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Read. Follow. Verify.North Dakota bill modifies committee authority to void administrative rules
Last action · April 8, 2025: Second reading, failed to pass, yeas 22 nays 24Sponsors: Ben Koppelman and 8 others
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What This Bill Proposed
HB 1368 alters the timeline and specific criteria under which the legislative management's administrative rules committee may find an administrative rule void. The bill establishes that a rule must be initially considered by the committee not later than the fifteenth day of the month before the date of the .
- The North Dakota Century Code contains the permanent general and permanent laws of North Dakota, within which Title 28 governs judicial procedure and administrative agencies. context
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Administrative Rules Committee
The committee receives updated procedural timelines and criteria for reviewing and voiding state administrative rules.
State agencies
Agency-promulgated rules become subject to the revised review timeline and specific statutory grounds for invalidation by the legislative committee.
Key Facts
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Failed in the Senate.
Procedural history
12 actions- Apr 8, 2025SenateSecond reading, failed to pass, yeas 22 nays 24
- Apr 8, 2025SenateCommitteeAmendment adopted
- Apr 8, 2025SenateCommitteeAmendment proposed on floor
- Apr 4, 2025SenateCommitteeReported back, do not pass, placed on calendar 4 2 0
- Mar 27, 2025SenateCommitteeCommittee Hearing 09:00
- Feb 13, 2025SenateIntroducedIntroduced, first reading, referred State and Local Government Committee
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- Feb 6, 2025SenateReceived from House
- Feb 5, 2025HouseFloorSecond reading, passed, yeas 84 nays 7
- Feb 3, 2025HouseCommitteeAmendment adopted, placed on calendar
- Jan 31, 2025HouseCommitteeReported back amended, do pass, amendment placed on calendar 11 0 2
- Jan 30, 2025HouseCommitteeCommittee Hearing 03:00
- Jan 13, 2025HouseIntroducedIntroduced, first reading, referred Political Subdivisions Committee
Version history
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 45)
- Controversy30Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz20Current news / social attention level
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