North Dakota House passes employee-pay resolution and a package of bills on adoption, courts, victims, licensure and highways

BISMARCK — The North Dakota House of Representatives approved a package of measures on Jan. 20, 2025, including a senate concurrent resolution that designates legislative employee positions and daily pay rates and a series of bills affecting adoption and child-placing agencies, municipal courts, victim notification, speech-language licensure, a memorial highway designation and repeal of an unused multistate transportation statute.

The most immediate action was the passage of Senate Concurrent Resolution 4005, which lists specific house and senate employee positions and sets daily wages for the 69th legislative assembly. The resolution, recommended by the procedural employment committee, was moved for immediate consideration and passed by voice and final vote (88–0). The resolution specifies daily pay rates such as $239 per day for the chief clerk, $213 for assistant chief clerk and calendar clerk, $228 for the journal reporter, $190 for sergeant at arms and a $1-per-day longevity increment for prior sessions up to $10 per day. The resolution also directs committees to identify each employee and permits conversion of positions to part-time with hourly pay where approved by the employment committee.

Other bills taken up and passed on final consideration included:

- House Bill 1120 (passed 88–0): An agency bill from the Department of Health and Human Services, handled by the Human Services Committee, that updates North Dakota Century Code provisions on the Revised Uniform Adoption Act and child-placing agencies. Committee presenters…