North DakotaFunds retirement office operations and limits vacant-position spending
The measure would fund the North Dakota Retirement and Investment Office for the 2025–27 biennium, subject to the listed spending limits and reporting rules.
What it does
The measure would provide $16.55 million in special funds for the Retirement and Investment Office during the 2025–27 budget period, including money for 35 full-time positions.
The measure would set aside $250,000 for one-time information-technology consulting and require the office to report how it used the money.
The office could not spend its vacant-position pool directly, but it could request a transfer into salaries and wages under House Bill 1015’s rules.
Argument forFunding for staff, operations, and technology could help the retirement office keep its services running during the 2025–27 budget period.
Argument againstThe vacant-position money cannot be spent directly, which could limit the office’s flexibility unless a transfer is approved under separate rules.
More detail
The measure would provide special-fund money for the office’s salaries, vacant positions, operating costs, and contingencies. The funding covers the Retirement and Investment Office and includes 35 full-time equivalent positions. The office may use only the amount needed for its listed expenses. The listed funding comes from special funds. The appropriation would cover the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2027.
The office would report its use of the one-time consulting money to the appropriations committees of the next legislative assembly. The requirement covers $250,000 in one-time other-fund money for information-technology consulting. The amount would not be included in the office’s base budget for the 2027–29 biennium. The office would report the funding’s use to the seventieth legislative assembly’s appropriations committees.
The office may not spend money directly from the new and vacant position pool, but it may ask to move that money into salaries and wages. The rule applies to the $470,466 new and vacant full-time-position pool listed in the appropriation. Any transfer request must follow the guidelines and reporting rules in House Bill 1015, as approved by the legislative assembly. The spending limit and possible transfer request apply during the appropriation period beginning July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2027.
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- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
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History
- 2025
- Jun 11Filed with Secretary Of State 05/02Latest
- May 2Signed by Governor Kelly Armstrong 05/01Became Law
- May 1Sent to GovernorTo Governor
- May 1Signed by Speaker
- Apr 29Signed by President
- Apr 28Second reading, passed as amended, yeas 41 nays 6Major
- Vote recorded Motion for Final Passage on HB 1022. Result: pass.Upper
- Apr 28Conference committee report adopted
- Apr 24Reported back from conference committee, in place of, placed on calendarMinor
- Vote recorded Motion for Final Passage on HB 1022. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 24Second reading, passed, yeas 83 nays 10Major
- Apr 24Conference committee report adopted
- Apr 22Reported back from conference committee, in place of, placed on calendarMinor
- Apr 11Conference committee appointed Davison Magrum Dever
- Apr 9Conference committee appointed Bosch Kempenich Meier
- Apr 9Refused to concur
- Apr 3Returned to House (12)
- Apr 2Second reading, passed as amended, yeas 44 nays 3Passed Senate
- Vote recorded Motion for Final Passage on HB 1022. Result: pass.Upper
- Apr 2Amendment failedMinor
- Apr 2Amendment proposed on floorMinor
- Mar 31Amendment adopted, placed on calendar
- Mar 28Reported back amended, do pass, amendment placed on calendar 14 2 0Minor
- Mar 6Committee Hearing 08:30
- Feb 18Introduced, first reading, referred Appropriations CommitteeMinor
- Feb 18Received from House
- Feb 17Second reading, passed, yeas 73 nays 16Passed House
- Vote recorded Motion for Final Passage on HB 1022. Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 14Amendment adopted, placed on calendar
- Feb 13Reported back amended, do pass, amendment placed on calendar 22 0 1Minor
- Feb 4Committee Hearing 10:00
- Jan 28Committee Hearing 08:30
- Jan 21Committee Hearing 08:30
- Jan 13Committee Hearing 03:00
- Jan 7Introduced, first reading, referred Appropriations CommitteeIntroduced
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