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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT to amend and reenact section 440418.6 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to exempting records of communications between legislators and public employees from open records laws."
description: "AN ACT to amend and reenact section 440418.6 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to exempting records of communications between legislators and public employees from open records laws."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nd"
legislature: "North Dakota Legislative Assembly"
session: "66"
identifier: "SB 2221"
citation: "North Dakota SB 2221 (66)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY", "OPEN RECORDS", "PUBLIC EMPLOYEES - SEE ALSO STATE EMPLOYEES; TEACHERS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Lee", "Kreun", "Mathern", "Roers Jones", "Schatz"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 25
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-01-11"
last_action: "2019-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cff7da60-d51f-4d08-94da-d1bf19a5968d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/66-2019/bill-actions/ba2221.html"
source_hash: "52e384505bdc95ccb565d81f90ce6393142d785a81de70cc1c15e25aff57ed1d"
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 SB 2221 (66) — AN ACT to amend and reenact section 440418.6 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](http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/66-2019/documents/19-0021-01000.pdf)
2. **Adopted by the House Government and Veterans Affairs Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/66-2019/documents/19-0021-02001a.pdf)
3. **Adopted by the House Government and Veterans Affairs Committee (Marked Up)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/66-2019/documents/19-0021-02001m.pdf)
4. **Enrollment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/66-2019/documents/19-0021-04000.pdf)
5. **FIRST ENGROSSMENT** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/66-2019/documents/19-0021-02000.pdf)
6. **FIRST ENGROSSMENT with House Amendments** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/66-2019/documents/19-0021-03000.pdf)
7. **Prepared by the Legislative Council staff for Senator Oban** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/66-2019/documents/19-0021-01001a.pdf)
8. **Prepared by the Legislative Council staff for Senator Oban (Marked Up)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/66-2019/documents/19-0021-01001m.pdf)
## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cff7da60-d51f-4d08-94da-d1bf19a5968d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Dakota legislature records).