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ND SB2323

Bill

Status

Passed

5/17/2025

Primary Sponsor

Brad Bekkedahl

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Origin

Senate

69th Legislative Assembly

AI Summary

  • Creates a new hub city debt relief funding pool providing $10.5 million per fiscal year to help Williston (70.13%), Dickinson (19.94%), and Minot (9.93%) repay debt incurred between July 1, 2012, and December 31, 2025, related to oil and gas development impacts

  • Increases the abandoned oil and gas well plugging and site reclamation fund cap from $50 million to $100 million through June 30, 2027, then returns to $50 million

  • Modifies state general fund deposits from oil and gas taxes by increasing the first allocation from $230 million to $250 million and the second from $230 million to $250 million per biennium, while reducing the strategic investment and improvements fund allocation from $400 million to $360 million

  • Temporarily reduces the North Dakota outdoor heritage fund annual cap from $20 million to $7.5 million for fiscal years 2025-2027

  • Directs up to $17.5 million in oil and gas tax revenues to the oil and gas research fund for the period August 1, 2025, through July 31, 2027

Legislative Description

Oil and gas gross production tax allocations and the state share of oil and gas tax allocations; to provide for a legislative management report; to provide an exemption; and to provide an effective date.

Last Action

Filed with Secretary Of State 05/19

6/11/2025

Committee Referrals

Appropriations4/11/2025
Finance and Taxation3/7/2025
Appropriations1/29/2025
Finance and Taxation1/20/2025

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