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Read. Follow. Verify.North Dakota appropriates $114.7 million for Attorney General operations and raises official salary
Last action · June 11, 2025: Filed with Secretary Of State 05/19
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What This Bill Does
House Bill 1003 appropriates $114.7 million for the Attorney General's office for the 2025-2027 biennium, increases the annual salary of the Attorney General, and adjusts witness fee limits and sobriety program fee rules.
The measure allocates state funds across various law enforcement and investigative divisions, sets witness compensation caps at $30,000 per county, and establishes criminal history record check fees for the upcoming two-year budget cycle.
- House Bill 1003 is an appropriations measure introduced by the Appropriations Committee during the Sixty-ninth Legislative Assembly of North Dakota. context
- The Attorney General of North Dakota serves as the chief law enforcement officer of the state and heads the Office of Attorney General. context
Who It Affects
Groups the bill's text affects, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Attorney General's office
Receives biennial appropriations, position authorizations, and specific funding pools for litigation and grants.
State employees in the Attorney General's office
Salaries and wages funding lines are adjusted across divisions, and the Attorney General receives a specific salary increase.
Witnesses in civil and criminal cases
Witness attendance compensation is set at twenty-five dollars per day alongside travel and mileage expense reimbursements.
Participants in the twenty-four seven sobriety program
Program fees for testing and monitoring devices become mandatory, and judges are barred from waiving them.
Key Facts
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Current status: Signed into law with line-item vetoes.
Procedural history
34 actions- Jun 11, 2025Filed with Secretary Of State 05/19
- May 17, 2025HouseEnrolledSigned by Governor, but item veto 05/19
- May 2, 2025HouseEnrolledSent to Governor
- May 2, 2025HouseSigned by Speaker
- May 2, 2025SenateSigned by President
- May 2, 2025SenateFloorSecond reading, passed as amended, yeas 45 nays 2
Show 28 earlier actions
- May 2, 2025SenateCommitteeConference committee report adopted
- May 2, 2025SenateCommitteeReported back from conference committee, in place of, placed on calendar
- May 2, 2025HouseFloorSecond reading, passed, yeas 74 nays 12
- May 1, 2025HouseCommitteeConference committee report adopted
- May 1, 2025HouseCommitteeReported back from conference committee, in place of, placed on calendar
- May 1, 2025SenateCommitteeConference committee report rejected
- May 1, 2025SenateCommitteeReported back from conference committee, in place of, placed on calendar
- Apr 29, 2025HouseFloorSecond reading, passed, yeas 67 nays 23
- Apr 29, 2025HouseCommitteeConference committee report adopted
- Apr 29, 2025HouseCommitteeReported back from conference committee, in place of, placed on calendar
- Apr 25, 2025HouseCommitteeConference committee report rejected
- Apr 24, 2025HouseCommitteeReported back from conference committee, in place of, placed on calendar
- Apr 15, 2025SenateCommitteeConference committee appointed Sickler Dwyer Burckhard
- Apr 11, 2025HouseCommitteeConference committee appointed Nathe Louser Hanson
- Apr 11, 2025HouseRefused to concur
- Apr 9, 2025HouseReturned to House (12)
- Apr 8, 2025SenateFloorSecond reading, passed as amended, yeas 41 nays 5
- Apr 8, 2025SenateCommitteeAmendment adopted, placed on calendar
- Apr 7, 2025SenateCommitteeReported back amended, do pass, amendment placed on calendar 13 1 2
- Mar 12, 2025SenateCommitteeCommittee Hearing 08:30
- Feb 20, 2025SenateIntroduced, first reading, (emergency), referred Appropriations Committee
- Feb 19, 2025SenateReceived from House
- Feb 18, 2025HouseFloorSecond reading, passed, yeas 69 nays 21, Emergency clause carried
- Feb 17, 2025HouseCommitteeAmendment adopted, placed on calendar
- Feb 14, 2025HouseCommitteeReported back amended, do pass, amendment placed on calendar 20 0 3
- Jan 29, 2025HouseCommitteeCommittee Hearing 09:00
- Jan 13, 2025HouseCommitteeCommittee Hearing 02:00
- Jan 7, 2025HouseIntroducedIntroduced, first reading, referred Appropriations Committee
Version history
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Strategic Investment and Improvements Fund Allocation
The bill utilizes transfers from the strategic investment and improvements fund and the community health trust fund to support specific agency equipment and litigation pools.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance85How much this matters to a regular citizen
- Controversy15Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz25Current news / social attention level
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