North Dakota HB 1311: A BILL for an Act to create and enact a new section to chapter 54-03 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to house standing committee chairmen; to amend and reenact subsection 2 of section 54-35-01 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to representation on legislative management; to provide an effective date; and to declare an emergency.

Bill Text

23.0559.01000
Sixty-eighth
Legislative Assembly
of North Dakota
Introduced by
Representatives Steiner, K. Anderson, Meier, Novak, S. Olson, VanWinkle
A BILL for an Act to create and enact a new section to chapter 54-03 of the North Dakota
Century Code, relating to house standing committee chairmen; to amend and reenact
subsection 2 of section 54-35-01 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to representation
on legislative management; to provide an effective date; and to declare an emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA:
SECTION 1. A new section to chapter 54-03 of the North Dakota Century Code is created
and enacted as follows:
House committee chairmen.
1. The majority leader shall appoint two female members from the majority party as
chairmen of standing committees.
2. To be appointed, the female members must have seniority as evidenced by the
member's previous voting history or through support of the platform of the majority
party. If the majority party's platform includes support for the right to life of unborn
babies, the member must support the right to life of unborn babies.
SECTION 2. AMENDMENT. Subsection 2 of section 54-35-01 of the North Dakota Century
Code is amended and reenacted as follows:
2. In the house of representatives the majority leader shall appoint to the legislative
management members elected by the political party with the largest number of
members in the house and the minority leader of the house shall appoint to the
legislative management members elected by the political party with the next largest
number of members in the house. The majority and minority leaders of the house of
representatives shall make the appointments so as to give the two political parties
having the most members in the house the same total proportionate representation on
the legislative management as prevails in the house. In allocating the membership on
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the legislative management to each political party, the total number of members in the
house of representatives must be divided by six; the resulting quotient must then be
divided into the number of members of each of the two political parties of the house;
the resulting quotient for each party of the house, rounded to the nearest whole
number, is the number of members of that political party in the house to be on the
legislative management. Notwithstanding this allocation, the minority political party in
the house of representatives must be represented by at least two members on the
legislative management and the majority party must be represented by at least two
female members on the legislative management, to be appointed by the female
members of the majority party.
SECTION 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. Section 1 of this Act is effective January 1, 2025.
SECTION 4. EMERGENCY. Section 2 of this Act is declared to be an emergency measure.
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