Earlier this month, I picked up on a House amendment to Senator Oley Larsen’s (R – District 3) Senate Bill 2139 and expressed my concern that the amendment may well sink Senator Larsen’s bill. The original intent of SB 2139 [read more…]
When Senator Oley Larsen (R – District 3) originally sponsored Senate Bill 2139, it was an extremely simple bill… allow those who are caught carrying a concealed weapon without their permit to produce it within ten days of the violation. [read more…]
Despite a strong floor debate by Senators Jordan Kannianen and Oley Larsen, which resulted in the overwhelming passage of House Bill 1428, a source at the State Capitol tells me that Governor Doug Burgum is considering vetoing the bill. In [read more…]
There’s moments in politics that are memorable. And last Friday, the debate on House Bill 1428 in the Senate was something I will not soon forget. HB 1428 came out of the Senate Education Committee and to the floor with [read more…]
In what is sure to be an ongoing issue of controversy, the House Human Services Committee has set their hearing for Senate Bill 2344 on Tuesday, March 21st. As you’re probably aware, this bill seeks to extensively amend the initiated [read more…]
Last year, as we headed into the North Dakota Republican Convention and the primary season, North Dakota’s budget was a hot topic. Chief among the discussion was the problematic spending increases of the legislature and whether the 2017 legislative session [read more…]
By a vote of 27-17, the North Dakota Senate recently passed SB 2327. If passed in both chambers and signed into law, it would create a new government agency called the "Department of Environmental Quality". This new government agency would [read more…]
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