---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT to provide an appropriation to the state historical society for Native American grave protection and repatriation compliance efforts."
description: "AN ACT to provide an appropriation to the state historical society for Native American grave protection and repatriation compliance efforts."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nd"
legislature: "North Dakota Legislative Assembly"
session: "69"
identifier: "HB 1603"
citation: "North Dakota HB 1603 (69)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Collette Brown"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-20"
last_action: "2025-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9536d312-b6d9-4d64-b26a-f4dd22122f89"
source_url: "https://ndlegis.gov/api/assembly/69-2025/data/bills.json"
source_hash: "e2502472948bbdb66526655093b2d42836de0a6ad54f15954a7fe96293e62fd9"
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 1603 (69) — AN ACT to provide an appropriation to the state historical society for Native American grave protection and repatriation compliance efforts.

## 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/25-1329-01000.pdf)
2. **Enrollment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://ndlegis.gov/assembly/69-2025/regular/documents/25-1329-04000.pdf)
3. **FIRST ENGROSSMENT** (committee substitute) — [source](https://ndlegis.gov/assembly/69-2025/regular/documents/25-1329-02000.pdf)
4. **SECOND ENGROSSMENT** (committee substitute) — [source](https://ndlegis.gov/assembly/69-2025/regular/documents/25-1329-03000.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion for Final Passage on HB 1603 — **87–0** (pass) · lower
- Motion for Final Passage on HB 1603 — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Collette Brown — primary (person)
- Jayme Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Jon O. Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Josh Boschee — cosponsor (person)
- Lisa Finley-DeVille — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Braunberger — cosponsor (person)
- Tim Mathern — cosponsor (person)
- Zachary Ista — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20** Introduced, first reading, referred Government and Veterans Affairs Committee `introduction`
- **2025-01-31** Committee Hearing 10:00
- **2025-02-10** Reported back amended, do pass, amendment placed on calendar 12 1 1 `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-11** Amendment adopted
- **2025-02-11** Rereferred to Appropriations
- **2025-02-18** Reported back amended, do pass, amendment placed on calendar 20 0 3 `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-19** Amendment adopted, placed on calendar
- **2025-02-20** Second reading, passed, yeas 87 nays 0 `passage, reading-2`
- **2025-02-21** Received from House
- **2025-02-24** Introduced, first reading, referred State and Local Government Committee `introduction`
- **2025-03-27** Committee Hearing 03:15
- **2025-03-28** Reported back, do pass 6 0 0 `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** Rereferred to Appropriations
- **2025-04-08** Reported back, do pass, place on calendar 15 0 1 `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-09** Second reading, passed, yeas 46 nays 0 `passage, reading-2`
- **2025-04-09** Returned to House
- **2025-04-14** Signed by President
- **2025-04-15** Signed by Speaker
- **2025-04-15** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-18** Signed by Governor 04/16 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-21** Filed with Secretary Of State 04/16 `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9536d312-b6d9-4d64-b26a-f4dd22122f89`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Dakota legislature records).