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Votes at a glance: key Senate roll calls and final actions from Tuesday
Summary
A roundup of final votes and outcomes for bills and resolutions considered on the Senate floor, including which measures passed and which failed.
The North Dakota Senate completed votes on a range of bills and resolutions during Tuesday’s floor session. The most consequential final tallies included increases to driver’s license fees, changes to land-leases authority, hunting-tag flexibility for youth, and multiple defeated property-tax proposals. Below are key final results recorded on the floor:
- Senate Bill 23-81 (driver’s license fee increases): Passed, final tally 40 ayes, 7 nays.
- Senate Bill 23-02 (board of university and school lands authority, adding rare-earth/critical mineral leasing authority): Passed, final tally 45 ayes, 2 nays.
- Senate Bill 23-09 (youth deer hunting permits, allow inclusion of mule deer where authorized): Passed, final tally 47 ayes, 0 nays.
- Senate Bill 20-71 (Board of Counselor Examiners fee changes, duplicate license/technology fee): Passed, final tally 46 ayes, 1 nay.
- Senate Bill 23-31 (Theodore Roosevelt National Park working group): Failed, final tally 14 ayes, 33 nays (covered in separate story).
- Senate Bill 22-98 (property tax/homestead and related changes): Failed, final tally 8 ayes, 39 nays.
- Senate Bill 23-01 (homestead tax credit change): Failed, final tally 6 ayes, 41 nays.
- Senate Bill 22-79 (state aid/school mills adjustment): Failed, final tally 6 ayes, 41 nays.
- Senate Bill 23-00 (mandatory secure storage of students’ personal electronic devices — note: bill number shown in the record as 2,300): Failed, final tally 2 ayes, 45 nays.
- Senate Bill 22-66 (appropriation to the private investigators and security board): Failed, final tally 7 ayes, 40 nays.
- Senate Concurrent Resolution 4,006 (urge Congress to establish federal protections for the wild horse herd at Theodore Roosevelt National Park): Passed (floor vote recorded as passage).
- Senate Concurrent Resolution 4,021 (urging the federal government to end the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program): Passed (floor vote recorded as passage).
Several committee amendments and proposed amendments were also adopted earlier in the session and re-referred to appropriations where indicated (for example, property-tax relief and school-related amendments). Where only tallies were recorded on the floor, this roundup lists the official totals as announced by the secretary at the time of adjournment.
