An act to create and enact a new section to chapter 15.1-07 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to school districts allowing students to leave campus to vote in elections., the official text

Sixty-ninth Legislative Assembly of North Dakota In Regular Session Commencing Tuesday, January 7, 2025
HOUSE BILL NO. 1178 (Representatives Novak, Hager, Murphy, J. Olson, Schreiber-Beck, Swiontek)
(Senators Boehm, Cory, Mathern)
AN ACT to create and enact a new section to chapter 15.1-07 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to school districts allowing students to leave campus to vote in elections.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA: SECTION 1. A new section to chapter 15.1-07 of the North Dakota Century Code is created and
enacted as follows: School districts - Policy - Voting. Each school district shall adopt a policy allowing a student who is a qualified elector to leave
campus to vote in a general, special, or primary election. The policy may include conditions for the student's absence, including a limitation on the length of time the student may be absent or a designated time to vote.

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____________________________ Speaker of the House

____________________________ President of the Senate

____________________________ Chief Clerk of the House

____________________________ Secretary of the Senate

This certifies that the within bill originated in the House of Representatives of the Sixty-ninth Legislative Assembly of North Dakota and is known on the records of that body as House Bill No. 1178.

House Vote: Senate Vote:

Yeas 86 Yeas 24

Nays 1 Nays 23

Absent 7 Absent 0

____________________________ Chief Clerk of the House
Received by the Governor at ________M. on _____________________________________, 2025. Approved at ________M. on __________________________________________________, 2025.

____________________________ Governor
Filed in this office this ___________day of _______________________________________, 2025, at ________ o’clock ________M.

____________________________ Secretary of State