2025 Bill Tracker
Join us in defending democracy and protecting voting rights in the 2025 ND Legislative Session. Below are the bills we're tracking. Read a summary of each and track along with us, so you can take action.
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Voting Rights
Electoral College—SCR 4013: A resolution to denounce the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact & support the Electoral College. A key issue for LWV is abolishing the Electoral College and replacing it with a direct election system. Read more
Status: Senate committee hearing on February 21 at 9am. Submit testimony
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Constitutional Amendments #2—SCR 4007: This measure would create a single subject rule for constitutional amendments (both initiated and referred). The Secretary of State would have the authority to decide if one was single subject or not.
Status: Senate hearing closed.
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DC Statehood—SCR 4009: A resolution urging Congress to support admitting Washington, D.C. into the Union as a state of the United States . Learn more: Watch a short video or Read this explainer
Status: Received a 4-1 Do Not Pass from the Senate committee.
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​ Student Voters—HB 1178: A bill to require school districts to allow student voters to leave campus to vote in elections. Read our testimony.
Status: Passed the House. Headed over to the Senate.
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Constitutional Amendments #1—HCR 3003: This measure would increase the threshold for approving a constitutional amendment from a simple majority to 60% making it harder for voters to pass a constitutional ballot measure. Read our testimony
Status: Passed the House. Headed over to the Senate.​​​​​​​​​​
​Elections
​ Voting Methods #1—HB 1297 : A bill to ban approval voting and ranked choice voting in North Dakota. Currently, the City of Fargo uses approval voting for city elections.
Status: Passed the House. Headed to the Senate. Get your testimony ready!
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​ Voting Methods #2—HB 1307 : A bill that would require local ordinances not to conflict with state law. and they amended (changed) it to only include election law. This would ban Fargo's use of approval voting in their city elections.
Status: House committee hearing closed.​​
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​ Ballot Design—HB 1099 : A bill to add the presidential candidates' first names to the ballot. Currently, only the last names are required on the ballot, which confused some voters in the November 2024 election.
Status: Passed the House. Headed over to the Senate.​​​​​​​
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Party Primaries —HB 1424: A bill that would allow political party endorsed candidates only to be listed on the primary ballot for that party. Currently, candidates in partisan races also have the option to gather signatures to get on the primary ballot, but the bill would remove this option.
Status: House committee hearing closed.
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Candidates on Primary Ballot —HB 1446: A bill to change how statewide candidates make it onto the state primary ballot. Candidates would no longer be able to get their name on the primary ballot through the state party convention endorsement process.
Status: House committee hearing closed.
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​ Post-Election Audit—SB 2175 : A bill to require every county to do a post-election audit of the ballots from one polling location in the county.
Status: Senate committee hearing closed.
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​ Voter Info —SB 2230: A bill to require the Secretary of State to create and distribute educational materials on constitutional amendments to voters before each election.
Status: Senate committee hearing closed.
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​ Endorsing Party Candidates —SB 2252 : A bill to change how candidates are endorsed for the primary. It could be either at party conventions or through primaries, not both.
Status: Senate committee hearing closed.
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​ Recall Elections —SB 2269 : A bill to increase the number of signatures on petitions for recall of a city official from 25% to 35% of voters in the last election for that office.
Status: Senate committee hearing closed.
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​ PSC Elections —SCR 4015: A bill to increase the number of public service commissioners and have them elected by district instead of statewide.
Status: Senate committee hearing closed.
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​ Local Bond Elections —SCR 4022: A bill to allow people to vote in local bond elections if they own property in the local district even if they don't live at that residence.
Status: Senate committee hearing on February 20 at 10am. Submit testimony​​
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Legislative Districts—SB 2338: A bill to move the boundary lines for the House sub-districts in District 9 that were created by legislators in 2021 to give fair representation to the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and Spirit Lake Nation who live in District 9.
Status: Senate committee hearing closed.
​Transparency & Ethics
Open Records—HB 1110: A bill to limit access to records and meetings related to the Public Service Commission's investigative and surveillance activities.
Status: Passed the House. Headed over to the Senate.
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Artificial Intelligence—HB 1167: A bill to require political ads containing AI-generated content to have a disclaimer.
Status: House committee hearing closed.
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Ethics Commission—HB 1360: A bill to update the Ethics Commission complaint process. Changes recommended by the Ethics Commission.
Status: House committee hearing closed.
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Political Ads—HB 1204: A bill to expand current law against publishing false information in political ads to include social media.
Status: Passed the House. Headed to the Senate.
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Conflicts of Interest—HB 1505: A bill to require legislators follow the legislative rules around conflicts of interest. If the Ethics Commission investigates an alleged conflicts of interest violation, they would have to disclose the records of the investigation when they are finished investigating.
Status: House committee hearing closed.
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Lobbying Clarification—SB 2052: A bill to clarify that elected public officials, not appointed officials, are prohibited from acting as lobbyists. Wording to align with our state Constitution.
Status: Passed the House. Headed over to the Senate.
​Campaign Finance
Statement of Interests—HB 1469: A bill to require elected officials to file an annual statement of interests. The statement serves to disclose the elected official's financial relationships. Currently, the form is only filed when they are running for office.
Status: Committee gave it a Do Pass as amended. Headed to the House floor for a vote.
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Raffles—HB 1276: A bill to prohibit campaign committees, state political parties, and legislative district committees from using a raffle to raise money for a political purpose.
Status: House committee hearing closed.​​​​​
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Campaign Finance + Political Ads—HB 1583: A bill to address topics like dark money, corporations disclosing campaign contribution expenditures, and civil damages for candidates targeted with misleading or deceptive political ads.
Status: House committee hearing closed.
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Reporting—SB 2156: A bill to change the campaign finance reporting requirements for candidates, such as increasing the late fee charged to candidates who submit theirs late.
Status: Passed the Senate. Headed to the House.
​Failed or Withdrawn
Lobbyist Gifts—HB 1304: A bill to provide an exception to the prohibition against gifts for legislator attendance at an out-of-state educational event. Withdrawn.​
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​ Voter Info —HB 1616: A bill to require voter information in our state's voter file be made available to anyone located within or outside the state. Failed in the House.
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​ Primary Election Ballots—SB 2178 : A bill that would have impacted our state primaries and voter privacy. Failed in the Senate. Read our testimony
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Dark Money—HB 1286: A bill to require the candidates report the ultimate and true source of their campaign contributions. Failed in the House.
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​ Voter Registration—HB 1287 : A bill to implement voter registration in ND. Failed in the House.
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​ Hand Count Ballots —HB 1587 : A bill to require a hand count of all ballots before the canvassing board meets to certify the election. Failed in the House.
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Political Funds—HB 1141: A bill that wouldn't allow public funds to be given to an organization that endorsed a candidate or ballot measure in the last 10 years. Failed in the House.
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