l9n/ North Dakota

2025 Regular Session, 2025–2026

Senate Bill 2014

Relating to a rail revolving loan fund and uses of the abandoned oil and gas well plugging and site reclamation fund; to amend and reenact subsection 7 of section 6‑08.1‑02 and sections 6‑09‑35, 6‑09‑46.2, 6‑09.7‑05, 6‑09.14‑04, and 49‑17.1‑02.1, subsection 1 of section 54‑17‑40, and subdivision a of subsection 4 of section 54‑17.7‑04 of the North Dakota Century Code, and section 15 of chapter 14 of the 2023 Session Laws, relating to confidential and exempt records of the Bank of North Dakota, the rebuilders loan program, loan guarantees through the strategic investment and improvements fund, interest rate buydown limits for the partnership in assisting community expansion fund, department of transportation review and approval of rail projects, uses of the housing incentive fund, North Dakota pipeline borrowing authority, and a salt cavern underground energy storage research project; to repeal section 3 of Senate Bill No. 2188, as approved by the sixty-ninth legislative assembly, relating to a transfer from the strategic investment and improvements fund to the clean sustainable energy fund; to provide a deficiency appropriation; to provide for a transfer; to provide an exemption; to provide for a legislative management study; to provide for a legislative management report; to provide for a report; to provide an effective date; and to declare an emergency.

Became law, signed May 17, 2025, 130 days after it was filed.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.

AN ACT to provide an appropriation for defraying the expenses of the industrial commission and the agencies under its control; to create and enact a new section to chapter 6-09 and a new subdivision to subsection 2 of section 38-08-04.5 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to a rail revolving loan fund and uses of the abandoned oil and gas well plugging and site reclamation fund; to amend and reenact subsection 7 of section 6-08.1-02 and sections 6-09-35, 6-09-46.2, 6-09.7-05, 6-09.14-04, and 49-17.1-02.1, subsection 1 of section 54-17-40, and subdivision a of subsection 4 of section 54-17.7-04 of the North Dakota Century Code, and section 15 of chapter 14 of the 2023 Session Laws, relating to confidential and exempt records of the Bank of North Dakota, the rebuilders loan program, loan guarantees through the strategic investment and improvements fund, interest rate buydown limits for the partnership in assisting community expansion fund, department of transportation review and approval of rail projects, uses of the housing incentive fund, North Dakota pipeline borrowing authority, and a salt cavern underground energy storage research project; to repeal section 3 of Senate Bill No. 2188, as approved by the sixty-ninth legislative assembly, relating to a transfer from the strategic investment and improvements fund to the clean sustainable energy fund; to provide a deficiency appropriation; to provide for a transfer; to provide an exemption; to provide for a legislative management study; to provide for a legislative management report; to provide for a report; to provide an effective date; and to declare an emergency.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the Senate

Its course

January 7 to June 11, 2025, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action40 actions on 18 days

In the SenateJan 7 to Feb 2448 days

AppropriationsJan 7 to Feb 2145 days

In the House of RepresentativesFeb 24 to Apr 2459 days

AppropriationsMar 7 to Apr 2347 days

Back in the SenateApr 24 to May 28 days

Waiting to be sentMay 2 to May 20 days

With the GovernorMay 2 to May 1715 days

Votes

Yeas to nays, as the Legislative Assembly recorded them. Committee votes are set in.

Amendments

Each amendment offered, and what became of it.

  • Senate committee amendmentAdopted

    Adopted Feb 24

  • House of Representatives committee amendmentAdopted

    Adopted Apr 24

Text

Each version as the Legislative Assembly printed it.

l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislative Assembly published it is below.

In the Senate Jan 7 – Feb 24

  1. Introduced and sent to Appropriations
  2. Heard in Appropriations
  3. Heard in Appropriations
  4. Heard in Appropriations
  5. Heard in Appropriations
  6. Heard in Appropriations
  7. Heard in Appropriations
  8. Heard in Appropriations
  9. Heard in Appropriations
  10. Appropriations recommended it as amended, 15 to 0
  11. Amended as the committee recommended
  12. Passed the Senate, 46 to 0

In the House of Representatives Feb 25 – Apr 24

  1. Arrived in the House of Representatives
  2. Read a first time and sent to Appropriations
  3. Heard in Appropriations
  4. Heard in Appropriations
  5. Heard in Appropriations
  6. Heard in Appropriations
  7. Heard in Appropriations
  8. Appropriations recommended it as amended, 21 to 1
  9. Amended as the committee recommended
  10. Passed the House of Representatives, 71 to 19

Back in the Senate Apr 25 – May 2

  1. Returned to the Senate
  2. The Senate refused the other chamber's changes
  3. Sent to a conference committee
  4. Sent to a conference committee
  5. The conference committee reported
  6. The Senate rejected the conference committee's report
  7. The conference committee reported
  8. The Senate adopted the conference committee's report
  9. Passed the Senate, 42 to 3
  10. The conference committee reported
  11. The House of Representatives adopted the conference committee's report
  12. Passed the House of Representatives, 74 to 15
  13. Signed in the House of Representatives

To the Governor May 2 – Jun 11

  1. Signed in the Senate
  2. Sent to the Governor
  3. Signed by the Governor, with items vetoed
  4. Filed with the Secretary of State
All 40 actions, as published