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Read. Follow. Verify.North Dakota allows financial institutions to disclose customer information to the protection and advocacy project for suspected financial exploitation
Last action · March 20, 2025: Filed with Secretary Of State 03/18Sponsors: Dick Dever and 5 others
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What This Bill Does
Financial institutions in North Dakota are now permitted to disclose customer information to the when reporting suspected financial exploitation of an . The measure specifies that banks have no legal duty to investigate or report suspected exploitation.
Expands the entities authorized to receive confidential customer financial records from banks during suspected exploitation investigations, affecting financial institutions, vulnerable adults, and advocacy agencies.
Who It Affects
Groups the bill's text affects, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
financial institutions
Financial institutions gain explicit authorization to share customer information with the protection and advocacy project when reporting suspected financial exploitation, without incurring a mandatory duty to investigate.
protection and advocacy project
The project is added as an authorized entity to receive confidential customer disclosures from financial institutions when addressing suspected financial exploitation.
eligible adults
Vulnerable adults are subject to having their confidential financial records shared with advocacy agencies by financial institutions reporting suspected exploitation.
Key Facts
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Current status: Signed into law.
Procedural history
16 actions- Mar 20, 2025Filed with Secretary Of State 03/18
- Mar 18, 2025SenateEnrolledSigned by Governor 03/17
- Mar 14, 2025SenateEnrolledSent to Governor
- Mar 14, 2025SenateSigned by President
- Mar 14, 2025HouseSigned by Speaker
- Mar 11, 2025SenateReturned to Senate
Show 10 earlier actions
- Mar 10, 2025HouseFloorSecond reading, passed, yeas 93 nays 0
- Mar 7, 2025HouseCommitteeReported back, do pass, place on calendar 13 0 0
- Mar 5, 2025HouseCommitteeCommittee Hearing 03:30
- Feb 18, 2025HouseIntroducedIntroduced, first reading, referred Human Services Committee
- Feb 3, 2025HouseReceived from Senate
- Jan 31, 2025SenateFloorSecond reading, passed, yeas 44 nays 0
- Jan 30, 2025SenateCommitteeAmendment adopted, placed on calendar
- Jan 29, 2025SenateCommitteeReported back amended, do pass, amendment placed on calendar 6 0 0
- Jan 15, 2025SenateCommitteeCommittee Hearing 09:00
- Jan 10, 2025SenateIntroducedIntroduced, first reading, referred Human Services Committee
Version history
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance40How much this matters to a regular citizen
- Controversy10Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz15Current news / social attention level
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