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ND HB1391
Bill
Status
2/25/2025
Primary Sponsor
Karen Rohr
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AI Summary
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Adds "health status" as a new protected class under North Dakota's antidiscrimination laws, defined as an individual's medical records or preferences relating to the right to refuse medical procedures, treatments, injections, devices, vaccines, or prophylactics
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Prohibits discrimination based on health status in employment, public accommodations, public services, labor union membership, and credit transactions
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Requires employers to make reasonable accommodations for employees based on their health status, similar to existing requirements for disability, pregnancy, and religion
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Creates an exception allowing licensed health care facilities to ask employees to voluntarily disclose health status information to determine whether reasonable accommodation measures are needed to protect against communicable diseases
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Permits health care facilities to treat employees who decline to provide health status information as being "at risk" for communicable diseases when determining accommodation measures
Legislative Description
Creating a new status related to human rights and antidiscrimination policies; and to provide an appropriation.
Last Action
Second reading, failed to pass, yeas 17 nays 29
3/28/2025