---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT to provide an appropriation to the department of health and human services to reimburse child-placing agencies for the costs of home study reports."
description: "AN ACT to provide an appropriation to the department of health and human services to reimburse child-placing agencies for the costs of home study reports."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nd"
legislature: "North Dakota Legislative Assembly"
session: "68"
identifier: "HB 1375"
citation: "North Dakota HB 1375 (68)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jay Fisher"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-13"
last_action: "2023-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4a6a5e3c-d269-420a-a654-0bf8a7ce8714"
source_url: "https://ndlegis.gov/api/assembly/68-2023/data/bills.json"
source_hash: "31fbbcb19b54cb28ee85766987f8c3c37e4962c040709c0c96984bf43013a8bc"
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 1375 (68) — AN ACT to provide an appropriation to the department of health and human services to reimburse child-placing agencies for the costs of home study reports.

## 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/23-0902-01000.pdf)
2. **Enrollment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://ndlegis.gov/assembly/68-2023/regular/documents/23-0902-02000.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion for Final Passage on HB 1375 — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- Motion for Final Passage on HB 1375 — **92–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jay Fisher — primary (person)
- Brandon Prichard — cosponsor (person)
- Carrie McLeod — cosponsor (person)
- Cole Christensen — cosponsor (person)
- Cynthia Schreiber-Beck — cosponsor (person)
- Emily O'Brien — cosponsor (person)
- Janne Myrdal — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Karls — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Sanford — cosponsor (person)
- Randy A. Burckhard — cosponsor (person)
- SuAnn Olson — cosponsor (person)
- Terry M. Wanzek — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-13** Introduced, first reading, referred Human Services Committee `introduction`
- **2023-01-31** Committee Hearing 09:45
- **2023-02-01** Committee Hearing 02:56
- **2023-02-02** Reported back, do pass 13 0 1 `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-02** Rereferred to Appropriations
- **2023-02-09** Committee Hearing 09:30
- **2023-02-16** Committee Hearing 11:38
- **2023-02-16** Reported back, do pass, place on calendar 23 0 0 `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-21** Second reading, passed, yeas 92 nays 2 `passage, reading-2`
- **2023-03-03** Received from House
- **2023-03-03** Introduced, first reading, referred Human Services Committee `introduction`
- **2023-03-13** Committee Hearing 02:45
- **2023-03-14** Committee Hearing 04:17
- **2023-03-20** Committee Hearing 04:23
- **2023-03-21** Reported back, do pass 5 0 1 `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-21** Rereferred to Appropriations
- **2023-03-27** Committee Hearing 02:00
- **2023-03-30** Reported back, do pass, place on calendar 15 0 1 `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-31** Second reading, passed, yeas 44 nays 0 `passage, reading-2`
- **2023-04-03** Returned to House
- **2023-04-05** Signed by President
- **2023-04-06** Signed by Speaker
- **2023-04-06** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-07** Signed by Governor 04/06 `executive-signature`
- **2023-04-13** Filed with Secretary Of State 04/10 `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4a6a5e3c-d269-420a-a654-0bf8a7ce8714`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Dakota legislature records).