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Judiciary committee approves technical corrections bill for ND Century Code (14-0)
Summary
The House Judiciary Committee recommended a do-pass on House Bill 1031, the legislative council's technical corrections bill, by voice/roll-call vote 14-0. The bill merges and fixes outdated cross-references across multiple code sections.
Senator Yana Bridal, interim judiciary chair, and Megan Gordon, coder advisor at Legislative Council, presented House Bill 1031, the session's technical corrections bill, to the House Judiciary Committee.
Gordon summarized the measure as a package of noncontroversial updates meant to correct "improper, inaccurate, redundant, missing, or obsolete references" in the North Dakota Century Code. She told the committee the bill merges 14 scattered definition sections into a single definitions list, removes references to repealed sections, fixes typographical cross-reference errors, updates agency and committee names (for example the Midcontinent Independent System Operator), and repeals the old individual definition sections to reflect the consolidations.
Committee members had no substantive objections during the hearing. Representative (not specified) moved a do-pass recommendation and the committee voted by roll call. The motion passed 14 to 0. The committee discussed placing the bill on the consent calendar; members debated the practice and whether unanimous consent should be required for consent-calendar placement. The committee recessed after approving the do-pass recommendation.
