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Votes at a glance: North Dakota Senate actions on Feb. 10, 2025
Summary
A roundup of bills the North Dakota Senate voted on Feb. 10, 2025, with results and brief descriptions of the measures and recorded outcomes.
The North Dakota Senate conducted votes on multiple bills and amendments on Feb. 10, 2025. Below are the floor outcomes and brief descriptions for measures that received final roll‑call tallies on that date.
Why this matters: The items below include appropriations, policy changes and study requests that affect state programs, infrastructure funding and tenant rights. Vote outcomes determine whether measures advance toward enactment or die in the Senate.
Votes at a glance
- Senate Bill 2,292 — Reimbursement for medical screenings and forensic examinations for sexual assault victims. Final tally: 47 ayes, 0 nays. Outcome: Passed. Sponsor/Presenter: Senator Cleary. Fiscal note: minimal impact. (Transcript: engrossed title and final tally.)
- Senate Bill 20,16 — Job Service North Dakota appropriation and budget adjustments. Final tally: 46 ayes, 1 nay. Outcome: Passed. Sponsor/Presenter: Senator Connolly. Housekeeping and vacancy/FTE funding adjustments described on the floor.
- Senate Bill 22,42 — Legislative management study relating to institutions of higher education. Final tally: 47 ayes, 0 nays. Outcome: Passed (study request to legislative management). Sponsor/Presenter: Senator Baucher.
- Senate Bill 2,238 — Sealing of eviction records (seven‑year sealing and protections for domestic‑violence victims). Final tally: 35 ayes, 12 nays. Outcome: Passed. Sponsor/Presenter: Senator Brownberger. Committee vote noted as 5–2 on amendment prior to passage.
- Senate Bill 2,009 — Appropriation for the State Fair Association (premiums, security, restroom funding). Final tally: 44 ayes, 3 nays. Outcome: Passed. Sponsor/Presenter: Senator Thomas. Appropriation included 1‑time security and restroom funds and base premium funding.
- Senate Bill 2,343 — Placement/location of beehives relative to state highways. Final tally: 4 ayes, 43 nays. Outcome: Failed.
- Senate Bill 2,276 — Mandating formation of joint water resource boards for projects affecting multiple counties (water governance). Final tally: 47 ayes, 0 nays. Outcome: Passed. Sponsor/Presenter: Senator Weber.
- Senate Bill 23,60 (SB 2,360) — Legislative management study regarding geothermal energy. Final tally: 47 ayes, 0 nays. Outcome: Passed. Sponsor/Presenter: Senator Gearhart. Committee reported 7–0 due pass; discussion cited Williston Basin potential.
- Senate Bill 2,322 — Eminent domain / common‑carrier status for CO2 pipelines (see separate article). Final tally: 21 ayes, 26 nays. Outcome: Failed after amendment narrowing scope to CO2 only.
- Senate Bill 2,306 — Childcare workforce recruitment and retention program (appropriation ~ $23,935,000 fiscal note). Final tally: 11 ayes, 36 nays, 1 not voting. Outcome: Failed. Sponsor/Presenter: Senator Wababa; committee recommended do‑not‑pass (4–0–1).
Notes on procedure and amendments
- Several bills received committee amendments on the floor and were placed on the eleventh order for final reading or re‑referral to appropriations prior to ultimate disposition. Where committee or floor amendments were adopted, the Senate clerk read the engrossed titles before final tally.
- If a bill’s final roll call was not recorded in the floor transcript excerpt provided, it is not included above.
Key bills awaiting further action or with committee referral
- Multiple bills (including those amended on the sixth order) were placed on the eleventh order of business for final reading or were re‑referred to Appropriations Committee; those items will appear on future calendars as indicated by the Senate clerk.
