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ND SB2106

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/7/2025

Primary Sponsor

Todd Beard

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Origin

Senate

69th Legislative Assembly

AI Summary

  • Prohibits all weather modification activities in North Dakota, making it a class B misdemeanor to perform or contract for weather modification operations

  • Defines weather modification broadly to include cloud seeding, hail suppression, precipitation modification (rain, snow, hail, mist, fog), and alteration of clouds, temperature, wind direction, and velocity

  • Repeals Chapter 61-04.1 (the existing weather modification regulatory framework) and Section 37-17.1-15 of the North Dakota Century Code

  • Removes weather modification from the list of state water development project priorities eligible for state water commission funding

  • Eliminates township authority to spend funds on weather modification activities and removes water resource board authority to conduct weather modification operations

Legislative Description

Weather modification; and to provide a penalty.

Last Action

Second reading, failed to pass, yeas 18 nays 29

2/7/2025

Committee Referrals

Energy and Natural Resources1/7/2025

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