---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT to provide for a legislative management study regarding accessibility of government services for individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing, or have hearing differences."
description: "AN ACT to provide for a legislative management study regarding accessibility of government services for individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing, or have hearing differences."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nd"
legislature: "North Dakota Legislative Assembly"
session: "69"
identifier: "HB 1097"
citation: "North Dakota HB 1097 (69)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kathy Frelich"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-07"
last_action: "2025-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/815a0124-299c-4e75-ad1c-56dc045a3fd6"
source_url: "https://ndlegis.gov/api/assembly/69-2025/data/bills.json"
source_hash: "bc1a7f1f0a745e416d34234a671f0032394da61b5ee15d8c2a6a181cab801b09"
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 1097 (69) — AN ACT to provide for a legislative management study regarding accessibility of government services for individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing, or have hearing differences.

## Version chain

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

1. **INTRODUCED** (filed) — [source](https://ndlegis.gov/assembly/69-2025/regular/documents/25-0434-01000.pdf)
2. **Enrollment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://ndlegis.gov/assembly/69-2025/regular/documents/25-0434-02000.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion for Final Passage on HB 1097 — **87–1** (pass) · lower
- Motion for Final Passage on HB 1097 — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kathy Frelich — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-07** Introduced, first reading, referred Human Services Committee `introduction`
- **2025-01-14** Committee Hearing 03:00
- **2025-01-16** Reported back, do pass, place on calendar 13 0 0 `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-17** Second reading, passed, yeas 87 nays 1 `passage, reading-2`
- **2025-01-20** Received from House
- **2025-02-13** Introduced, first reading, referred Human Services Committee `introduction`
- **2025-03-05** Committee Hearing 01:00
- **2025-03-12** Reported back, do pass, place on calendar 5 0 1 `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Second reading, passed, yeas 47 nays 0 `passage, reading-2`
- **2025-03-14** Returned to House
- **2025-03-17** Signed by President
- **2025-03-18** Signed by Speaker
- **2025-03-18** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-21** Signed by Governor 03/19 `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-24** Filed with Secretary Of State 03/20 `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/815a0124-299c-4e75-ad1c-56dc045a3fd6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Dakota legislature records).