1. The following executive and administrative officers and departments shall submit to the governor and the secretary of state reports covering their operations for the two preceding fiscal years, except as otherwise provided by law, not later than the first day of December each year after the regular session of the legislative assembly: a. Secretary of state. b. State auditor. c. Insurance commissioner. d. Attorney general. e. Agriculture commissioner. f. Superintendent of public instruction. g. State tax commissioner. h. Public service commission. i. Department of corrections and rehabilitation. j. Department of transportation. k. Department of health and human services. l. Office of management and budget. m. State treasurer. n. Labor commissioner. o. Department of financial institutions. p. Game and fish department. q. Industrial commission. r. Job service North Dakota. s. Board of university and school lands. t. Department of environmental quality. 2. A committee composed of the director of the state historical society, the state librarian, and the secretary of state, or other persons designated to represent them, shall meet at the call of the secretary of state to set the requirements for form, style, materials, and content of biennial reports.
3. This section does not prohibit the executive and administrative officers and departments enumerated in subsection 1 from receiving additional copies of their reports as may be available and printed. 4. All officers, departments, boards, commissions, and state institutions that submit reports covering their operations for the two preceding fiscal years to the governor and the secretary of state shall submit copies of their reports in the form and style, using the materials, and having the content prescribed under subsection 2 on or before the first day of December in each year after the regular session of the legislative assembly. If submitted, one copy of each report must be also distributed to the following agencies: a. Legislative council. b. Office of management and budget. c. State law library. d. The libraries of each state institution of higher education. e. State archivist for official and public use. 5. All executive and administrative officers and departments that submit reports under this section shall bear the costs of the preparation and any printing of the reports. 6. All reports required under this section to be submitted to the secretary of state must be subsequently transmitted by the secretary of state to the state archivist for official and public use following their receipt and review by the secretary of state. 7. In lieu of printed biennial reports, an agency identified in subsection 1, may post the materials and contents determined under subsection 2 on the agency website not later than the date specified under subsection 1 and retain the materials on its website until the subsequent biennial report is posted to the agency website or biennial reports are printed and delivered under this section. An agency that elects to post the biennial report information on the agency's website shall transmit in electronic form the contents to the state archivist in the manner and format determined by the director of the state historical society.
54-06-04.1. State agencies, departments, and institutions charging fees shall make reports. All state agencies, departments, and institutions which license, inspect, or regulate private business activities or products and charge fees for such services, except the secretary of state, shall prepare and submit to the office of the budget, with the budget estimates required by section 54-44.1-04, a report for the last two fiscal years giving information about the costs of providing each service and the fees charged for the granting or providing of such service. The report must accurately present the costs and revenues in accordance with the various categories of service and such report must be completed and supported by such accounting records and allocation procedures as are acceptable to the director of the budget.
54-06-04.2. Information to employees on state employee health and retirement and social security benefit program contributions and premiums paid by the state. A report providing a summary of payments made by the state for premiums and contributions for state employee insurance, retirement, and federal social security benefit programs for each state employee must be provided to each employee every calendar year. The report must be in a form adopted by those state agencies and institutions responsible for preparing state employee payrolls. The information provided must include any portion of required employee retirement program contributions paid by the state on behalf of the employee and must include the accumulated state payments for these benefit programs for the current calendar year.