---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT to provide for a legislative management study of the use of technology to enable remote attendance at interim legislative committee meetings."
description: "AN ACT to provide for a legislative management study of the use of technology to enable remote attendance at interim legislative committee meetings."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nd"
legislature: "North Dakota Legislative Assembly"
session: "66"
identifier: "HB 1401"
citation: "North Dakota HB 1401 (66)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY", "LEGISLATIVE BRANCH", "LEGISLATIVE MANAGEMENT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beadle", "Bekkedahl", "Mitskog", "Pyle", "Schobinger"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-01-11"
last_action: "2019-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1c105009-bcd4-4178-b93d-7e84b938cbc5"
source_url: "http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/66-2019/bill-actions/ba1401.html"
source_hash: "81de0abcaaf9cb87033763a315a18ec94ca74154d6670ce462300c748cfeeb07"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nd"]
---

# North Dakota HB 1401 (66) — AN ACT to provide for a legislative management study of the use of technology to enable remote attendance at interim legislative committee meetings.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **INTRODUCED** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/66-2019/documents/19-0951-02000.pdf)
2. **Enrollment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/66-2019/documents/19-0951-03000.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Beadle — primary (person)
- Bekkedahl — primary (person)
- Mitskog — primary (person)
- Pyle — primary (person)
- Schobinger — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-01-11** Introduced, first reading, referred Government and Veterans Affairs Committee `introduction`
- **2019-02-01** Committee Hearing 08:00
- **2019-02-04** Reported back, do pass, place on calendar 11 2 1 `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-07** Second reading, passed, yeas 68 nays 22 `reading-2, passage`
- **2019-02-08** Received from House
- **2019-02-18** Introduced, first reading, referred Government and Veterans Affairs Committee `introduction`
- **2019-03-22** Committee Hearing 09:30
- **2019-03-22** Reported back, do pass, place on calendar 7 0 0 `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-27** Second reading, passed, yeas 35 nays 12 `reading-2, passage`
- **2019-03-28** Returned to House
- **2019-03-29** Signed by President
- **2019-04-01** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-04-01** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-05** Signed by Governor 04/04 `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-08** Filed with Secretary Of State 04/05 `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1c105009-bcd4-4178-b93d-7e84b938cbc5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Dakota legislature records).