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Read. Follow. Verify.North Dakota Expands Veteran Benefit Eligibility for Surviving Spouses Receiving VA Compensation
Last action · March 19, 2025: Filed with Secretary Of State 03/14Sponsors: Brandy Pyle and 6 others
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What This Bill Does
North Dakota House Bill 1180 expands eligibility for veteran earned benefits—including tuition waivers, employment preferences, motor vehicle fee exemptions, property tax credits, and excise tax exemptions—to surviving spouses receiving VA , establishing that retroactive disability determinations are presumed to precede the veteran's death.
Surviving spouses who receive VA can now access state-provided property tax credits, vehicle registration fee exemptions, motor vehicle excise tax exemptions, higher education tuition waivers, and employment preferences, with property tax changes applying to taxable years after December 31, 2024.
- House Bill 1180 was introduced during the Sixty-ninth Legislative Assembly of North Dakota in regular session commencing January 7, 2025. context
- The North Dakota Century Code contains the codified general and permanent laws of North Dakota. 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.
Surviving spouses receiving VA dependency and indemnity compensation
Surviving spouses receiving VA dependency and indemnity compensation become eligible for property tax credits, motor vehicle fee and excise tax exemptions, employment preferences, and higher education tuition waivers.
Disabled veterans and their dependents
Veterans and dependents have updated statutory criteria governing eligibility for earned state benefits, employment preferences, and vehicle exemptions.
Key Facts
- Expands higher education tuition waiver dependent definitions to include surviving spouses receiving United States Department of Veterans Affairs dependency and indemnity compensation.
- Grants state employment preferences to spouses of 100 percent disabled veterans when the veteran is unable to exercise that preference.
- Allows surviving spouses receiving VA dependency and indemnity compensation to claim motor vehicle registration fee exemptions for one vehicle.
- Provides a one-hundred-percent property tax credit on homestead taxable valuation for surviving spouses receiving VA dependency and indemnity compensation.
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- Exempts motor vehicles acquired or leased by qualifying surviving spouses from motor vehicle excise taxes.
- Establishes that if a disability or service-connected death determination is made after the veteran's death due to a retroactive law change, the determination is presumed to have preceded the veteran's death for benefit qualification.
- Specifies that Section 4 (property tax credits) applies to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2024.
- Specifies that Section 5 (motor vehicle excise tax exemptions) applies to taxable events occurring after June 30, 2025.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Current status: Signed into law.
Procedural history
15 actions- Mar 19, 2025Filed with Secretary Of State 03/14
- Mar 18, 2025HouseEnrolledSigned by Governor 03/14
- Mar 13, 2025HouseEnrolledSent to Governor
- Mar 13, 2025HouseSigned by Speaker
- Mar 12, 2025SenateSigned by President
- Mar 10, 2025HouseReturned to House
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- Mar 7, 2025SenateFloorSecond reading, passed, yeas 47 nays 0
- Mar 7, 2025SenateCommitteeReported back, do pass, place on calendar 6 0 0
- Feb 21, 2025SenateCommitteeCommittee Hearing 10:30
- Feb 13, 2025SenateIntroducedIntroduced, first reading, referred Agriculture and Veterans Affairs Committee
- Jan 20, 2025SenateReceived from House
- Jan 17, 2025HouseFloorSecond reading, passed, yeas 90 nays 0
- Jan 16, 2025HouseCommitteeReported back, do pass, place on calendar 13 0 1
- Jan 16, 2025HouseCommitteeCommittee Hearing 02:49
- Jan 7, 2025HouseIntroducedIntroduced, first reading, referred Government and Veterans Affairs Committee
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- Controversy10Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
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