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ND HB1474

Bill

Official Source

Status

Introduced

1/18/2021

Primary Sponsor

Joshua Boschee

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Origin

House of Representatives

67th Legislative Assembly

AI Summary

  • Creates a new section in chapter 54-03 of the North Dakota Century Code to define the term "lives" for legislative residency requirements
  • Defines "lives" as occupying continuously a home or dwelling to which the individual returns when not temporarily located elsewhere for labor or other special purposes
  • Applies the definition to Section 5 of Article IV of the North Dakota Constitution, which requires legislators to live in their districts
  • Introduced by Representative Boschee in the Sixty-seventh Legislative Assembly

Legislative Description

Requiring members of the legislative assembly to live in the district from which selected.

Last Action

Second reading, failed to pass, yeas 17 nays 76

2/23/2021

Committee Referrals

Government and Veterans Affairs1/18/2021

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