HB 1402 Summary

• Requires petition signers to legibly print their name, complete residential address (or rural route/general delivery address), and date of signing on initiative, referendum, and recall petitions.

• Mandates that every qualified elector must sign petitions in the presence of the individual circulating the petition.

• Changes sponsoring committee chair title from "Chairman" to "Chairperson" on petition forms for inclusive language.

• Specifies that petition signers must be qualified electors (eighteen years old, lived in North Dakota thirty days, and United States citizens).

• Passed the House with 93 yeas and 1 absent; passed the Senate with 46 yeas and 1 nay.