit that had been considered earlier in the session.
The enacted bill, as read on the floor, also addresses salary language for the tax commissioner and contains routine line-item transfers tied to the homestead tax credit and disabled veterans tax credit. The clerk recorded final passage after the roll call.
No additional enactments or directives beyond the appropriation and line-item adjustments were adopted on the House floor for House Bill 1,006 during this session.
Members who spoke on the bill framed the changes as budgetary adjustments rather than policy shifts; Representative Pyle asked members for a “green vote” when moving the conference committee report for adoption. The measure passed and will proceed to the next steps of the legislative process.
Details of specific line items, including the reclassification amounts and the reduced rollout funding for the primary residence credit, were stated on the record. Further administrative implementation of the approved funds is subject to executive branch processes and any statutory requirements listed in the enrolled bill and referenced North Dakota Century Code sections.
