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Votes at a glance: Senate passes multiple funding and oversight bills including crisis hotline, value‑added dairy loan, and development fund audit
Summary
In a series of recorded roll calls on April 22, 2025, the North Dakota Senate passed several bills with minimal floor debate: funding for a suicide/crisis hotline, authorization for a Bank of North Dakota line of credit for a value‑added milk processing facility incentive, audits of the Development Fund, and multiple agency appropriation bills.
The North Dakota Senate recorded final passage of several bills on April 22, 2025. The measures passed with the following tallies and notable points:
- Senate Bill 2,200 (appropriation to Department of Health and Human Services for crisis hotline operations): Final tally 46 ayes, 1 nay. Sponsor Senator Barta said the bill provides $500,000 for continued operation of the suicide/crisis hotline.
- Senate Bill 23‑42 (value‑added milk processing facility incentive program): Final tally 44 ayes, 3 nays. The bill authorizes a Bank of North Dakota line of credit and the House reduced the appropriation from $10,000,000 to $5,000,000; the Senate concurred with the house amendments.
- Senate Bill 2,001 (legislative branch appropriation bill, conference committee report adopted): Final tally 45 ayes, 2 nays. Conference committee changes included designation of the 15th floor for legislative council use and other housekeeping changes tied to previously passed legislation.
- Senate Bill 20‑11 (highway patrol appropriation bill): Final tally 47 ayes, 0 nays. Conference committee report adopted with technical fund shifts and clarifications noted by committee chair.
- Senate Bill 20‑13 (Commissioner of University and School Lands appropriation; trust lands): Final tally 45 ayes, 2 nays. Conference committee accepted three house amendments including an unclaimed property compliance officer and a footnote encouraging collaboration on revenue diversification.
- Senate Bill 2,396 (performance audit and appropriations for North Dakota Development Fund): Final tally 44 ayes, 3 nays; emergency clause carried. Conference changes clarified audit timing and moved procurement authority to the auditor's office to allow third‑party audits; sponsor described the audit period as covering 07/01/2019 to 06/30/2024 and a $250,000 appropriation for the audit.
The Senate also adopted several conference committee reports and concurred with House amendments on multiple bills during the same floor session. Many of these measures were described on the floor as technical or conference‑driven adjustments to appropriations previously considered by the body.
Votes were recorded in the public roll calls and appear in the Senate journal and public audio/video records for April 22, 2025.
