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Sixty-ninth Legislative Assembly of North Dakota In Regular Session Commencing Tuesday, January 7, 2025 SENATE BILL NO. 2340 (Senators Kessel, Bekkedahl, Hogue, Patten) (Representative Porter) AN ACT to provide for a legislative management study to evaluate the evolving fire service operational and response needs of the state. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA: SECTION 1. LEGISLATIVE MANAGEMENT STUDY - FIRE SERVICE REGIONAL RESPONSE MODEL. 1. During the 2025-26 interim, the legislative management shall study the evolving fire service operational and response needs of the state. The study must include an examination of the: a. Coordination of efforts of existing state resources for improved fire emergency service organization, distribution, mobilization, training, and oversight. b. Creation of fire service regional response teams. c. Establishment of authority for response, standardized training, wildland-urban interface fire prevention codes, emergency response operational initiatives and responsibilities. d. Evaluation of existing staffing abilities to cross-train, provide further services, provide backfill during extended or complex emergencies, minimum training requirements, staff firefighting authorities, firefighting benefits, necessary equipment, and structural needs. e. Identification and implementation of a restructure of fiscal support for state and local fire service in North Dakota, reducing the dependency on local property tax. f. A review of changes necessary to state laws and administrative rules to implement a unified model. 2. The study must include consultation with state fire marshal, the North Dakota firefighter's association, the North Dakota forest service, the department of emergency services, the North Dakota fire chief's association, the department of career and technical education, and other stakeholders. The legislative management may contract with a consultant to carry out this study. The legislative management shall report the findings and recommendations, together with any legislation required to implement the recommendations, to the seventieth legislative assembly. S. B. NO. 2340 - PAGE 2 ____________________________ President of the Senate ____________________________ Speaker of the House ____________________________ Secretary of the Senate ____________________________ Chief Clerk of the House This certifies that the within bill originated in the Senate of the Sixty-ninth Legislative Assembly of North Dakota and is known on the records of that body as Senate Bill No. 2340. Senate Vote: House Vote: Yeas 46 Yeas 90 Nays 0 Nays 1 Absent 1 Absent 3 ____________________________ Secretary of the Senate 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
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