republic-os/legislation/us/states/nd/68/hb-1234.md

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Bill	AN ACT to create and enact a new section to chapter 11-10 and a new section to chapter 40-01 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to prohibiting a county or city from prohibiting the connection or reconnection of utilities services.	Relating to prohibiting a county or city from prohibiting the connection or reconnection of utilities services.	us/states/nd	North Dakota Legislative Assembly	68	HB 1234	North Dakota HB 1234 (68)	bill		enacted	Pat D. Heinert	3	19	2	2023-01-10	2023-03-23	openstates	ocd-bill/bf1ba56c-28a7-4480-9ccd-695174e159b6	https://ndlegis.gov/api/assembly/68-2023/data/bills.json	7b43156e8c74c02a51bddd3ee39b3ea6030ff3f40a12aa1a2b716c1d5b7668b8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-nd

North Dakota HB 1234 (68) — AN ACT to create and enact a new section to chapter 11-10 and a new section to chapter 40-01 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to prohibiting a county or city from prohibiting the connection or reconnection of utilities services.

Relating to prohibiting a county or city from prohibiting the connection or reconnection of utilities services.

Version chain

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

1. INTRODUCED (filed) — source
2. Enrollment (committee substitute) — source
3. FIRST ENGROSSMENT (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Motion for Final Passage on HB 1234 — 93–0 (pass) · lower
• Motion for Final Passage on HB 1234 — 43–3 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Pat D. Heinert — primary (person)
• Anna S. Novak — cosponsor (person)
• Dale Patten — cosponsor (person)
• Glenn Bosch — cosponsor (person)
• Jared Hagert — cosponsor (person)
• Jason Dockter — cosponsor (person)
• Jim Kasper — cosponsor (person)
• Jordan L. Kannianen — cosponsor (person)
• Matthew Ruby — cosponsor (person)
• Todd Porter — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-10 Introduced, first reading, referred Political Subdivisions Committee introduction
• 2023-01-12 Request return from committee
• 2023-01-12 Rereferred to Energy and Natural Resources
• 2023-01-27 Committee Hearing 09:00
• 2023-01-27 Committee Hearing 10:20
• 2023-01-30 Reported back amended, do pass, amendment placed on calendar 12 0 2 committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-01-31 Amendment adopted, placed on calendar
• 2023-02-01 Second reading, passed, yeas 93 nays 0 passage, reading-2
• 2023-02-02 Received from House
• 2023-02-13 Introduced, first reading, referred Industry and Business Committee introduction
• 2023-03-08 Committee Hearing 09:00
• 2023-03-08 Reported back, do pass, place on calendar 5 0 0 committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-09 Second reading, passed, yeas 43 nays 3 passage, reading-2
• 2023-03-10 Returned to House
• 2023-03-13 Signed by President
• 2023-03-14 Signed by Speaker
• 2023-03-15 Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-03-17 Signed by Governor 03/15 executive-signature
• 2023-03-23 Filed with Secretary Of State 03/16 introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bf1ba56c-28a7-4480-9ccd-695174e159b6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Dakota legislature records).