Title 54 — State Government

1. The North Dakota legislative management consists of the majority and minority leaders of the house and of the senate, the speaker of the house, and six senators and six representatives chosen biennially before the close of each regular legislative session. 2. In the house of r…

In addition to the other applicable provisions of this chapter, the legislative management has the following powers and duties: 1. To study, consider, accumulate, compile, and assemble information on any subject upon which the legislative assembly may legislate, and upon such sub…

For the purposes of studying and reviewing the financial transactions of this state; to assure the collection and expenditure of its revenues and moneys in compliance with law and legislative intent and sound financial practices; and to provide the legislative assembly with forma…

Each biennium, the legislative audit and fiscal review committee, in consultation with the state auditor, shall review updates to government auditing standards and develop guidelines for the contents of state agency audit reports. The legislative audit and fiscal review committee…

The legislative audit and fiscal review committee shall study and review audit reports as selected by the committee from those submitted by the state auditor, confer with the auditor and deputy auditors in regard to such reports, and when necessary, confer with representatives of…

1. During each interim, the employee benefits programs committee shall consider and report on the legislative proposals over which the committee takes jurisdiction and which fiscally impact the retirement programs of state employees or employees of any political subdivision, and …

The legislative management, during each biennium, shall appoint an administrative rules committee in the same manner as the legislative management appoints other interim committees. The legislative management shall designate the chairman of the committee. The committee shall oper…

1. The legislative management, during each biennium, shall appoint a water topics overview committee in the same manner as the legislative management appoints other interim committees. The committee must meet quarterly during the interim and is responsible for legislative overvie…

The legislative management, during each biennium, shall appoint an ethics committee to consider or prepare a legislative code of ethics. The committee must include members of the majority and minority parties of each house. The committee may recommend legislation relating to legi…

1. To provide for flexibility in the management of state funds between regular sessions of the legislative assembly and to minimize the need for and the expense of a special session, the legislative management, during each biennium, shall appoint a budget section. 2. The membersh…

Each department, board, commission, agency, officer, or employee in the state government shall furnish such information and render such assistance to the legislative council and to the legislative management as the legislative council or the legislative management or its committe…

The legislative management or committee appointed by it, may sit at such time and place as it may deem advisable, but the legislative management shall meet at least once in each year and shall meet at any time upon the call of the chairman or a call signed by seven members of the…

The governor may send messages to such meetings of the legislative management as the governor determines advisable.

1. The legislative management chairman must be the majority leader of one house of the legislative assembly, or the majority leader's designee, and the vice chairman must be the majority leader of the opposite house of the legislative assembly, or the majority leader's designee. …

The legislative management shall keep minutes of its meetings and a record of all its transactions and shall at the beginning of each biennial legislative session, and may at any other time, make a report of its activities and recommendations to the members of the legislative ass…

The legislative management may require that any recommendation for legislation, which is to be presented by any department, board, commission, agency, officer, official, or employee of the state desiring the consideration of the legislative management, be presented to it at least…

The recommendations of the legislative management must be completed and made public prior to any session of the legislative assembly at which such recommendations are to be submitted; and a copy of the recommendations must be distributed to each member-elect of the legislative as…

1. The members of the legislative management and the members of any committee of the legislative management are entitled to be compensated for the time spent in attendance at sessions of the legislative management and of its committees at the rate of two hundred nineteen dollars …

The legislative management shall appoint a legislative budget analyst and auditor. A person is not eligible for the appointment unless the person holds a baccalaureate degree from a recognized institution of higher learning, is a certified public accountant, or has had five years…

The salaries, travel, and other expenses of the legislative budget analyst and auditor and other personnel within the legislative budget analyst and auditor's office must be submitted, approved, and paid in the same manner as other employees of the legislative council.

The legislative budget analyst and auditor shall attend all budget hearings carried on by the executive budget officer and shall have access to all budget material submitted to, and all studies carried on by, the executive budget officer. The legislative budget analyst and audito…

1. The legislative council shall provide information technology research and staff services to the legislative branch. The services must be provided in accordance with the existing statutory authority of the legislative council and within the framework of its other staff services…

The legislative management, during each biennium, shall appoint an information technology committee in the same manner as the legislative management appoints other interim committees. The legislative management shall appoint six members of the house of representatives and five me…

The information technology committee has continuing existence and may meet and conduct its business during the legislative session and in the interim between sessions. The committee shall: 1. Meet at least once each calendar quarter. 2. Receive a report from the chief information…

The information technology committee may request the state auditor to conduct an information technology compliance review. The review may consist of an audit of an agency's information technology management, information technology planning, compliance with information technology …

The legislative management may issue a call for the legislative assembly to convene after it has adjourned under subsection 2 of section 54-03-02. The length of a legislative session called under this section may not exceed the number of natural days available under the constitut…

When the legislative assembly is in session, either house by resolution may authorize, or both houses by concurrent resolution may direct, the legislative council to appoint or retain legal counsel to appear in, commence, prosecute, defend, or intervene in any action, suit, matte…

1. The legislative management, during each biennium, shall appoint an energy development and transmission committee in the same manner as the legislative management appoints other interim committees. 2. The legislative management shall appoint six members of the house of represen…

Expired under S.L. 2003, ch. 36, § 20.

Expired under S.L. 2003, ch. 36, § 21.

Expired pursuant to S.L. 1999, ch. 467, § 3.

All fees received by the legislative council and the legislative assembly for providing legislative information services and copies of legislative documents must be deposited in the legislative services fund in the state treasury. The legislative services fund is a revolving fund…

Repealed by S.L. 2023, ch. 584, § 2.

1. The committee on tribal and state relations is composed of seven members as follows: a. A chairman designated by the chairman of the legislative management; b. Three members of the house of representatives, two of whom must be selected by the leader representing the majority f…

Expired by S.L. 2013, ch.414, §1.

The legislative management shall establish a policy regarding promotional expenses made on behalf of the legislative assembly. Any expenditure made pursuant to this section must be reported to the legislative management. An expenditure under this section may not be construed as a…

1. The legislative management shall assign to one or more interim committees a study of selected state agency fees as provided in this section. a. By July 1, 2022, each state agency that is authorized to impose forty fees or fewer shall submit a report to the office of management…