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North Dakota 2025 House Bill 1025: advanced nuclear study and appropriation

North Dakota's 2025 House Bill 1025 orders an interim study of advanced nuclear plants, including small modular and microreactors, and appropriates up to $300,000 in general funds and up to $300,000 in nonstate special funds for consulting through 30 June 2027. The enrolled signature lines are blank, and the overview's 16 April filing and 18 April signing lines conflict, so no signature day is stored.

Category
Laws, rules and executive directives
Status
In effect
Instrument
statute · 2025 N.D. Sess. Laws, H.B. 1025
Issued by
North Dakota Legislative Assembly
Jurisdiction
North Dakota
Affects
State programme administration
Effective date
Not recorded
Expiry or completion
2027-06-30 — Section 2 appropriates the consulting funds for the biennium ending this date and calls that funding a one-time item. This date is not a repeal of the study direction, and it is not a finding that the money remains unspent.
Operative text
North Dakota House Bill 1025, enrolled print, 2025 (Enrolled PDF opened 4 October 2026)
Last checked · next review
2026-10-04 · 2027-04-15

Legal and geographic scope

Enrolled act of the 69th Legislative Assembly, regular session commencing 7 January 2025. During the 2025-26 interim, legislative management shall study the feasibility, siting, and deployment of advanced nuclear power plants, including small modular and microreactors and century-code restrictions. It appropriates $300,000 from the general fund, or so much as necessary, and $300,000 from special funds derived from nonstate grants or donations, to the legislative council for consulting, for the biennium beginning 1 July 2025 and ending 30 June 2027. The funding is one-time. The enrolled signature lines are blank. The legislative overview says the governor signed on 04/18 and the bill was filed with the Secretary of State on 04/16.

Not approved or still pending

The enrolled signature lines are blank. The overview prints a governor signature on 04/18 and a Secretary of State filing on 04/16, so no day is stored. The act orders a study and a consulting appropriation. It does not site or permit a reactor. The 1 July 2025 date is the biennium start printed in the appropriation, not a stored effective date of the act. The 30 June 2027 date is the printed end of that one-time appropriation, not a finding that the funds remain unspent. Chapters 38-23 and 49-22 were opened and are not this record: the waste chapter prohibits high-level radioactive waste placement in the state, and the siting chapter requires a certificate before construction of an electric energy conversion facility, including non-wind generation above 50 megawatts. Those compilations print no enactment date for the operative sections. No project is linked.

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