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Yes: 277 • No: 1
North DakotaHB 13082025 Regular SessionHouse
AN ACT to amend and reenact sections 54-12-33 and 54-12-33.1 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to duties of the human trafficking commission and immunity for reporting human trafficking; to provide a continuing appropriation; and to provide a contingent effective date.
Sponsored By: Bernie Satrom (Republican)
Signed by Governor
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
Legal Protection for Professionals Reporting Trafficking
People in regulated occupations or professions gain protection from civil liability when they report suspected trafficking in good faith. This protection does not excuse violations of professional ethics rules; regulators can still impose discipline. Lodging owners and employees keep their existing civil immunity.
Broader State Team Addresses Human Trafficking
North Dakota’s attorney general must establish and lead a human trafficking commission, personally or through a designee. It includes agency, tribal, and victim-service groups, plus eight required members. Those seats represent majority- and minority-party lawmakers, child and family services, rural schools, a top-ten-size school district, tribal nations, state’s attorneys, and the governor. The commission must collect and review trafficking data and report yearly to the attorney general, governor, and legislature. It must promote public awareness, prevention, and information about victim services and remedies. It also promotes investigation and prosecution training, including training on missing and murdered Indigenous people, with prosecutors, police training officials, and law enforcement.
Yearly Trafficking Prevention Education for Students
The commission must help provide yearly student education about human trafficking, exploitation, and prevention. Student lessons must follow the school requirements created by Senate Bill 2330. The commission must also present yearly on trafficking awareness and prevention at professional development conferences for teachers, administrators, and support staff.
Worker Trafficking Training Expands Without Deadline
The commission must promote trafficking prevention and victim-service training for state and local workers and regulated professionals with recurring trafficking contact. It must create training on identifying, reporting, or responding to suspected trafficking, but the law removes the 90-day deadline without replacement. Job regulators may count this program toward continuing education, but credit is not guaranteed. The commission may seek and accept public or private donations, gifts, grants, and bequests for prevention training and participation incentives for regulated professionals and lodging proprietors. This money is continuously available for those purposes; the law sets no total amount.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Bernie Satrom
Republican • House
Cosponsors
Mike Brandenburg
Republican • House
Mitch Ostlie
Republican • House
Mary Schneider
Democratic • House
David A. Clemens
Republican • Senate
Cole Conley
Republican • Senate
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 4/23/2025
Second reading, passed as amended, yeas 46 nays 1
Yes: 46 • No: 1
House vote • 4/22/2025
Second reading, passed, yeas 94 nays 0
Yes: 94 • No: 0
Senate vote • 4/4/2025
Second reading, passed as amended, yeas 45 nays 0
Yes: 45 • No: 0
House vote • 2/4/2025
Second reading, passed, yeas 92 nays 0
Yes: 92 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Filed with Secretary Of State 04/28
4/30/2025HouseSigned by Governor 04/28
4/29/2025HouseSent to Governor
4/25/2025HouseSigned by Speaker
4/25/2025HouseSigned by President
4/24/2025SenateSecond reading, passed as amended, yeas 46 nays 1
4/23/2025SenateConference committee report adopted
4/23/2025SenateReported back from conference committee, in place of, placed on calendar
4/23/2025SenateSecond reading, passed, yeas 94 nays 0
4/22/2025HouseConference committee report adopted
4/22/2025HouseReported back from conference committee, in place of, placed on calendar
4/17/2025HouseConference committee appointed Powers Wobbema Boschee
4/15/2025SenateConference committee appointed Beltz Davis Holle
4/10/2025HouseRefused to concur
4/10/2025HouseReturned to House (12)
4/7/2025HouseSecond reading, passed as amended, yeas 45 nays 0
4/4/2025SenateAmendment adopted, placed on calendar
4/4/2025SenateReported back amended, do pass, amendment placed on calendar 5 0 0
4/3/2025SenateCommittee Hearing 09:00
3/14/2025SenateIntroduced, first reading, referred Workforce Development Committee
2/13/2025SenateReceived from House
2/5/2025SenateSecond reading, passed, yeas 92 nays 0
2/4/2025HouseLaid over one legislative day
1/31/2025HouseReported back, do pass, place on calendar 13 0 0
1/30/2025HouseCommittee Hearing 09:20
1/22/2025House
Bill Text
Enrollment
HOUSE BILL NO. 1308 with Conference Committee Amendments
HOUSE BILL NO. 1308 with Senate Amendments
INTRODUCED
Prepared by the Legislative Council staff for Representative Boschee
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