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Read. Follow. Verify.North Dakota raises interstate speed limit to 80 mph and authorizes variable speed adjustment zones
Last action · June 11, 2025: Filed with Secretary Of State 05/06Sponsors: Ben Koppelman and 10 others
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What This Bill Does
North Dakota authorizes raising the maximum speed limit to 80 miles per hour on access-controlled, paved, and divided multilane interstate highways, and permits the highway director to establish s. The law also sets updated statutory fees for traffic violations, restricts speed limit reductions in construction zones, and mandates a legislative study on the driver's license points system.
Drivers traveling on qualifying interstate highways face a higher maximum speed limit, while motorists caught speeding or committing other traffic infractions are subject to revised statutory fee schedules and potential city fines.
- The North Dakota Legislative Assembly convenes biennially in regular sessions, such as the Sixty-ninth Legislative Assembly commencing in January 2025. context
- North Dakota statutory traffic and vehicle regulations are codified within Title 39 and Title 40 of the North Dakota Century Code. 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.
Drivers on state and interstate highways
Drivers are subject to a new maximum interstate speed limit of 80 miles per hour, variable speed limit adjustments, and updated statutory fee schedules for traffic infractions.
Motor carriers
Motor carriers and commercial drivers are subject to specific statutory fee structures for hours-of-service and out-of-service safety violations.
Local law enforcement
Local law enforcement agencies must participate with the highway patrol in an interim study of the driver's license points system and traffic fee schedule.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Current status: Signed into law.
Procedural history
31 actions- Jun 11, 2025Filed with Secretary Of State 05/06
- May 17, 2025HouseEnrolledSigned by Governor 05/05
- May 2, 2025HouseEnrolledSent to Governor
- May 2, 2025HouseSigned by Speaker
- May 2, 2025SenateSigned by President
- May 2, 2025SenateFloorSecond reading, passed as amended, yeas 27 nays 20
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- May 2, 2025SenateCommitteeConference committee report adopted
- May 2, 2025SenateCommitteeReported back from conference committee, in place of, placed on calendar
- May 1, 2025HouseFloorSecond reading, passed, yeas 54 nays 36
- May 1, 2025HouseReconsidered
- May 1, 2025HouseSecond reading, failed, lacks constitutional majority yeas 46 nays 45
- May 1, 2025HouseCommitteeConference committee report adopted
- May 1, 2025HouseCommitteeReported back from conference committee, in place of, placed on calendar
- Apr 24, 2025SenateCommitteeConference committee appointed Rummel Hogan Klein
- Apr 23, 2025HouseAppoint Rep. Dressler to replace Rep. Kasper on conference committee
- Apr 22, 2025HouseCommitteeConference committee appointed Koppelman Kasper Morton
- Apr 22, 2025HouseRefused to concur
- Apr 18, 2025HouseReturned to House (12)
- Apr 18, 2025SenateFloorSecond reading, passed as amended, yeas 28 nays 18
- Apr 18, 2025SenateFloorDivision B passed
- Apr 18, 2025SenateFloorDivision A passed
- Apr 18, 2025SenateDivision of bill
- Apr 18, 2025SenateCommitteeAmendment adopted, placed on calendar
- Apr 17, 2025SenateCommitteeReported back amended, do pass, amendment placed on calendar 4 2 0
- Mar 6, 2025SenateCommitteeCommittee Hearing 09:30
- Feb 17, 2025SenateIntroducedIntroduced, first reading, referred Transportation Committee
- Jan 27, 2025SenateReceived from House
- Jan 24, 2025HouseFloorSecond reading, passed, yeas 69 nays 22
- Jan 23, 2025HouseCommitteeReported back, do pass, place on calendar 13 0 1
- Jan 23, 2025HouseCommitteeCommittee Hearing 02:00
- Jan 13, 2025HouseIntroducedIntroduced, first reading, referred Transportation Committee
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Interstate Speed Limit Increase
The legislation formally raises the top legal speed limit on qualifying North Dakota interstates to 80 miles per hour and introduces real-time variable speed adjustments.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance75How much this matters to a regular citizen
- Controversy35Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment10Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz40Current news / social attention level
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