---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT to amend and reenact section 6-09.4-23 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to withholding school district state aid payments and the school district credit enhancement program."
description: "Relating to withholding school district state aid payments and the school district credit enhancement program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nd"
legislature: "North Dakota Legislative Assembly"
session: "68"
identifier: "HB 1125"
citation: "North Dakota HB 1125 (68)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Richter"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-03"
last_action: "2023-03-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/832a981e-2b5c-4329-8681-44d6ef8436c7"
source_url: "https://ndlegis.gov/api/assembly/68-2023/data/bills.json"
source_hash: "135bb97daee7a3b620d2a6ccc7973b8582c0a0f39a08c1e65fd25d7ca1eb8017"
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 1125 (68) — AN ACT to amend and reenact section 6-09.4-23 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to withholding school district state aid payments and the school district credit enhancement program.

Relating to withholding school district state aid payments and the school district credit enhancement program.

## Version chain

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

1. **INTRODUCED** (filed) — [source](https://ndlegis.gov/assembly/68-2023/regular/documents/23-0317-01000.pdf)
2. **Enrollment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://ndlegis.gov/assembly/68-2023/regular/documents/23-0317-03000.pdf)
3. **FIRST ENGROSSMENT** (committee substitute) — [source](https://ndlegis.gov/assembly/68-2023/regular/documents/23-0317-02000.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion for Final Passage on HB 1125 — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- Motion for Final Passage on HB 1125 — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- David Richter — primary (person)
- Dale Patten — cosponsor (person)
- David Monson — cosponsor (person)
- Donald Schaible — cosponsor (person)
- Donald W. Longmuir — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Nathe — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-03** Introduced, first reading, referred Education Committee `introduction`
- **2023-01-30** Committee Hearing 02:30
- **2023-01-31** Committee Hearing 11:00
- **2023-02-01** Reported back amended, do pass, amendment placed on calendar 13 0 1 `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-02** Amendment adopted, placed on calendar
- **2023-02-06** Second reading, passed, yeas 93 nays 0 `passage, reading-2`
- **2023-02-07** Received from House
- **2023-02-10** Introduced, first reading, referred Education Committee `introduction`
- **2023-03-06** Committee Hearing 10:30
- **2023-03-07** Reported back, do pass, place on calendar 6 0 0 `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-08** Second reading, passed, yeas 47 nays 0 `passage, reading-2`
- **2023-03-09** Returned to House
- **2023-03-10** Signed by President
- **2023-03-14** Signed by Speaker
- **2023-03-14** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-16** Signed by Governor 03/15 `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-23** Filed with Secretary Of State 03/15 `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/832a981e-2b5c-4329-8681-44d6ef8436c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Dakota legislature records).