---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT to provide for a legislative management study relating to tribal land taxation."
description: "Relating to tribal land taxation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nd"
legislature: "North Dakota Legislative Assembly"
session: "69"
identifier: "HB 1563"
citation: "North Dakota HB 1563 (69)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jayme Davis"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-20"
last_action: "2025-03-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/25664a5f-52ca-419b-a302-aa366836b3bc"
source_url: "https://ndlegis.gov/api/assembly/69-2025/data/bills.json"
source_hash: "4862c16ecb4353ac535183e32cc8c3d5ec92afafadbc2454f5e77ef874701509"
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 1563 (69) — AN ACT to provide for a legislative management study relating to tribal land taxation.

Relating to tribal land taxation.

## 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/25-1231-01000.pdf)
2. **Enrollment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://ndlegis.gov/assembly/69-2025/regular/documents/25-1231-03000.pdf)
3. **FIRST ENGROSSMENT** (committee substitute) — [source](https://ndlegis.gov/assembly/69-2025/regular/documents/25-1231-02000.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion for Final Passage on HB 1563 — **44–1** (pass) · upper
- Motion for Final Passage on HB 1563 — **90–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jayme Davis — primary (person)
- Austin Foss — cosponsor (person)
- Collette Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Dawson Holle — cosponsor (person)
- Kent Weston — cosponsor (person)
- Lisa Finley-DeVille — cosponsor (person)
- Richard Marcellais — cosponsor (person)
- Zachary Ista — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20** Introduced, first reading, referred Finance and Taxation Committee `introduction`
- **2025-01-29** Committee Hearing 10:00
- **2025-01-30** Reported back amended, do pass, amendment placed on calendar 13 0 1 `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-31** Amendment adopted, placed on calendar
- **2025-02-04** Second reading, passed, yeas 90 nays 1 `passage, reading-2`
- **2025-02-05** Received from House
- **2025-02-06** Introduced, first reading, referred Finance and Taxation Committee `introduction`
- **2025-02-12** Committee Hearing 09:30
- **2025-03-07** Reported back, do pass, place on calendar 6 0 0 `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-10** Amendment proposed on floor `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-03-10** Amendment failed `amendment-failure`
- **2025-03-10** Second reading, passed, yeas 44 nays 1 `passage, reading-2`
- **2025-03-11** Returned to House
- **2025-03-12** Signed by President
- **2025-03-14** Signed by Speaker
- **2025-03-14** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-18** Signed by Governor 03/17 `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-20** Filed with Secretary Of State 03/18 `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/25664a5f-52ca-419b-a302-aa366836b3bc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Dakota legislature records).