North Dakota HCR 3044: A concurrent resolution directing the Legislative Management to consider studying the impact of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic, including an analysis of whether certain populations are more susceptible to contracting COVID-19 and an analysis of the state residents who have been hospitalized or died from COVID-19, including whether the individuals had a pre-existing health condition, a disability, access to health care, health insurance, and whether the individual belonged to a population susceptible to serious illness from COVID-19.

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21.3109.01000
Sixty-seventh
Legislative Assembly
of North Dakota
Introduced by
Representatives Buffalo, Klemin, Rohr
A concurrent resolution directing the Legislative Management to consider studying the impact of
the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic, including an analysis of whether certain populations
are more susceptible to contracting COVID-19 and an analysis of the state residents who have
been hospitalized or died from COVID-19, including whether the individuals had a pre-existing
health condition, a disability, access to health care, health insurance, and whether the individual
belonged to a population susceptible to serious illness from COVID-19.
WHEREAS, COVID-19 is a severe respiratory illness, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus;
and
WHEREAS, the United States Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex
Azar II declared a national public health emergency for COVID-19 on January 31, 2020; and
WHEREAS, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic in March
2020; and
WHEREAS, President Donald Trump declared the growing COVID-19 crisis in the United
States a national emergency on March 13, 2020; and
WHEREAS, Governor Doug Burgum declared a state of emergency in North Dakota in
response to the public health crisis resulting from COVID-19 on March 13, 2020; and
WHEREAS, there have been over 99,000 confirmed cases, over 3,800 hospitalizations, and
over 1,400 deaths due to COVID-19 in North Dakota since the onset of the pandemic in North
Dakota in March 2020;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF
NORTH DAKOTA, THE SENATE CONCURRING THEREIN:
That the Legislative Assembly consider studying the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic,
including an analysis of whether certain populations are more susceptible to contracting
COVID-19 and an analysis of the state residents who have been hospitalized or died from
COVID-19, including whether the individuals had a pre-existing health condition, a disability,
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access to health care, health insurance, and whether the individual belonged to a population
susceptible to serious illness from COVID-19; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Legislative Management report its findings and
recommendations, together with any legislation required to implement the recommendations, to
the Sixty-eighth Legislative Assembly.
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