# North Dakota SCR 4005: A concurrent resolution designating House and Senate employment positions and fixing compensation.

North Dakota SCR 4005, A concurrent resolution designating House and Senate employment positions and fixing compensation., is a 2025 Regular Session Senate bill sponsored by Dick Dever (Republican); status adopted, last action 2025-01-21 (Filed with Secretary Of State 01/21); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-18).

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## Facts
- Bill: North Dakota SCR 4005
- State: North Dakota
- Session: 2025 Regular Session
- Title: A concurrent resolution designating House and Senate employment positions and fixing compensation.
- Status: adopted
- Chamber: Senate
- Introduced: 2025-01-16
- Last action: 2025-01-21, Filed with Secretary Of State 01/21
- Sponsor: Dick Dever (Republican)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Touches household money: yes
- Roll calls: 2 (135 yes, 0 no in all)
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 4

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read

- Fixed daily pay for legislative staff: benefit, high. The law sets daily wages for named House and Senate jobs in the Sixty-ninth Legislative Assembly. Examples include $239 per day for the House Chief Clerk or the Secretary of the Senate, $213 per day for assistant clerks and calendar clerks, $228 per day for journal reporters, $190 per day for serge…
- Extra daily pay for experience: benefit, low. Each employee earns $1 more per day for every prior regular session worked at least 45 paid days, up to $10 extra per day. To receive it, you must certify to the Legislative Council the year of each qualifying session. The extra amount is added to your daily rate.
- Flexible staffing for caucus leaders: benefit, low. Each majority and minority leader is entitled to one administrative assistant and two staff assistants. A leader may hire fewer or more assistants as long as the total daily pay does not exceed the amount authorized for those positions.
- Part-time and recess pay rules: mixed, low. With Employment Committee approval, a job may be converted to part-time, and the daily rate becomes an hourly rate. You may hold more than one part-time job if, together, they do not exceed a full-time equivalent. You get paid on recess days when you are required to attend hearings or other legisla…

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: Dick Dever (Republican), Senate
- Cosponsor: Anna S. Novak (Republican), House

## Roll call votes

| Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2025-01-20 | House | Second reading, adopted yeas 88 nays 0 | pass | 88 | 0 |   |
| 2025-01-16 | Senate | Second reading, adopted yeas 47 nays 0 | pass | 47 | 0 |   |

## Actions (9)

- 2025-01-21: Filed with Secretary Of State 01/21 (Senate)
- 2025-01-21: Signed by President (Senate)
- 2025-01-21: Signed by Speaker (House)
- 2025-01-20: Returned to Senate (Senate)
- 2025-01-20: Second reading, adopted yeas 88 nays 0 (House)
- 2025-01-20: Introduced, first reading (House)
- 2025-01-16: Received from Senate (House)
- 2025-01-16: Second reading, adopted yeas 47 nays 0 (Senate)
- 2025-01-16: Introduced, first reading (Senate)

## Bill text

- Enrollment: [PDF](https://ndlegis.gov/assembly/69-2025/regular/documents/25-3055-02000.pdf)
- INTRODUCED: [PDF](https://ndlegis.gov/assembly/69-2025/regular/documents/25-3055-01000.pdf)

## Related bills

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- HB 1298: AN ACT to amend and reenact sections 39-06.1-06, 39-09-02, 39-09-04, and 39-09-07.1, and subsection 2 of section 40-05-06 of the North Dakota Century Code, rel… (signed)
- HB 1229: AN ACT to create and enact a new subdivision to subsection 2 of section 39-06.1-06 and section 39-10-71.1 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to statuto… (signed)
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## Sources
- [Enrollment (PDF)](https://ndlegis.gov/assembly/69-2025/regular/documents/25-3055-02000.pdf)
- [INTRODUCED (PDF)](https://ndlegis.gov/assembly/69-2025/regular/documents/25-3055-01000.pdf)

## Related
- [SB 2390: AN ACT to create and enact three new sections to chapter 54-40.1 of the North D…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/ND-SB2390-202501)
- [HB 1298: AN ACT to amend and reenact sections 39-06.1-06, 39-09-02, 39-09-04, and 39-09-…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/ND-HB1298-202501)
- [HB 1229: AN ACT to create and enact a new subdivision to subsection 2 of section 39-06.1…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/ND-HB1229-202501)
- [SB 2113: AN ACT to create and enact two new sections to chapter 50-06 of the North Dakot…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/ND-SB2113-202501)
- [SB 2147: AN ACT to create and enact a new subsection to section 15-10-38.4, a new subsec…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/ND-SB2147-202501)
- [SB 2018: AN ACT to provide an appropriation for defraying the expenses of the department…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/ND-SB2018-202501)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/ND-SCR4005-202501 (as of 2026-10-18).
