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Read. Follow. Verify.North Dakota eliminates licensing and fees for video livestock auction market representatives
Last action · March 20, 2025: Filed with Secretary Of State 03/18Sponsors: Robert Erbele and 5 others
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What This Bill Does
North Dakota allows video and internet livestock auction markets to transact business if they operate through a representative licensed under the chapter, while repealing specific licensing and fee requirements for individual representatives.
The measure changes regulatory requirements for livestock sales by removing specific licensing and fee statutes for market representatives while maintaining that the auction market itself must use a licensed representative.
Who It Affects
Groups the bill's text affects, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Video livestock auction markets
Must transact business through a representative licensed under the chapter.
Internet livestock auction markets
Must transact business through a representative licensed under the chapter.
Video livestock auction market representatives
Specific licensing and fee sections previously applicable to them under sections 4.1-28-03 and 4.1-28-04 are repealed.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Current status: Signed into law.
Procedural history
15 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 9 earlier actions
- Mar 10, 2025HouseFloorSecond reading, passed, yeas 93 nays 0
- Mar 7, 2025HouseCommitteeReported back, do pass, place on calendar 14 0 0
- Mar 6, 2025HouseCommitteeCommittee Hearing 02:00
- Feb 18, 2025HouseIntroducedIntroduced, first reading, referred Agriculture Committee
- Feb 4, 2025HouseReceived from Senate
- Feb 3, 2025SenateFloorSecond reading, passed, yeas 46 nays 0
- Jan 31, 2025SenateCommitteeReported back, do pass, place on calendar 6 0 0
- Jan 31, 2025SenateCommitteeCommittee Hearing 09:30
- Jan 20, 2025SenateIntroducedIntroduced, first reading, referred Agriculture and Veterans Affairs Committee
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- Controversy10Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
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