BILL TRACKING

Bill No.	NDSBA Position	Description
HB 1013	Monitor	FILED--Impact grants advisory committee
HB 1019	Monitor	Career and Tech Budget
HB 1020	Support	Extension budget containing Gear Up for Kindergarten
HB 1021	Support	ITD budget
HB 1029	Monitor	School Approval and payment reductions for unapproved schools
HB 1030	Support	FILED--Gubernatorial weather-related waivers of required make-up days
HB 1036	Monitor	FILED--Interim study on rates, causes, and solutions to number of students taking developmental courses in college
HB 1047	Monitor	FILED--Mill levy reduction grants
HB 1049	Monitor	FILED--Interim study of Indian education
HB 1066	Support	FILED--Threshold and criteria for school construction projects
HB 1067	Support	Approval threshold for school construction projects (Withdrawn)
HB 1068	Support	Increases project cost requiring DPI approval (Withdrawn)
HB 1069	Support	Changes principal amount and indebtedness to reflect loan amount on projects (Withdrawn)
HB 1070	Failed	Makes districts eligible to receive oil impact grants and forbids use of those revenue amounts in computation of imputed taxable valuation
HB 1073	Monitor	FILED--Requires parental consent to access public benefits or insurance for medical expenses to determine medically related disability
HB 1074	Monitor	FILED--District reimbursement for boarding care
HB 1086	Monitor	Reporting of a student's use of alcohol or drugs
HB 1106	Failed	Eligibility for ND scholarships
HB 1134	Monitor	FILED--TFFR bill--support if benefit changes remain in and contributions don't increase more than the 2 and 2
HB 1143	Failed	Requires one unit of World History for graduation. No funding, no additional time, and reduces elective options
HB 1147	Failed	Requires districts to have an anti-bullying policy
HB 1154	Monitor	FILED--Scholarship eligibility for students attending nonpublic school in bordering state if custodial parents reside in ND
HB 1189	Failed	Reduces corporate income tax
HB 1194	Monitor	FILED--Truth in property taxation
HB 1198	Failed	Oil/gas revenues on Berthold Reservation
HB 1202	Failed	Healthy schools grant to an REA
HB 1211	Oppose	FILED--Loosens remainder of home school regulations
HB 1214	Support	FILED--Requires agencies to provide certain information for longitudinal data system
HB 1215	Monitor	FILED--Requires districts to have a lockdown plan and conduct drills. Bill is very prescriptive at this point.
HB 1223	Support	FILED--Property tax exemption for political subdivisions leasing from other political subdivisions
HB 1228	Failed	PERS defined contribution plan
HB 1229	Monitor	Mandates abstinence curriculum
HB 1247	Failed	Reduces corporate and individual income taxes
HB 1248	Monitor	Interstate compact for education of military children
HB 1250	Failed	Requires schools to have bullying policy and holds districts harmless for liability in relation to the policy
HB 1258	Failed	TFFR defined contribution plan
HB 1270	Monitor	FILED--Reorganizes ESPB
HB 1272	Failed	Limits property tax increases to 3%
HB 1273	Support	FILED--Time for kindergarten readiness and formative assessments
HB 1276	Failed	Unemployment insurance
HB 1283	Failed	Canvassing of absentee ballots
HB 1289	Monitor	Reduces state income tax
HB 1292	Failed	Designates polling places
HB 1293	Failed	Limits property tax increases
HB 1295	Failed	Limits building authority agreements and payments
HB 1300	Failed	Candidate statement of interest forms
HB 1303	Failed	Extraction tax on gas production
HB 1326	Monitor	FILED--Maintenance of insurance for district property
HB 1336	Failed	Repeals commission on intergovernmental relations
HB 1342	Failed	Allows for referral of school district budgets
HB 1398	Failed	Limits TFFR benefits for administrators
HB 1412	Failed	Requires offering of personal finance courses in specific grades
HB 1425	Support	FILED--Exempts portable classrooms from some building codes
HB 1426	Monitor	FILED--OMB will set rates for meal reimbursement for travel
HB 1428	Monitor	FILED--Requires reduction in foundation aid for district indebtedness that can't be paid
HB 1432	Failed	Unemployment insurance
HB 1436	Monitor	FILED--Eligibility for kindergarten enrollment
HB 1438	Monitor	FILED--Possession of secured firearms
HB 1443	Monitor	$50 million from state general fund to TFFR in 2012 and $200 million total over four biennia (Withdrawn)
HB 1447	Monitor	Election procedures
HB 1448	Failed	Recovery audits
HB 1449	Failed	Requires districts to submit budget information to state director of budget
HB 1451	Monitor	Permanent oil trust fund transfers
HB 1457	Failed	Provides $1 million to county health to provide nursing services to schools
HB 1465	Monitor	FILED--AG's bullying bill
SB 2013	Support	DPI budget
SB 2026	Monitor	FILED--Bidding threshold
SB 2027	Monitor	FILED--Material specs in bids
SB 2033	Failed	Energy impact grants
SB 2047	Monitor	Allocations of oil and gas revenues by State Treasurer
SB 2048	Monitor	FILED--Exclusion of renaissance property from tax increment districts
SB 2049	Monitor	FILED--Exclusion of certain subsidized rental property from charitable exemptions
SB 2050	Monitor	FILED--Joint review board approval for Tax Increment Finance projects
SB 2051	Failed	Amends harassment definition by broadening protected classes
SB 2052	Failed	Amends criminal mischief law and hate crimes
SB 2058	Failed	Legislative intent to fund ND scholarships with interest income from foundation aid stabilization fund
SB 2065	Monitor	FILED--Meal allowance claims
SB 2108	Monitor	FILED--PERS
SB 2129	Monitor	Holds political subs harmless for effects of allocations because of Legacy Fund creation
SB 2130	Failed	Appropriation for a DPI Director of Indian Education
SB 2150	Support	Commission on Education Improvement bill
SB 2167	Failed	Comprehensive bullying bill
SB 2178	Failed	Reduces state income tax
SB 2179	Support	FILED--Increases per diem for members on fact finding commission
SB 2198	Monitor	FILED--New construction of publicly owned property must use interoperable HVAC systems
SB 2211	Monitor	FILED--Relating to exemptions to veterans' preference and public employees
SB 2226	Monitor	FILED--Truancy reporting bill
SB 2245	Monitor	FILED--Unemployment insurance
SB 2254	Monitor	FILED--Comprehensive election administration bill
SB 2256	Monitor	FILED--Election observers
SB 2278	Oppose	FILED--Requires schools automatically send higher ed institutions lists of students' names, addresses, and phone numbers
SB 2279	Monitor	FILED--Veterans' preference in employment
SB 2281	Monitor	FILED--Concussions
SB 2296	Failed	Public buildings energy usage database
SB 2311	Support	Teacher of the year annoucement
SB 2314	Failed	Drug-free schools grants
SB 2316	Failed	Includes grades 6-12 for alternative school education funding
SB 2327	Oppose	FILED--Restricts school boards use of resources and property to support or oppose initiated referral measures
SB 2338	Failed	Early childhood education grants
SB 2344	Failed	Changes makeup of state investment board
SB 2349	Failed	Elections--verification of eligibility of voters
SB 2353	Failed	State and political subs must have system for consultation and coordination with tribal governments
SB 2359	Failed	Elections--location of polling place when using mail-in balloting
HCR 3004	Failed	Study of Indian education issues
HCR 3018	Failed	Limits growth of foundation aid stablization fund
HCR 3046	Failed	Combines pre-K through higher education under one director and one board
SCR 4004	Failed	Constitutional amendment to use interest from foundation aid stabilization fund for scholarships
SCR 4017	Support	FILED--Study on releasing juvenile records to school officials