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Votes at a glance: North Dakota Senate passes multiple bills, rejects one on school cardiac training
Summary
The North Dakota Senate passed a series of bills on topics from emergency-vehicle penalties to tourism designation and rejected one education-related bill during its floor session.
The North Dakota Senate took final action on a slate of bills during its floor session. Major outcomes:
- Senate Bill 2132 (careless driving causing injury to operator of authorized emergency vehicle): Passed, final tally 47-0. The bill amends section 39-09-01 of the North Dakota Century Code to make striking an authorized emergency vehicle an infraction similar to the existing penalty for striking a snowplow when damage exceeds $1,000 or causes injury. Committee testimony from the Highway Patrol documented multiple crashes to department vehicles and argued for stronger penalties and parity with protections for snowplow operators.
- Senate Bill 2196 (student self-administration of asthma or anaphylaxis medication): Passed, final tally 47-0. Sponsors described the bill as a technical…
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