Senator Brad Bekkedahl’s (R – District 1) attempt to make North Dakota a primary enforcer of its seat belt law has been thwarted. Yesterday, the House narrowly defeated Senate Bill 2121 on a 45 – 49 vote. Oddly enough, there [read more…]
Here we go again. Supporters of the nanny state are taking another shot at changing North Dakota’s seat belt law from secondary enforcement to primary enforcement. The North Dakota Senate will debate and vote on Senate Bill 2121 today. In [read more…]
When Governor Doug Burgum rolled out his traffic safety initiative known as “Vision Zero” in January of 2018, we published an article in which I suggested that the goal of the initiative was “illogical”. In case you’re unfamiliar with them, [read more…]
The North Dakota House considered Senate Bill 2060 this afternoon, which would change North Dakota’s seat belt law for adults from secondary enforcement to primary enforcement. This means that law enforcement would be able to pull you over if they [read more…]
UPDATE: For some reason, the House adjourned early today. Because of this, they didn’t vote on SB 2060. This will give you another day to contact your legislators. Last Friday we reported that the House Transportation Committee had given Senate [read more…]
Back in December, we published and article explaining that five Republicans had joined a lone Democrat — Senator Erin Oban (District 35) — in sponsoring a bill that would make North Dakota’s seat belt laws for adults even more stringent. Senate [read more…]
Last Monday, we published an article explaining how four Republicans had sponsored legislation that sought to ban minors from riding in the beds of pickup trucks. It was Senate Bill 2129. At the time of writing that article, the bill [read more…]
Yesterday, we published an article explaining that though Senate Bill 2060 had been defeated the day before, it was likely to be reconsidered. This bill proposes making North Dakota’s seat belt law a primary offense. The possibility of reconsideration was [read more…]
About a month ago, we reported that a lone Democratic State Senator — Erin Oban (District 35) — had joined five Republicans on a bill proposing to move North Dakota’s seat belt law from secondary enforcement to primary. This means [read more…]
Just less than two weeks ago, we broke the news that Democratic State Senator Erin Oban joined five Republicans in proposing changes to make North Dakota’s seat belt law more restrictive. Senate Bill 2060 proposes changing the state’s current law — [read more…]
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