republic-os/legislation/us/states/nd/66/sb-2221.md

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Bill	AN ACT to amend and reenact section 44‑04‑18.6 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to exempting records of communications between legislators and public employees from open records laws.	AN ACT to amend and reenact section 44‑04‑18.6 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to exempting records of communications between legislators and public employees from open records laws.	us/states/nd	North Dakota Legislative Assembly	66	SB 2221	North Dakota SB 2221 (66)	bill	LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OPEN RECORDS PUBLIC EMPLOYEES - SEE ALSO STATE EMPLOYEES; TEACHERS	enacted	J. Lee Kreun Mathern Roers Jones Schatz	8	25	0	2019-01-11	2019-04-25	openstates	ocd-bill/cff7da60-d51f-4d08-94da-d1bf19a5968d	http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/66-2019/bill-actions/ba2221.html	52e384505bdc95ccb565d81f90ce6393142d785a81de70cc1c15e25aff57ed1d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-nd

North Dakota SB 2221 (66) — AN ACT to amend and reenact section 44‑04‑18.6 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to exempting records of communications between legislators and public employees from open records laws.

Version chain

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

1. INTRODUCED (filed) — source
2. Adopted by the House Government and Veterans Affairs Committee (committee substitute) — source
3. Adopted by the House Government and Veterans Affairs Committee (Marked Up) (committee substitute) — source
4. Enrollment (committee substitute) — source
5. FIRST ENGROSSMENT (committee substitute) — source
6. FIRST ENGROSSMENT with House Amendments (committee substitute) — source
7. Prepared by the Legislative Council staff for Senator Oban (committee substitute) — source
8. Prepared by the Legislative Council staff for Senator Oban (Marked Up) (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• J. Lee — primary (person)
• Kreun — primary (person)
• Mathern — primary (person)
• Roers Jones — primary (person)
• Schatz — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-11 Introduced, first reading, referred Government and Veterans Affairs Committee introduction
• 2019-02-08 Committee Hearing 09:00
• 2019-02-18 Reported back amended, do pass, amendment placed on calendar 7 0 0 committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-02-18 Amendment adopted, placed on calendar
• 2019-02-18 Second reading, passed, yeas 30 nays 17 reading-2, passage
• 2019-02-19 Received from Senate
• 2019-02-27 Introduced, first reading, referred Government and Veterans Affairs Committee introduction
• 2019-03-08 Committee Hearing 08:30
• 2019-03-25 Reported back amended, do pass, amendment placed on calendar 11 1 2 committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-27 Amendment adopted, placed on calendar
• 2019-03-29 Second reading, passed as amended, yeas 82 nays 5 reading-2, passage
• 2019-03-29 Returned to Senate (12)
• 2019-04-02 Refused to concur
• 2019-04-02 Conference committee appointed K. Roers Meyer Oban
• 2019-04-09 Conference committee appointed Steiner Rohr Laning
• 2019-04-18 Reported back from conference committee, placed on calendar (Senate accede) committee-passage
• 2019-04-18 Conference committee report adopted
• 2019-04-18 Second reading, passed, yeas 37 nays 10 reading-2, passage
• 2019-04-18 Reported back from conference committee, placed on calendar (Senate accede) committee-passage
• 2019-04-19 Conference committee report adopted
• 2019-04-22 Signed by Speaker
• 2019-04-22 Signed by President
• 2019-04-22 Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-04-24 Signed by Governor 04/24 executive-signature
• 2019-04-25 Filed with Secretary Of State 04/24 introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cff7da60-d51f-4d08-94da-d1bf19a5968d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Dakota legislature records).