Karen A Anderson

Republican · ND · State Representative

Licensed hairdresser from Grafton who has served in the House since 2023 and sits on the Agriculture and Human Services committees. Active in the Walsh County Farm Bureau and a local pregnancy help center board.

Supports

AI Regulation (1 record), Limit Foreign Influence (2 records)

Mixed record

Healthcare Affordability (37 support · 10 oppose), Environment and Public Health (22 support · 10 oppose), Reduce Wealth Gap (1 support · 1 oppose),

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AI Regulation · 1 support

Voted on 2025-02-03 for HB 1351 to create criminal penalties and civil claims for sexually explicit deepfake images, including sex-offender registration provisions. On 2025-04-14, she voted for a replacement that added altered and computer-generated images to existing rules on sexually expressive images and added civil remedies for harmed people. Those remedies included damages, recovery of the offender's gains, and possible legal fees and court orders. The replacement omitted the earlier registration changes. It became law on 2025-04-21.
April 14, 2025Supports AI Regulation
Source: ndlegis.gov

Healthcare Affordability · 37 support · 10 oppose

Voted on 2025-10-21 to recommend a draft expanding pharmacists' testing, prescribing and drug substitution authority. Voted on 2026-01-23 for SB2402 to let pharmacists prescribe listed medicines and devices. These included treatments for lice and cold sores, and flu, strep throat and COVID-19 medicines after a positive test. It required patient assessment, follow-up and notice to an identified primary care provider. It also allowed certain drug substitutions with patient notice and prescriber notification, while protecting the patient's right to refuse. It became law on 2026-01-23.
January 23, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-10-21 to recommend a draft requiring physicians to complete at least one hour of nutrition and metabolic health education each renewal cycle. Voted on 2026-01-23 for SB2401 to require at least one hour of nutrition and metabolic health training for each physician license renewal. It also authorized criminal history checks for occupational therapy licensing and investigations. It became law on 2026-01-23.
January 23, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2026-01-23 for SB2403 to put $5 million into emergency operating loans for nonprofit hospitals in cities with fewer than 2,500 people. Each loan could be up to $5 million, at no more than 2 percent interest, with a term of up to 11 years. It became law on 2026-01-23.
January 23, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-10-21 to support the state's rural health grant application plan, then on 2026-01-14 to recommend a $397,873,940 federal appropriation draft. Voted on 2026-01-22 for HB1623 to authorize about $397.9 million in federal rural health grants through 2027-06-30. It also provided $600,000 to run a loan program and allowed up to $40 million in Bank of North Dakota profits for short-term loans to approved grant recipients. It became law on 2026-01-23.
January 22, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-10-21 to recommend joining the physician assistant licensing compact. Voted on 2026-01-22 for HB1622 to join the physician assistant licensing compact. It allowed qualified physician assistants licensed in other member states to seek permission to practice in North Dakota, subject to state practice limits, fees and discipline. It became law on 2026-01-23.
January 22, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1004, the public-health division budget of the Department of Health and Human Services, on 2023-02-21 and 2023-04-11. Its later House version listed $343,038,673 for 2023–2025, including $44,734,455 from the general fund and $55,120,000 for a public-health laboratory. General-fund funding rose $6,159,300 above the listed base budget. The House passed that version 79–12, and it became law on 2023-04-18. Voted against an earlier SB2012 human-services budget on 2023-04-20. Its main funding table proposed $5,105,090,509 for 2023-07-01 through 2025-06-30, including $1,881,769,143 from the general fund, $326,981,489 above the listed general-fund base budget. The House passed this version 60–32. She was absent from final passage of a later version on 2023-04-29. Voted on 2025-02-25 and 2025-05-01 for HB1012, the health and human services budget for 2025–2027. Its final department appropriation totaled about $5.79 billion, including $2.22 billion from the general fund, for health services, medical assistance, behavioral health, public health, and other department programs. The earlier House bill included $330 million for a new state hospital; the final bill removed that funding. HB1012 became law on 2025-05-16.
May 1, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-04-07 for SB 2112 to allow the Life Skills and Transition Center to serve North Dakota minors who did not qualify for developmental disability services. With required approvals, residential stays could last ninety days, with a ninety-day extension to help the child move to other care. The bill also required reports and a study of community alternatives. On 2025-04-24, she moved to adopt the conference report accepting the House version. It became law on 2025-04-30.
April 24, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB 1216 on 2025-02-19 to count payments made for patients, including prescription-drug assistance, toward deductibles and out-of-pocket limits for qualifying drugs. On 2025-04-24, voted against the revised bill, which added application and renewal rules starting 2026-01-01. It kept a federal high-deductible-plan exception and became law on 2025-04-29.
April 24, 2025Opposes Healthcare Affordability
Source: legiscan.com
Seconded a motion on 2025-03-19 to recommend SB 2297 as amended and voted for the bill on 2025-03-25 and 2025-04-22. It set separate orders for who could consent to health care for adults unable to decide and for minors whose parents could not consent. It allowed a team of at least three health professionals as a last option, while requiring continued efforts to find someone with higher priority. The final version allowed a physician, psychiatrist, or psychologist to certify an adult's inability to decide. It became law on 2025-04-29.
April 22, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1202 on 2023-01-31 and 2023-02-01 to allow state-approved medical-marijuana lozenges with child-resistant packaging, limits on marketing to minors and a 100-milligram package cap. Supported reconsideration on 2023-02-01. Both passage votes failed to reach the required two-thirds majority. Voted on 2025-02-04 and 2025-04-15 for HB1203, which allowed medical-marijuana edibles as square hard or soft lozenges with state approval and child-resistant packaging. The revised bill lowered the proposed THC limits from 10 to 5 milligrams per serving and from 100 to 50 milligrams per package. It prohibited marketing to minors and became law on 2025-04-21. Voted on 2025-03-25 and 2025-04-22 for SB2294, which let qualifying nonresidents apply for 60-day medical-marijuana cards using approved identification and a medical card from the same home state. It extended regular patient cards to two years with a fee capped at $40 and removed the requirement that the medical evaluation be in person. It also allowed regulated square-lozenge edibles with limits of 5 milligrams of THC per serving and 50 per package. The final version raised its proposed edible purchase and possession limits. The bill became law on 2025-04-29.
April 22, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored HB 1612 on 2025-01-20 and voted for it on 2025-02-21 and 2025-04-21. It directed the University of North Dakota to establish an aerospace medicine center providing mental-health support and help with aviation medical certification. The first House version provided $500,000 from the general fund. The final bill provided $250,000 from the community health trust fund and $250,000 from federal or other sources. The governor signed it on 2025-04-28.
April 21, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored SB 2348 on 2025-01-22 and voted for it on 2025-03-28. College students could meet required health-coverage rules through qualifying health-care sharing ministries. International students subject to federal visa insurance rules were excluded. It exempted qualifying ministries from insurance regulation, required audits and disclosures, and required them to state that sharing was voluntary and participants remained responsible for their bills. It became law on 2025-04-03.
March 28, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Moved on 2025-03-12 to recommend SB 2292 and send it to the Appropriations Committee, and voted for it on 2025-03-25. The bill specified the general fund as the source for reimbursing sexual assault medical screening and forensic examinations, and qualifying children's forensic interviews, within legislative funding limits. It became law on 2025-04-02. It did not itself appropriate a new funding amount.
March 25, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-03-21 for SB2293, which limited a medical-marijuana concentrate container to one gram and set a minimum age of 21 in the designated-caregiver definition. It allowed other state-approved identification documents when a patient’s medical condition prevented obtaining current North Dakota identification. The bill became law on 2025-03-27.
March 21, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against House Bill 1283, a bill to stop the state employee health plan charging for follow-up breast scans. The North Dakota House passed it 66-26, but the Senate rejected it 22-24 and it did not become law.
February 25, 2025Opposes Healthcare Affordability
Source: legiscan.com
Co-sponsored HB 1430 on 2025-01-13 and voted for its House version on 2025-02-24. It made conversion therapy an ethical violation for social workers while protecting counseling for people seeking to align sexuality or gender with personal or spiritual beliefs. That version required disclosure, consent, and respect for the person's own choices. The Senate version expressly barred such counseling from trying to change sexual orientation or gender identity. The Senate rejected that version on 2025-03-27.
February 24, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for SB2140 on 2023-04-10 to cap state-employee plan costs at $25 for a 30-day insulin supply and a separate $25 for covered dosing supplies, per pharmacy or distributor. That coverage applied through 2025-06-30; the bill became law on 2023-04-14. On 2025-02-20, supported HB1114 to extend the caps to qualifying individual and group plans and continue them for the state-employee plan. Medicare Part D was excluded; qualifying high-deductible plans kept a federal minimum-deductible exception. Insulin pumps, smart pens and continuous glucose monitors were excluded from the caps. The House passed HB1114 59–27, and it became law.
February 20, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: legiscan.com
Chief-sponsored HB 1337 on 2025-01-13 and voted for it on 2025-02-19. It proposed $10 million for mental-health and substance-use treatment for people in jail or prison. The final House proposal allowed grants to counties and contracts with private providers, with reports on services and results. The House rejected the bill on 2025-02-19.
February 19, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-02-18 for HB1067, which extended in-home Medicaid waivers for children with extraordinary medical needs or autism to people under 21 who otherwise met institutional care requirements. It also required Social Security survivor income and court-ordered child support to be disregarded for children under 18 enrolled in specified Medicaid waivers, beginning 2026-07-01. The bill became law on 2025-03-19.
February 18, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored HB 1464 on 2025-01-16 and voted for its House version on 2025-02-13. It created a state process for recognizing postpartum doula certification organizations, publishing their names, and reporting on services supporting parents and children for up to six months after birth. It barred additional state certification fees. The Senate replaced that proposal with a maternal-care services study, then rejected the study version on 2025-04-04.
February 13, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-02-10 for HB1321, which proposed raising medical-marijuana purchase and possession limits, extended patient cards from one to two years, and reduced dispensary and manufacturing-facility renewal fees. The standard monthly dried-marijuana purchase limit rose from 2.5 to 3 ounces, and the THC product limit rose from 6,000 to 9,000 milligrams. The House rejected the bill that day.
February 10, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Chief-sponsored HCR 3011 on 2025-01-29. The resolution urged Congress to provide veterans with medical coverage for hyperbaric oxygen therapy. The House adopted it on 2025-02-19 and the Senate adopted it on 2025-03-13. It did not itself create insurance coverage or fund treatment.
January 29, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2023-10-24 for HB1543 to provide $8.25 million for a Badlands-region behavioral health facility, with a matching-funds requirement and an alternative community-clinic use if no recipient was secured. It provided $26.5 million for rising career-center construction costs and $8.5 million more for Bismarck State College's academic and athletic center. It allowed up to $40 million in revenue bonds for that college project. It became law on 2023-10-25.
October 24, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-22, supported HB1447 to create an opioid-settlement fund, allocating 70% for opioid-use services and support, 20% for prevention and 10% for other remediation. On 2023-04-25, supported the revised bill, which removed that fixed split but retained a minimum 20% for prevention. It appropriated $8 million for treatment and prevention in 2023–2025, including fentanyl work. The House passed it 85–8, and it became law on 2023-04-29.
April 25, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-03, supported SB2276 to create a disability advisory council and repeal the autism task force. On 2023-04-24, supported a revised version that kept the autism task force and added a pilot paying family caregivers for extraordinary care. It provided $2.5 million and covered up to 120 eligible Medicaid-waiver participants, excluding the aged-and-disabled waiver. The House passed it 92–0, and it became law on 2023-04-26.
April 24, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-03-24, voted for SB2201 to shift medical-marijuana background-check costs to the state and lower added growing-facility fees. On 2023-04-24, supported a revised version also cutting patient application fees from a $50 maximum to $25. It passed the House 77–15 and became law on 2023-04-26.
April 24, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted in committee on 2023-02-06 and in the House on 2023-02-22 for HB1477. It provided $7 million from the community health trust fund for rural emergency medical services and ambulance districts during 2023–25. Chaired conference meetings on 2023-04-17 and 2023-04-21. Voted at both meetings to remove the Senate changes, which limited the money to one-time grants and made the ambulance-district rule changes expire on 2025-06-30. On 2023-04-21, voted against an alternative that kept the Senate funding changes but removed that expiration date. The final bill restored the House version, including the broader operations funding and changes to district formation and annexation rules. It became law on 2023-04-27.
April 21, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1052 on 2023-01-19 and 2023-04-20. It expanded workers’ compensation preventive treatment for workplace exposure to bloodborne diseases and rabies beyond specified emergency and health workers. It also authorized sharing employer and claim information with government and law enforcement agencies for their official duties. The bill became law on 2023-04-26. The House vote on 2023-04-20 was 88–2.
April 20, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored HB 1416 on 2023-01-16 and voted for its final version on 2023-04-06. It barred an insurer that also operated a health-provider network, including Medicaid plans, from excluding an eligible licensed provider within its service area who met the insurer's participation rules. On 2023-04-17, voted to override the governor's veto. The Senate completed the override on 2023-04-19, making the bill law.
April 17, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for SB2129 on 2023-04-17, adding $1 million for a program promoting childbirth instead of abortion through counseling, medical services and material assistance. It served pregnant women and families caring for babies up to twelve months old. The bill became law on 2023-04-28. The House vote on 2023-04-17 was 80–10.
April 17, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-17, voted against SB2071, which directed the state to seek federal approval to raise pregnant women’s Medicaid income limit from 162% to 185% of the federal poverty level. The House rejected it 17–73.
April 17, 2023Opposes Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-17, voted for SB2181 to seek federal approval for expanded pregnancy Medicaid coverage. The proposed expansion set the income ceiling at 175% of the federal poverty level instead of 162%. It included twelve months after pregnancy. The House passed it 87–3, and it became law on 2023-04-28.
April 17, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-11, voted for SB2149, which created a state crisis-hotline program with round-the-clock nonprofit operation, follow-up care and contracts for crisis outreach and stabilization. The House passed it 85–4; the Senate rejected it 1–46.
April 11, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-04, voted for HB1095, which required health insurers to cover pharmacist medication-management services for eligible patients who chose to participate, starting with plans issued or renewed after 2024-12-31. The House passed it 90–0, and it became law on 2023-04-07.
April 4, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-03-23, voted for SB2340, which allowed districts unable to hire enough trained school counselors to use other licensed mental-health professionals to meet counselor requirements. The House rejected it 40–48.
March 23, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-03-21, voted for SB2202, which provided $250,000 in state general funds for domestic-violence forensic medical-examination grants and related administration. The House passed it 93–0, and it became law on 2023-03-27.
March 21, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-20, voted for HB1530, which added Medicaid coverage for parent training in behavioral treatment and certain dental screening, case-management and remote dental services. The dental additions excluded Medicaid expansion. The House passed it 93–0, and it became law on 2023-04-12.
February 20, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1254 on 2023-02-17, banning gender-transition surgeries and puberty blockers or specified hormone treatments for minors, with exceptions for certain sex-development disorders and treatment started before the law. Surgery violations carried felony penalties; drug violations carried misdemeanor penalties. The bill became law on 2023-04-19. The House vote on 2023-02-17 was 66–25.
February 17, 2023Opposes Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1301 on 2023-02-17, banning gender-transition procedures and medication for minors, with exceptions for physical medical conditions and certain continuing treatments. The bill also allowed lawsuits against providers, medical facilities and consenting parents. It failed in the House, 29–62.
February 17, 2023Opposes Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-16, voted against HB1509, which required state-funded pregnancy-counseling organizations to have qualified administrators and counselors, written service policies and patient-record systems. The House rejected it 16–77.
February 16, 2023Opposes Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-16, voted for HB1478, which let hospice patients apply for medical marijuana using hospice records instead of a separate written certification and waived their registration fee. The House passed it 86–6, and it became law on 2023-03-23.
February 16, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against HB1396 on 2023-02-10 to require temporary Medicaid eligibility rules for children under 19 and pregnant applicants while their eligibility was being determined. The House rejected the bill 12–78.
February 10, 2023Opposes Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against HB1518 on 2023-02-07, adding rights for sexual-assault survivors, including evidence preservation, free forensic exams, access to reports and an attorney or counselor during police interviews. The bill failed in the House, 28–66.
February 7, 2023Opposes Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1279 on 2023-02-01, expanding workers’ compensation protections for full-time paid firefighters and police with less than five years’ service. It presumed qualifying heart attacks and similar events within 48 hours of strenuous duty or training were work-related, subject to medical and tobacco-use conditions. The bill became law on 2023-02-06. The House vote on 2023-02-01 was 93–0.
February 1, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-01-20, voted for HB1290, which extended limits on adding nursing-home and basic-care beds through 2025-07-31, with existing exceptions for conversions, transfers and approved basic-care needs. The House passed it 85–5, and it became law on 2023-03-15.
January 20, 2023Opposes Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against HB1027 on 2023-01-06. It required state human service centers to begin becoming certified community behavioral health clinics, providing ongoing mental and physical health services for children and adults. The bill failed in the House, 6–84.
January 6, 2023Opposes Healthcare Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Proposed and voted on 2022-01-04 to approve a three year contract with Agassiz Associates for mental health and addiction treatment at the Walsh County Jail. All five commissioners voted yes.
January 4, 2022Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Environment and Public Health · 22 support · 10 oppose

Voted on 2026-09-03 for HB1628 to license kratom sellers, limit sales to adults 21 and older, require testing and labels, ban extracts and provide $20,000 for public health information. On 2026-09-04, voted against SB2408's broader ban on kratom alkaloids, which failed. Later that day, voted for revised HB1628. It kept regulated pure-leaf sales and added criminal penalties for specified kratom derivatives, including products above its 7-hydroxymitragynine limits. It became law on 2026-09-04.
September 4, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1004, the public-health division budget of the Department of Health and Human Services, on 2023-02-21 and 2023-04-11. Its later House version listed $343,038,673 for 2023–2025, including $44,734,455 from the general fund and $55,120,000 for a public-health laboratory. General-fund funding rose $6,159,300 above the listed base budget. The House passed that version 79–12, and it became law on 2023-04-18. Voted against an earlier SB2012 human-services budget on 2023-04-20. Its main funding table proposed $5,105,090,509 for 2023-07-01 through 2025-06-30, including $1,881,769,143 from the general fund, $326,981,489 above the listed general-fund base budget. The House passed this version 60–32. She was absent from final passage of a later version on 2023-04-29. Voted on 2025-02-25 and 2025-05-01 for HB1012, the health and human services budget for 2025–2027. Its final department appropriation totaled about $5.79 billion, including $2.22 billion from the general fund, for health services, medical assistance, behavioral health, public health, and other department programs. The earlier House bill included $330 million for a new state hospital; the final bill removed that funding. HB1012 became law on 2025-05-16.
May 1, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-02-25 and 2025-04-24 for HB1363, which required public and nonpublic schools to develop cardiac emergency response plans and place and identify defibrillators on school grounds. The final version started school requirements in the 2027–28 school year. It dropped an earlier requirement for a defibrillator at every athletic venue and event, retrievable within three minutes. It provided immunity for carrying out compliant plans and became law on 2025-05-01.
April 24, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1202 on 2023-01-31 and 2023-02-01 to allow state-approved medical-marijuana lozenges with child-resistant packaging, limits on marketing to minors and a 100-milligram package cap. Supported reconsideration on 2023-02-01. Both passage votes failed to reach the required two-thirds majority. Voted on 2025-02-04 and 2025-04-15 for HB1203, which allowed medical-marijuana edibles as square hard or soft lozenges with state approval and child-resistant packaging. The revised bill lowered the proposed THC limits from 10 to 5 milligrams per serving and from 100 to 50 milligrams per package. It prohibited marketing to minors and became law on 2025-04-21. Voted on 2025-03-25 and 2025-04-22 for SB2294, which let qualifying nonresidents apply for 60-day medical-marijuana cards using approved identification and a medical card from the same home state. It extended regular patient cards to two years with a fee capped at $40 and removed the requirement that the medical evaluation be in person. It also allowed regulated square-lozenge edibles with limits of 5 milligrams of THC per serving and 50 per package. The final version raised its proposed edible purchase and possession limits. The bill became law on 2025-04-29.
April 22, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored HB 1541 and SB 2267 on 2025-01-20 to put septic-system rules under the state Department of Environmental Quality. Voted against HB 1541 on 2025-02-24. That version included a ten-year-or-sale limit on requiring replacement of a repairable system and barred requiring replacement of a working system; it failed in the Senate on 2025-04-11. Voted for revised SB 2267 on 2025-04-16. It gave the department sole authority over septic licensing, permits and inspections, and voided conflicting local rules. Installers needed state licenses, with an exception for owners installing their own systems. Local inspections had a one-business-day deadline. It funded the work with $99,500 and allowed civil penalties for violations. It omitted the earlier replacement limits and became law on 2025-04-22.
April 16, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for House Bill 1058, which sets the state's first rules for aboveground fuel tanks. The North Dakota House passed it 66-24, and it became law.
April 7, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: legiscan.com
Voted on 2025-03-21 for SB2293, which limited a medical-marijuana concentrate container to one gram and set a minimum age of 21 in the designated-caregiver definition. It allowed other state-approved identification documents when a patient’s medical condition prevented obtaining current North Dakota identification. The bill became law on 2025-03-27.
March 21, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored HB 1519 on 2025-01-20 and voted for it on 2025-02-20. It required the state health department to link death and vaccination records and publish quarterly summaries of deaths occurring at specified intervals after vaccination. The reports covered vaccine types administered to more than 20,000 people in the previous quarter. The bill restricted redaction unless the department was notified of a privacy issue. The House rejected it on 2025-02-20.
February 20, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-02-19 and 2025-02-20 for HB1457, and for reconsideration between those votes. It proposed vaccine exemptions for employment, education and licensing unless an approved vaccine met specified conditions. These included at least one year of safety follow-up against a qualifying control and published injury rates. The vaccine needed a lower permanent-disability or death risk than the infection, and its manufacturer had to face liability. The House rejected the bill both times.
February 20, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored HCR 3014 on 2025-01-29. On 2025-02-12, moved and voted in committee to recommend its passage. The resolution urged public-health agencies, health systems, and providers to prioritize preventing vitamin D deficiency, and urged the state health officer to post it. Both chambers adopted it, and it was filed on 2025-03-20.
February 12, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2024-08-06 to approve Walsh County's opioid-settlement spending plan. It included the CredibleMind mental-health prevention and self-care platform for county residents, estimated at $2,000–$3,000 annually. The motion passed unanimously.
August 6, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: cms2.revize.com
Voted on 2023-04-10 for SB2248's broader proposal covering direct drug delivery and supplying drugs for consumption that caused a fatal or life-threatening overdose. Voted on 2023-04-26 for its narrower final version, which made willfully supplying another person to deliver drugs that caused such an overdose a class A felony. It included medical and emergency-help exceptions and required fentanyl death reporting and public-awareness work. The House passed the final bill 92–0, and it became law on 2023-04-29. Voted on 2023-10-25 for SB2396 to expand that offense to direct delivery and supplying another person to deliver or consume the drug. The class A penalty remained. SB2396 became law on 2023-10-25.
October 25, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-22, supported HB1447 to create an opioid-settlement fund, allocating 70% for opioid-use services and support, 20% for prevention and 10% for other remediation. On 2023-04-25, supported the revised bill, which removed that fixed split but retained a minimum 20% for prevention. It appropriated $8 million for treatment and prevention in 2023–2025, including fentanyl work. The House passed it 85–8, and it became law on 2023-04-29.
April 25, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the HB1024 environmental-quality budget on 2023-04-25. Its main funding table listed $92,718,910 for 2023–2025, including $15,782,024 from the general fund, $3,120,949 above the listed general-fund base budget. It separately provided $25 million in federal grants for lead-pipe removal and clean-water projects in communities of 10,000 people or fewer. The House passed it 85–8, and it became law on 2023-05-04.
April 25, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-11, voted for SB2149, which created a state crisis-hotline program with round-the-clock nonprofit operation, follow-up care and contracts for crisis outreach and stabilization. The House passed it 85–4; the Senate rejected it 1–46.
April 11, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-10, voted for SB2274, which continued limits on requiring COVID-19 vaccination documents and extended them to vaccines under federal emergency authorization. Health-care, correctional and emergency exceptions remained. The House passed it 87–3, and it became law on 2023-04-18.
April 10, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted against HB1390 on 2023-02-14 and 2023-04-03. It created a commission to review suicide deaths, recommend prevention policies and publish reports without identifying people. The bill also provided $15,000 for the commission and kept its case records and meetings confidential. It became law on 2023-04-11. The House vote on 2023-04-03 was 73–16.
April 3, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted for HB1505 on 2023-02-14 to make requiring vaccination as a condition of exercising a right, performing a duty, or enjoying a privilege a misdemeanor. The House rejected the bill 31–60.
February 14, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted for HB1108 on 2023-02-14, declaring international organizations’ climate regulations unenforceable against North Dakota, whether applied directly or through other laws or regulations. The bill became law on 2023-03-22. The House vote on 2023-02-14 was 80–11.
February 14, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health
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On 2023-02-10, voted for HB1312, which continued online mental-health and suicide-prevention training for school staff through 2027-06-30. The House passed it 83–7, and it became law on 2023-03-27.
February 10, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
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Voted against HB1124 on 2023-02-01 to bar cities and counties from banning or effectively banning natural gas in new construction. The House rejected the bill 14–79.
February 1, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
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Voted for HB1234 on 2023-02-01 to bar cities and counties from blocking utility connections or reconnections based on the fuel source, including electricity, natural gas, and propane. The House passed the bill 93–0, and it became law on 2023-03-15.
February 1, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health
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On 2023-01-24, voted for HB1090, which added wind-turbine blades to the list of materials restricted from municipal waste and landfill disposal. It also defined groundwater for coal-ash regulation. The House passed it 93–0, and it became law on 2023-02-23.
January 24, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
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Voted on 2021-08-03 to adopt the 2021 Walsh County Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan approved by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. She also seconded the proposal. All five commissioners voted yes.
August 3, 2021Supports Environment and Public Health
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Proposed and voted on 2021-05-18 to end the mask requirement in county buildings. All five commissioners voted yes.
May 18, 2021Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted against a resolution on 2021-05-04 encouraging COVID-19 vaccination for all eligible residents. The resolution passed 4–1.
May 4, 2021Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted on 2021-04-06 to approve a county burning ban and on 2021-04-14 to cancel it after rain and snow. On 2021-04-19, she voted to approve a new ban when the fire danger rating was high or worse or a red flag warning was issued. The last proposal passed 3–2. Voted on 2021-10-19 to end the ban; that motion passed unanimously.
April 19, 2021Supports Environment and Public Health
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Voted against extending the Walsh County mask mandate for two months on 2021-01-19; the extension passed 4–1. On 2021-02-02, she voted with all four other commissioners to cancel that extension.
February 2, 2021Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted on 2020-11-17 to let children use the Chris Midgarden Arena for private activities with masks, distancing and a 25% occupancy limit. The motion failed 2–3.
November 17, 2020Supports Environment and Public Health
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Voted on 2020-11-02 against a nonbinding resolution encouraging masks and social distancing. It passed 4–1.
November 2, 2020Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted on 2020-04-07 to close Walsh County's only polling location for the 2020-06-09 primary and conduct the election by mail during the COVID-19 emergency. The resolution passed unanimously.
April 7, 2020Supports Environment and Public Health
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Voted on 2020-03-17 to declare a county health emergency in response to COVID-19. The resolution passed unanimously.
March 17, 2020Supports Environment and Public Health
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Reduce Wealth Gap · 1 support · 1 oppose

Voted on 2025-03-07 against HCR3032, which proposed putting a constitutional minimum-wage proposal on the 2026 general-election ballot. The proposal set a $9.25 hourly minimum and annual cost-of-living increases beginning 2027-01-01, with no decreases. The House rejected the resolution that day, so this proposal did not reach the ballot.
March 7, 2025Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap
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Voted for HB1244 on 2023-04-03 to raise an employer tax credit for hiring qualifying workers with developmental disabilities or severe mental illness. It covered 25% of their first $6,000 in annual wages. The credit was limited to half the taxpayer's tax liability and required vocational rehabilitation certification. The House passed the bill 90–0, and it became law on 2023-04-10.
April 3, 2023Supports Reduce Wealth Gap
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Labor Rights · 28 support · 12 oppose

Voted against HB1121 on 2023-01-13 to make simple assault of a known health-care facility employee or contractor on facility property a class C felony. The House passed it 67–25; after Senate amendments, it failed in the Senate on 2023-03-27, 23–24. On 2025-04-07, supported HB1341's narrower class C felony for assault of a hospital worker providing essential patient care in the course of duties. The House passed it 68–21, and it became law on 2025-04-15.
April 7, 2025Supports Labor Rights
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Voted on 2025-03-07 against HCR3032, which proposed putting a constitutional minimum-wage proposal on the 2026 general-election ballot. The proposal set a $9.25 hourly minimum and annual cost-of-living increases beginning 2027-01-01, with no decreases. The House rejected the resolution that day, so this proposal did not reach the ballot.
March 7, 2025Opposes Labor Rights
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Voted on 2025-02-24 for HB1510, which proposed allowing school districts to provide child care for teachers’ children on school premises and required state rules by 2026-07-01. It also required financial-planning information for new teachers and proposed studying a school-employee health insurance pool. The House passed it, but the Senate rejected it on 2025-04-08.
February 24, 2025Supports Labor Rights
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Voted on 2024-07-16 and 2024-08-20 to pay county workers 10% of unused sick leave when they leave their job, capped at 200 hours. The rule took effect on 2024-08-20. Both motions passed unanimously.
August 20, 2024Supports Labor Rights
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Voted on 2024-08-06 to pay night-shift deputies a $300 monthly retention bonus in 2025. The motion passed unanimously.
August 6, 2024Supports Labor Rights
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Voted on 2022-06-07 against a 4% cost-of-living raise for county employees, starting 2022-07-01. The motion failed 2–3. On 2024-06-04, supported county worker pay steps and a preliminary cost-of-living increase of up to 2% for the 2025 budget. That motion passed unanimously.
June 4, 2024Supports Labor Rights
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Moved and voted on 2023-11-21 to let the sheriff use Back the Blue grant funds for law enforcement hiring and retention bonuses and trainee tuition and fees. The motion passed unanimously.
November 21, 2023Supports Labor Rights
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Voted against the SB2015 state-management budget on 2023-04-21. That version listed $290,735,783 in total funding, including $143,356,829 from the general fund. It included $75 million for market-based employee pay adjustments, average salary increases of 6% and 4% over two years, and a $130 million pool for new and vacant positions. The House passed it 67–24. She was absent from the final budget votes on 2023-04-29. Voted on 2023-10-25 for SB2393's roughly $280.7 million Office of Management and Budget package for the 2023–25 budget period. It included $82.5 million for targeted state employee pay adjustments and $98.2 million for new and vacant staff positions. It provided $20 million for building maintenance. Salary guidelines averaged 6 percent in the first year and 4 percent in the second. It became law on 2023-10-25.
October 25, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2023-10-17 to let county department heads request a doctor's note at any time for sick leave, replacing a rule allowing a request after three days. The motion passed unanimously.
October 17, 2023Opposes Labor Rights
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On 2023-04-21, voted against HB1540’s childcare package. On 2023-04-27, supported the revised package, which marked several grants as one-time funding. It spent $62.6 million from the general fund on childcare assistance and provider programs, plus $3 million for state-employee childcare benefits. It passed the House 63–27 and became law on 2023-04-28.
April 27, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for SB2198 on 2023-04-25 to give state employees up to 26 weeks of leave to care for a seriously injured or ill military relative. It covered spouses, parents or children who were eligible service members or veterans. Pay remained dependent on an agreement or employer policy. The House passed the bill 90–2, and it became law on 2023-04-28.
April 25, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1052 on 2023-01-19 and 2023-04-20. It expanded workers’ compensation preventive treatment for workplace exposure to bloodborne diseases and rabies beyond specified emergency and health workers. It also authorized sharing employer and claim information with government and law enforcement agencies for their official duties. The bill became law on 2023-04-26. The House vote on 2023-04-20 was 88–2.
April 20, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for SB2170 on 2023-04-13 to allow minors age 16 or older to work in hazardous occupations through registered apprenticeships or approved career and technical education programs. A parent's signature was required. The House passed the bill 81–9, and it became law on 2023-04-29.
April 13, 2023Opposes Labor Rights
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the SB2022 retirement and investment office budget on 2023-04-11. It funded $11,979,984 from special funds for 2023-07-01 through 2025-06-30, $3,770,617 above the listed base budget. It allowed bonuses for investment staff when investments managed in the office beat their risk-based benchmarks. The House passed it 86–4, and it became law on 2023-04-21.
April 11, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2023-04-10 for a resolution supporting legislation to keep the county's existing NDPERS retirement plan. The motion passed unanimously.
April 10, 2023Supports Labor Rights
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Voted for the SB2021 workforce safety and insurance budget on 2023-04-10. It funded $72,023,722 from the agency fund for 2023-07-01 through 2025-06-30, $9,900,794 above the listed base budget. The House passed it 90–0, and it became law on 2023-04-20.
April 10, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the SB2007 Department of Labor and Human Rights budget on 2023-04-10. It provided $3,107,546 for 2023–2025, including $2,604,148 from the general fund. General-fund funding rose $357,679 above the listed base budget. The House passed it 87–3, and it became law on 2023-04-18.
April 10, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-03, voted for HB1440 to require insurance for app-based delivery drivers and treat them as independent contractors when specified conditions were met. Companies could not cancel a driver’s contract for refusing one delivery. The bill also barred local taxes, licenses and operating rules for these services. It passed the House 89–0 and became law on 2023-04-11.
April 3, 2023Opposes Labor Rights
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for SB2132 on 2023-03-27 to exempt 14- and 15-year-olds doing listed sports-attendant jobs at professional sporting events from the usual limits on working hours. The House passed the bill 90–1, and it became law on 2023-04-12.
March 27, 2023Opposes Labor Rights
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against SB2301 on 2023-03-17 to create monthly payments to licensed child care providers for worker wages and benefits. Payments ranged from $25 to $50 per child by age, with a 25% bonus for top-rated providers. The House rejected the bill 14–78.
March 17, 2023Opposes Labor Rights
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for SB2214 on 2023-03-16 to exclude contact-sport athletes, including football and hockey players, from the state workers’ compensation employee definition through August 2028. The House passed the bill 93–0, and it became law on 2023-03-22.
March 16, 2023Opposes Labor Rights
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On 2023-02-20, voted for HB1446, which created a four-year tenure-review pilot at Bismarck State College and Dickinson State University. Presidents reviewed faculty duties and ended contracts after failures unless they gave a reason to retain the faculty member. The House passed it 66–27; the Senate rejected it 21–23.
February 20, 2023Opposes Labor Rights
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1450 on 2023-02-14 to clarify that workplace pregnancy accommodations also cover childbirth and related medical conditions. Existing limits for business needs, health and safety, and undue hardship remained. The House passed the bill 91–0, and it became law on 2023-03-15.
February 14, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against HB1507 on 2023-02-03 to set the state minimum wage at $9 an hour starting in August 2023 and add 25 cents each year afterward. The House rejected the bill 13–80.
February 3, 2023Opposes Labor Rights
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against HB1460 on 2023-02-02 to create an optional paid family and medical leave program funded by participating workers and employers. It offered up to 12 weeks at 66% of weekly wages, capped at $1,000 a week, with job protections, a $5 million state startup transfer, and an employer tax credit. The House rejected the bill 16–77.
February 2, 2023Opposes Labor Rights
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Voted for HB1381 on 2023-02-02, classifying covered app-based drivers as independent contractors when companies met specified conditions. Those conditions included freedom to choose hours, work elsewhere, reject individual requests and use gasoline-powered vehicles. The bill became law on 2023-03-30. The House vote on 2023-02-02 was 93–0.
February 2, 2023Opposes Labor Rights
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Voted for HB1279 on 2023-02-01, expanding workers’ compensation protections for full-time paid firefighters and police with less than five years’ service. It presumed qualifying heart attacks and similar events within 48 hours of strenuous duty or training were work-related, subject to medical and tobacco-use conditions. The bill became law on 2023-02-06. The House vote on 2023-02-01 was 93–0.
February 1, 2023Supports Labor Rights
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Voted on 2022-08-02 to add $1 per hour for sheriff's deputies, correctional officers and dispatchers working between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. The motion passed 3–2. Also voted to start the pay increase on 2022-09-01.
August 2, 2022Supports Labor Rights
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Voted on 2022-08-02 for a $3,000 hiring bonus paid in $1,000 installments after each of a new employee's first three years, starting 2022-09-01. The motion passed 4–1.
August 2, 2022Supports Labor Rights
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Voted on 2022-08-02 for a $500 bonus for a county employee who refers someone hired for an open county position, paid after the new hire completes one year. The motion passed 4–1.
August 2, 2022Supports Labor Rights
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Voted on 2022-04-19 to raise correctional officers' pay by 10% and create two corporal positions paid 10% above other officers, effective 2022-05-01. The motion passed 4–1.
April 19, 2022Supports Labor Rights
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Voted on 2022-02-15 for Walsh County to join the Rural Attorney Recruitment Program. Voted on 2023-08-01 for the county to pay the $3,150 annual participation fee for the remaining four years, replacing deductions from the attorney's salary. Both motions passed unanimously.
February 15, 2022Supports Labor Rights
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Voted on 2021-06-01 to approve employee safety rules allowing workers to stop unsafe work and requiring safety equipment for hazardous jobs. The changes also removed a six month service requirement for donated sick leave. All five commissioners voted yes.
June 1, 2021Supports Labor Rights
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Voted on 2020-05-19 to add 14 days of county COVID-19 paid leave, for a total of 28 days for qualifying reasons. Voted on 2021-01-19 to extend an 80-hour COVID-19 leave benefit through 2021-03-31, and voted on 2021-04-06 for another extension. The motions passed.
April 6, 2021Supports Labor Rights
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Voted on 2021-01-19 to raise the highway department pay plan by 12%. All five commissioners voted yes.
January 19, 2021Supports Labor Rights
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Voted on 2020-10-20 to join the public safety pension plan for eligible deputies and correctional officers, splitting the additional 1.19% contribution equally between the county and employees. The motion passed unanimously.
October 20, 2020Supports Labor Rights
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Voted on 2020-08-18 to move county employees to a 90/10 health plan, effective 2021-01-01. The county kept paying all premiums for individual coverage and 75% for coverage with dependents or family. The motion passed 4–1.
August 18, 2020Supports Labor Rights
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Voted on 2020-04-07 to exclude emergency management and law enforcement staff, including correctional officers, from three qualifying categories of federal COVID-19 paid leave, and highway workers from two categories. The motion passed unanimously.
April 7, 2020Opposes Labor Rights
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Moved and voted on 2019-04-16 to approve updated county equal opportunity, harassment, grievance and funeral leave policies. The motion passed unanimously.
April 16, 2019Supports Labor Rights
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Moved on 2019-01-15 to require active shooter training for all county employees. The motion passed.
January 15, 2019Supports Labor Rights
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Anti-Corruption · 9 support · 2 oppose

Voted against SB2024, the ethics commission budget, on 2023-04-11 and 2023-04-24. Its later version funded $1,138,242 from the general fund for 2023-07-01 through 2025-06-30, $514,258 above the listed base budget, and increased staff from one to three full-time positions. The House passed that version 52–39, and it became law on 2023-04-28. Voted on 2025-02-24 against HB1505, which proposed criminal immunity for lawmakers who disclosed a voting conflict and changed ethics complaint rules. The House rejected it. Opposed SB2004's first House version on 2025-04-14, then supported its final ethics commission budget and policy package on 2025-05-02. The final bill provided $1,368,016 from the general fund for 2025–2027. It protected disclosed legislative votes from the specific crime of profiting from official action or information. It narrowed conflicts requiring disclosure, kept complaint records confidential during appeals, and required annual reports. Its broader criminal immunity for disclosed legislative votes was vetoed in Section 5 on 2025-05-19; the governor signed the rest. The earlier 180-day complaint deadline was replaced by a requirement to adopt timing rules.
May 2, 2025Opposes Anti-Corruption
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-02-20 for HB1572, which proposed limiting a park district's bond issue without an election to $15 million or 1% of assessed property value, whichever was lower. The package also required uniform local property tax and financial reporting and changed tax statements. The Senate rejected it on 2025-04-02.
February 20, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption
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Voted on 2023-10-24 for HB1541, which provided $425,000 for the special session and $500,000 for an audit of the state auditor's office and other committee consulting work. It also lowered the transportation fund threshold for legislative budget approval from $15 million to $10 million, with an exception for qualifying matching projects. It became law on 2023-10-25.
October 24, 2023Supports Anti-Corruption
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Voted for the SB2004 state auditor’s budget on 2023-04-27. Its main funding table listed $16,377,824 for 2023–2025, including $10,033,672 from the general fund. General-fund funding rose $914,562 above the listed base budget, and it added four staff positions. The House passed it 91–1, and it became law on 2023-05-08.
April 27, 2023Supports Anti-Corruption
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Voted for HB1463 on 2023-02-10 and to override its veto on 2023-04-10. It removed the general requirement to record each legislator’s vote on amendments during sessions unless legislative rules required it. The Legislature overrode the veto on 2023-04-11. The House vote on 2023-04-10 was 88–0.
April 10, 2023Opposes Anti-Corruption
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-04, voted for HB1257, which required school-board candidates in districts with at least 1,000 students to disclose campaign contributions. The House passed it 88–3, and it became law on 2023-04-06. Also supported the related HB1116 proposal on 2023-01-23, which exempted districts with fewer than 5,000 residents; it failed in the Senate.
April 4, 2023Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored HB 1270 on 2023-01-11 and voted for it on 2023-02-10 and 2023-04-03. The first House version required recordings of regular and special school-board meetings. The final version required a district resident to request a recording at least seven days before the meeting. Recordings then had to be posted on the district's website within seven days and kept there for at least three months. Executive sessions and work sessions were excluded. The governor signed it on 2023-04-10.
April 3, 2023Supports Anti-Corruption
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Voted for SB2232 on 2023-03-20 to exempt descriptions of crime-scene images involving minors and statements about the subject of closed attorney consultations from public records disclosure. It also required meeting notices on public entities’ websites when they had one. The House passed the bill 85–7, and it became law on 2023-03-27.
March 20, 2023Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1485 on 2023-02-21 to require public disclosure of legislators' potential bill-related conflicts. It used legislative disclosure rules instead of the ethics commission's when they were at least as restrictive. It declared the 2023 legislative rules met that standard. The House passed the bill 94–0, and it became law on 2023-04-06.
February 21, 2023Supports Anti-Corruption
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Voted for HB1500 on 2023-02-15 to require certain political spenders to trace and disclose original donors behind funds exceeding $200 and name their top three donors in political ads. It included donor opt-outs and penalties for evading disclosure. The House rejected the bill 42–51.
February 15, 2023Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against HB1198 on 2023-02-08 to require most people requesting copies of public records to give their name, address, and contact information. Crime victims seeking related criminal records were exempt. The House rejected the bill 7–86.
February 8, 2023Supports Anti-Corruption
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Government Efficiency · 30 support · 3 oppose

Voted for SB 2404 on 2026-01-23 to fund $1.5 million in state website and digital-content changes for disability access and $325,000 for the Public Service Commission’s work in federal lawsuits. It also allowed the commission to use existing loan authority if that legal funding was not enough. It became law on 2026-01-23.
January 23, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
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Voted on 2025-10-21 to recommend joining the physician assistant licensing compact. Voted on 2026-01-22 for HB1622 to join the physician assistant licensing compact. It allowed qualified physician assistants licensed in other member states to seek permission to practice in North Dakota, subject to state practice limits, fees and discipline. It became law on 2026-01-23.
January 22, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored HB 1541 and SB 2267 on 2025-01-20 to put septic-system rules under the state Department of Environmental Quality. Voted against HB 1541 on 2025-02-24. That version included a ten-year-or-sale limit on requiring replacement of a repairable system and barred requiring replacement of a working system; it failed in the Senate on 2025-04-11. Voted for revised SB 2267 on 2025-04-16. It gave the department sole authority over septic licensing, permits and inspections, and voided conflicting local rules. Installers needed state licenses, with an exception for owners installing their own systems. Local inspections had a one-business-day deadline. It funded the work with $99,500 and allowed civil penalties for violations. It omitted the earlier replacement limits and became law on 2025-04-22.
April 16, 2025Supports Government Efficiency
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-03-11 for SB2324 to let city and county governing bodies amend certain home-rule charter provisions without another vote. Those provisions had to be already preempted, superseded or invalidated by a law or court order. The resolution had to cite its authority and be published. Adding a new charter power still required the regular voter-approval process. The bill became law on 2025-03-24.
March 11, 2025Supports Government Efficiency
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-03-11 for SB2130, which gave the adjutant general a separate process for choosing design and construction consultants. It allowed direct negotiation with a prequalified firm when the state's share of consulting costs was no more than $250,000. Larger projects required notice to prequalified firms. Ongoing service contracts were limited to five years. It became law on 2025-03-18.
March 11, 2025Supports Government Efficiency
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-02-24 against HB1028, which proposed requiring construction managers on public projects to bid for their own work and award subcontracts to the lowest responsible bidder. Fees accounted for at least 20% of the score used to choose a construction manager. The proposal also added fees to the criteria for choosing design consultants. The House rejected the bill that day.
February 24, 2025Opposes Government Efficiency
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored HB 1357 on 2025-01-13 and voted for it on 2025-02-06. It required school districts to sign student-data sharing agreements with the Department of Public Instruction under state and federal privacy laws. Having an agreement became a condition of school approval, and the department became an authorized representative for the state's education data system. The governor signed it on 2025-03-14.
February 6, 2025Supports Government Efficiency
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Voted on 2025-02-05 for HB1368 to expand the administrative rules committee's grounds for voiding a rule to include lack of necessity or reasonableness. The proposal also changed the process for rule amendments made with agency agreement. The House passed it, but the Senate rejected a later amended version on 2025-04-08.
February 5, 2025Supports Government Efficiency
Source: ndlegis.gov
Moved and voted on 2019-09-03 to combine Walsh, Pembina and Cavalier counties' social service agencies into the Northern Valley Human Service Zone, with Cavalier as the host county. Also voted for Walsh County to pay $14,405.02 in shared administration costs. Both motions passed unanimously. Voted on 2024-11-05 to pay Cavalier County $10,000 for two years of zone costs and $5,000 a year toward zone attorney costs. Both motions passed unanimously.
November 5, 2024Supports Government Efficiency
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Voted on 2024-10-15 to secure a $75,370 grant for an energy audit of county buildings. The motion passed unanimously.
October 15, 2024Supports Government Efficiency
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Voted on 2024-10-01 to delay the delinquent mobile home tax process for people who qualified for the Primary Residence Credit until the state report arrived on 2024-11-05. The motion passed 4–1.
October 1, 2024Supports Government Efficiency
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Voted on 2024-04-16 to combine the county's appointed auditor and treasurer offices. The motion passed unanimously.
April 16, 2024Supports Government Efficiency
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Voted on 2023-12-19 to seek a $5,387.50 grant to put county parcel information online, with a $2,887.50 annual hosting fee. Voted on 2024-02-06 to approve the five-year service contract after the grant was awarded. The motions passed unanimously.
February 6, 2024Supports Government Efficiency
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Voted on 2023-08-01 to adopt the Guardian RFID jail management system to track activities and medication records. The motion passed unanimously.
August 1, 2023Supports Government Efficiency
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Moved on 2023-06-20 for Walsh County to join LoadPass, an online system for oversized and overweight truck permits. The motion passed. The initial fee was $1,500, plus annual membership and a 1.5% fee on permits sold.
June 20, 2023Supports Government Efficiency
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Voted for the HB1021 state technology budget on 2023-04-28. Its main funding table listed $455,998,224 for 2023–2025, including $43,060,845 from the general fund and $148,250,000 for broadband infrastructure. General-fund funding rose $14,084,892 above the listed base budget. The House passed it 76–17, and it became law on 2023-05-05.
April 28, 2023Supports Government Efficiency
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-03-31, voted against SB2343’s rules for communication and information access within the higher-education board. On 2023-04-24, supported a revised version also barring denial of closed or confidential records to board members unless another law prohibited access. It passed the House 71–21 and became law on 2023-04-26.
April 24, 2023Supports Government Efficiency
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against SB2190 on 2023-04-17 to streamline child care assistance applications and waive fees for families at or below 30% of state median income. It allocated $500,000 for outreach and enrollment help. The House rejected the bill 12–78.
April 17, 2023Opposes Government Efficiency
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the SB2002 secretary-of-state and public-printing budget on 2023-04-10. It provided $24,874,199 for 2023–2025, including $7,042,124 from the general fund and $5 million for an election-management system. General-fund funding rose $1,520,572 above the listed base budget. The House passed it 86–4, and it became law on 2023-04-20.
April 10, 2023Supports Government Efficiency
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the SB2011 Securities Department budget on 2023-04-10. It provided $3,258,732 from special funds for 2023–2025, $449,748 above the listed base budget, including $150,000 for technology upgrades. The House passed it 90–0, and it became law on 2023-04-18.
April 10, 2023Supports Government Efficiency
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the HB1016 Job Service budget on 2023-04-06. Its main funding table listed $120,172,899 for 2023–2025, including $6,578,847 from the general fund and $45 million for unemployment-system upgrades. General-fund funding rose $6,168,618 above the listed base budget. The House passed it 77–15, and it became law on 2023-04-12.
April 6, 2023Supports Government Efficiency
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2023-03-21 to create a county administrator position that included the auditor's duties. The motion passed unanimously. On 2023-04-21, while she was absent, the board decided to advertise for an auditor alone.
March 21, 2023Supports Government Efficiency
Source: cms2.revize.com
On 2023-03-09, voted for SB2030, which required Medicaid to join innovative drug-rebate and purchasing programs when feasible and cost-effective for the state. The House passed it 92–0, and it became law on 2023-03-14.
March 9, 2023Supports Government Efficiency
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored HB 1534 on 2023-01-18 and voted for it on 2023-02-16. It treated a licensed, certified, or approved foster home as suitable for adoption and allowed its foster-care assessment to help show that suitability. It kept an adoption investigation, a criminal-background review, and a postplacement evaluation. The House passed it, but the Senate rejected it on 2023-03-30.
February 16, 2023Supports Government Efficiency
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-16, voted for HB1478, which let hospice patients apply for medical marijuana using hospice records instead of a separate written certification and waived their registration fee. The House passed it 86–6, and it became law on 2023-03-23.
February 16, 2023Supports Government Efficiency
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-10, voted against HB1372, which created a licensing route for professionals already licensed outside North Dakota who became state residents, including temporary permits after thirty days without a decision. The House rejected it 0–90.
February 10, 2023Opposes Government Efficiency
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2022-06-07 to buy $119,300 in pickup-towed road-maintenance equipment for summer workers without commercial driver's licenses: an air compressor, pothole-repair mastic mixer and crack sealer. The proposal's stated purpose was to keep licensed truck drivers on other projects. Half the cost came from highway funds and half from COVID relief funds. The motion passed unanimously.
June 7, 2022Supports Government Efficiency
Source: cms2.revize.com
Voted on 2022-02-15 for Walsh County to join the Rural Attorney Recruitment Program. Voted on 2023-08-01 for the county to pay the $3,150 annual participation fee for the remaining four years, replacing deductions from the attorney's salary. Both motions passed unanimously.
February 15, 2022Supports Government Efficiency
Source: cms2.revize.com
Voted on 2021-01-19 and 2021-02-16 to approve new county tax and financial software from Tyler Technologies. On 2021-05-18, she voted to use federal CARES funds for the down payment. All three proposals passed unanimously.
February 16, 2021Supports Government Efficiency
Source: cms2.revize.com
Voted on 2020-07-21 to offer Grafton continued use of the county law enforcement center and dispatch service for $150,000 in 2021. The offer rose by $2,500 annually to $160,000 over five years. The motion passed unanimously. The city rejected the offer, as reported on 2020-08-04.
July 21, 2020Supports Government Efficiency
Source: cms2.revize.com
Voted on 2020-07-07 to sign a one-year court service contract with Park River after the city lost its municipal judge. The contract assigned 60% of money collected to the state and 40% to the county. The motion passed unanimously.
July 7, 2020Supports Government Efficiency
Source: cms2.revize.com
Voted on 2020-03-17 to close county buildings to the public for 30 days because of COVID-19, and voted for further closures on 2020-04-20 and 2020-05-05. Voted against another extension on 2020-05-19; it passed 4–1. Voted on 2020-06-02 to reopen the buildings on 2020-06-15.
May 19, 2020Supports Government Efficiency
Source: cms2.revize.com
Voted on 2020-04-20 to sign a grant agreement covering half the cost of energy improvements to county building lights. The county's share was estimated at $19,609. The motion passed unanimously.
April 20, 2020Supports Government Efficiency
Source: cms2.revize.com

Immigration · 2 support · 5 oppose

Voted against HB1600 on 2025-02-24 and 2025-04-21 to establish an immigration law clinic at the University of North Dakota school of law. It required one full-time attorney, limited the attorney to 60 open matters, allowed remote services and nominal fees, and provided $400,000. The February version used the general fund. The April version used one-time strategic investment funds and required a report to the next legislature. The House passed the final version 64–29, and it became law.
April 21, 2025Opposes Immigration
Source: legiscan.com
Voted on 2025-02-18 against HB1493, which proposed repealing the law establishing the Office of Legal Immigration. The House rejected the bill that day.
February 18, 2025Supports Immigration
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for House Bill 1585, a bill to make police report people they believed were in the country illegally to federal agents. The North Dakota House rejected it 41-50, so it did not become law.
February 7, 2025Opposes Immigration
Source: legiscan.com
Voted on 2023-10-24 for HB1544 to provide $500,000 in workforce grants for a tribal college in the Turtle Mountain area and $2 million for the Office of Legal Immigration. It also required a Clean Sustainable Energy Authority recommendation before development-fund financing of qualifying energy projects. On 2023-10-25, the governor signed the funding provisions and vetoed that recommendation requirement.
October 24, 2023Supports Immigration
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-06, voted against SB2142, which created an Office of Legal Immigration to help businesses recruit workers and help immigrants settle in North Dakota. It provided $485,000 in state general funds for two staff positions. The House passed it 64–28, and it became law on 2023-04-21.
April 6, 2023Opposes Immigration
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored HB 1493 on 2023-01-18 and voted for it on 2023-02-10. It proposed denying driver's licenses to people who lacked proof of lawful presence in the United States and added lawful-presence requirements for state identification cards. It also changed temporary-license eligibility by removing a pending asylum application and requiring a completed asylum grant. The House passed the bill, but the Senate rejected it on 2023-03-31.
February 10, 2023Opposes Immigration
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1155 on 2023-01-16. It barred state and local governments and public colleges from limiting cooperation with federal officials about immigration status or granting lawful status to people unlawfully present. Conflicting policies became void. The bill became law on 2023-04-07. The House vote on 2023-01-16 was 80–11.
January 16, 2023Opposes Immigration
Source: ndlegis.gov

Government Spending Reduction · 31 support · 139 oppose

Voted against SB 2407 on 2026-09-04 to change military-museum financing. It removed a required donation pledge before access to $15 million in state funds. It kept a $20 million Bank of North Dakota credit line, available after the state funds were spent. It required repayment from donations and later review if donations fell short. It became law on 2026-09-04.
September 4, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2026-09-03 for HB1628 to license kratom sellers, limit sales to adults 21 and older, require testing and labels, ban extracts and provide $20,000 for public health information. On 2026-09-04, voted against SB2408's broader ban on kratom alkaloids, which failed. Later that day, voted for revised HB1628. It kept regulated pure-leaf sales and added criminal penalties for specified kratom derivatives, including products above its 7-hydroxymitragynine limits. It became law on 2026-09-04.
September 4, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2026-09-02 to allow introduction of a proposal for $9 million in one-time child-care assistance. The proposed grants targeted eligible families earning less than thirty percent of state median income, households facing homelessness, and families in the child-welfare system. The introduction motion failed, so the proposal did not advance.
September 2, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for SB 2404 on 2026-01-23 to fund $1.5 million in state website and digital-content changes for disability access and $325,000 for the Public Service Commission’s work in federal lawsuits. It also allowed the commission to use existing loan authority if that legal funding was not enough. It became law on 2026-01-23.
January 23, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2026-01-23 for SB2403 to put $5 million into emergency operating loans for nonprofit hospitals in cities with fewer than 2,500 people. Each loan could be up to $5 million, at no more than 2 percent interest, with a term of up to 11 years. It became law on 2026-01-23.
January 23, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-10-21 to support the state's rural health grant application plan, then on 2026-01-14 to recommend a $397,873,940 federal appropriation draft. Voted on 2026-01-22 for HB1623 to authorize about $397.9 million in federal rural health grants through 2027-06-30. It also provided $600,000 to run a loan program and allowed up to $40 million in Bank of North Dakota profits for short-term loans to approved grant recipients. It became law on 2026-01-23.
January 22, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against HB 1627 on 2026-01-22, which proposed $7 million for free meals in public or nonpublic schools. Eligible students' household income could be no more than three times the federal poverty level. It failed in the House.
January 22, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB 1625 on 2026-01-22 to change the use of University of North Dakota golf-course sale proceeds. It allowed course improvements and support for the men's and women's golf teams. It also authorized $4 million for course improvements from property sales, donations, and local funds. It became law on 2026-01-23.
January 22, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for an earlier HB1014 industrial commission and state-enterprise budget on 2023-02-22. Its main funding table proposed $446,868,352 for 2023-07-01 through 2025-06-30, including $41,247,922 from the general fund, $14,758,309 above the listed general-fund base budget. It separately proposed $12,500,000 for the housing incentive fund. The House passed this version 84–9. She was absent from final passage of a later version on 2023-04-29. Voted on 2025-04-24 against an earlier SB2014 budget for the Industrial Commission and related agencies. Voted on 2025-05-02 for the final package, which provided about $449.3 million, including $44.7 million from the general fund, for 2025–2027. It covered the Bank of North Dakota, housing programs, mineral resources, the state mill, and other commission work. The governor signed SB2014 on 2025-05-19 and vetoed a $150,000 Native American homelessness liaison grant and a study of western communities' economies as oil and gas activity declined.
May 2, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for an earlier HB1018 commerce budget on 2023-02-21. Its main funding table proposed $247,834,966 for 2023-07-01 through 2025-06-30, including $76,285,497 from the general fund, $44,783,357 above the listed general-fund base budget. It separately proposed $120,000,000 for fertilizer-development grants. The House passed this version 79–15. She was absent from final passage of a later version on 2023-04-29. Voted on 2025-04-23 against separate SB2018 amendments proposing $50 million for the Theodore Roosevelt presidential library endowment and a $75 million Development Fund credit line. The library proposal required private matching funds and free admission for children. Also opposed Turtle Mountain tribal gaming on specified Grand Forks County land, subject to federal approval and an infrastructure study. The gaming amendment failed; the other two passed. Voted against the remaining amendments and their combined adoption. On 2025-04-24, opposed all three allowed divisions and the whole House commerce budget. One division proposed a $30 million Development Fund transfer and $75 million credit line. On 2025-05-02, opposed the final package: about $161.1 million, including $42.6 million from the general fund, for commerce and related programs. It reduced the transfer and credit line to $25 million each and omitted the $50 million library transfer. The governor signed SB2018 on 2025-05-19 and vetoed its $350,000 state fair sanitation appropriation.
May 2, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against SB2024, the ethics commission budget, on 2023-04-11 and 2023-04-24. Its later version funded $1,138,242 from the general fund for 2023-07-01 through 2025-06-30, $514,258 above the listed base budget, and increased staff from one to three full-time positions. The House passed that version 52–39, and it became law on 2023-04-28. Voted on 2025-02-24 against HB1505, which proposed criminal immunity for lawmakers who disclosed a voting conflict and changed ethics complaint rules. The House rejected it. Opposed SB2004's first House version on 2025-04-14, then supported its final ethics commission budget and policy package on 2025-05-02. The final bill provided $1,368,016 from the general fund for 2025–2027. It protected disclosed legislative votes from the specific crime of profiting from official action or information. It narrowed conflicts requiring disclosure, kept complaint records confidential during appeals, and required annual reports. Its broader criminal immunity for disclosed legislative votes was vetoed in Section 5 on 2025-05-19; the governor signed the rest. The earlier 180-day complaint deadline was replaced by a requirement to adopt timing rules.
May 2, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1158 on 2023-02-21 and 2023-04-26. Its final version set state income tax rates at 0%, 1.95% and 2.5%, created a $500 primary-home property tax credit for 2024 and 2025, expanded relief for older or disabled homeowners, and provided $158,225,000 for property tax relief and administration. It became law on 2023-04-27. Voted on 2025-02-11 for SB2201 to clarify credit eligibility for life estates, qualifying trusts and contracts for deed, including certain care-facility absences; it became law on 2025-02-18. Voted on 2025-02-25 for HB1266 to raise the taxable home value covered by the disabled veterans' credit from $8,100 to $9,000 and change credit calculations for co-owners outside the immediate family; the Senate rejected it on 2025-04-15. On 2025-02-25, supported HB1168: a main school property tax levy limit of 50 mills instead of 70, a separate 10-mill levy and 3% growth limits for other local levies, with exceptions. Also supported HB1176's proposed $1,450 primary residence credit. On 2025-05-02, voted against a replacement HB1168 that proposed a $1,000 credit and $295 million for it; the House rejected that bill. Voted on 2025-05-02 for final HB1176. It raised the primary residence credit to $1,600, provided $408.9 million from the Legacy property tax relief fund, raised the maximum qualifying renter refund from $400 to $600, and retained the $9,000 veterans' credit and co-ownership changes. It limited growth in local levy dollars to 3%, with exceptions for new property and certain levies, five years of unused increases, and voter approval for larger levies. It increased the Legacy Fund distribution from 7% to 8% of its five-year average value and split money remaining after debt service 30% for highways and 70% for property tax relief. Earlier proposed $10,000 increases in homestead credit income limits were removed. HB1176 became law on 2025-05-03.
May 2, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1004, the public-health division budget of the Department of Health and Human Services, on 2023-02-21 and 2023-04-11. Its later House version listed $343,038,673 for 2023–2025, including $44,734,455 from the general fund and $55,120,000 for a public-health laboratory. General-fund funding rose $6,159,300 above the listed base budget. The House passed that version 79–12, and it became law on 2023-04-18. Voted against an earlier SB2012 human-services budget on 2023-04-20. Its main funding table proposed $5,105,090,509 for 2023-07-01 through 2025-06-30, including $1,881,769,143 from the general fund, $326,981,489 above the listed general-fund base budget. The House passed this version 60–32. She was absent from final passage of a later version on 2023-04-29. Voted on 2025-02-25 and 2025-05-01 for HB1012, the health and human services budget for 2025–2027. Its final department appropriation totaled about $5.79 billion, including $2.22 billion from the general fund, for health services, medical assistance, behavioral health, public health, and other department programs. The earlier House bill included $330 million for a new state hospital; the final bill removed that funding. HB1012 became law on 2025-05-16.
May 1, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-02-13 and 2025-02-25 for HB 1540 to fund education savings accounts for students outside public schools and the regular home-education program. The earlier versions proposed $40 million. She voted against the revised $21.7 million bill on 2025-04-21 and against reconsidering that passage on 2025-04-22. The revision tied payments to income: 35%, 20%, or 10% of the state per-student amount. The governor vetoed it on 2025-04-23. She voted to override the veto on 2025-04-25, but the override failed 45–48, so it did not become law.
April 25, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against SB 2400 on 2025-04-24. It proposed education savings accounts beginning with the 2026–27 school year for public, private, and participating home-education students. Public-school students qualified for $1,000; participating private-school students qualified for $1,000 to $3,500 based on income. It included misuse penalties, state testing rules for participating private schools, and $6 million for administration and legal defense. The House rejected it 14–78, so it did not become law.
April 24, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against SB 2213 on 2025-04-10 to set mathematics-teaching, curriculum, training, assessment, and student-support rules with $1.2 million in state funding. On 2025-04-24, voted for the revised bill, which kept those rules, raised funding to $1.5 million, and added a screening pilot for grades four through eight. It also set a 2027-07-01 start for elementary-teacher competency and early-grade screening requirements. It became law on 2025-05-01.
April 24, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legiscan.com
Co-sponsored HB 1332 on 2025-01-13 and voted for it on 2025-02-25 and 2025-04-21. It created an agricultural-processing facility incentive program with up to $30 million in grants and access to a $30 million state-bank credit line. Eligible new facilities needed at least $350 million in investment, local agricultural-producer investment, and a competing offer from another Midwestern state. Grant payments were tied to completion and production milestones. The governor signed it on 2025-04-28. Submitted testimony in favor of HB1332 on 2025-01-24.
April 21, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored HB 1612 on 2025-01-20 and voted for it on 2025-02-21 and 2025-04-21. It directed the University of North Dakota to establish an aerospace medicine center providing mental-health support and help with aviation medical certification. The first House version provided $500,000 from the general fund. The final bill provided $250,000 from the community health trust fund and $250,000 from federal or other sources. The governor signed it on 2025-04-28.
April 21, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against HB1600 on 2025-02-24 and 2025-04-21 to establish an immigration law clinic at the University of North Dakota school of law. It required one full-time attorney, limited the attorney to 60 open matters, allowed remote services and nominal fees, and provided $400,000. The February version used the general fund. The April version used one-time strategic investment funds and required a report to the next legislature. The House passed the final version 64–29, and it became law.
April 21, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: legiscan.com
Co-sponsored HB 1541 and SB 2267 on 2025-01-20 to put septic-system rules under the state Department of Environmental Quality. Voted against HB 1541 on 2025-02-24. That version included a ten-year-or-sale limit on requiring replacement of a repairable system and barred requiring replacement of a working system; it failed in the Senate on 2025-04-11. Voted for revised SB 2267 on 2025-04-16. It gave the department sole authority over septic licensing, permits and inspections, and voided conflicting local rules. Installers needed state licenses, with an exception for owners installing their own systems. Local inspections had a one-business-day deadline. It funded the work with $99,500 and allowed civil penalties for violations. It omitted the earlier replacement limits and became law on 2025-04-22.
April 16, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-04-10 for SB2230, which provided $600,000 from the general fund for objective ballot-measure summaries and fiscal information. The secretary of state had to distribute materials to active voters at least 45 days before statewide elections and post them at voting locations. The requirements expired after 2027-06-30. The bill became law on 2025-04-22.
April 10, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-02-24 and 2025-04-09 for HB 1511 to fund and require review of state abortion-law instruction. The first version required abortion providers to review it within one year and obstetrics physicians to complete a course for licensing. The final version required abortion providers to review it within two years, except in medical emergencies, and required the medical board to post the course online. It provided $50,000 to develop the course, with attorney general approval. It became law on 2025-04-16, with the course-review rules specified to begin on 2026-01-01.
April 9, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Moved on 2025-02-03 to reconsider HB1358, which had failed on 2025-01-31. That bill proposed state-funded public charter schools, with up to twelve schools in 2025–27 and fifteen in 2027–29, an initial three-year agreement, and no local tax funding or tuition. Her reconsideration motion failed; she had been absent from the earlier passage vote. Voted on 2025-04-08 for SB2241's revised public charter school plan, with agreements approved by the state superintendent and an initial five-year term. It funded schools using the previous year's statewide average per-student aid, required licensed teachers and regular financial audits, and barred tuition and religious practices. Schools had to teach in person and use fair enrollment rules, with a lottery when applications exceeded space. SB2241 became law on 2025-04-21.
April 8, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-02-25 for HB1575's proposed state-funded reductions in taxable value for residential, agricultural and commercial property. It capped annual growth in a property's taxable value at 3%, excluding new improvements. It replaced the primary residence credit and provided $483.4 million for the reductions. Funding included $85,001,793 from the general fund and the rest from Legacy Fund earnings. The Senate rejected the bill on 2025-05-02.
February 25, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored HB 1213 on 2025-01-10 and voted for it on 2025-02-11 and 2025-02-25. The House version transferred $50 million from the state's strategic investment fund to a loan fund for local correctional facilities. On 2025-03-17, testified for the bill before Senate Appropriations. The Senate later reduced the transfer to $20 million and removed the correctional-facility restriction, then rejected that version on 2025-03-27. The bill did not become law.
February 25, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored HB 1275 on 2025-01-13 and voted for it on 2025-02-24. It proposed $5 million from the state's strategic investment fund for natural-gas distribution projects in cities of no more than 10,000 residents. Applicants had to provide at least a 50-percent match, with preference for higher matching funds. The House rejected it on 2025-02-24.
February 24, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against HB1553 on 2025-02-11. It proposed free breakfast and lunch for all students at participating public and nonpublic schools, replaced the existing school-meal policy section, and provided $140 million from Legacy Fund earnings for 2025–2027 meal grants. The House rejected it 14–75. Voted for HB1475 on 2025-02-24 to reimburse participating public, private and tribal schools for free breakfast and lunch for all students, with $140 million from the general fund. It also failed in the House. On 2026-01-22, voted against HB1624. That bill required public schools to offer free meals on request, allowed other schools to participate and provided $65 million from the strategic investment and improvements fund. The House passed it; the Senate rejected it on 2026-01-23.
February 24, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: legiscan.com
Voted on 2025-02-20 for HB1572, which proposed limiting a park district's bond issue without an election to $15 million or 1% of assessed property value, whichever was lower. The package also required uniform local property tax and financial reporting and changed tax statements. The Senate rejected it on 2025-04-02.
February 20, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Chief-sponsored HB 1337 on 2025-01-13 and voted for it on 2025-02-19. It proposed $10 million for mental-health and substance-use treatment for people in jail or prison. The final House proposal allowed grants to counties and contracts with private providers, with reports on services and results. The House rejected the bill on 2025-02-19.
February 19, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-02-18 for HB1067, which extended in-home Medicaid waivers for children with extraordinary medical needs or autism to people under 21 who otherwise met institutional care requirements. It also required Social Security survivor income and court-ordered child support to be disregarded for children under 18 enrolled in specified Medicaid waivers, beginning 2026-07-01. The bill became law on 2025-03-19.
February 18, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-02-12 against HB1100, which proposed carrying unused money from an earlier $6 million free-school-meal appropriation into 2025–27 to repay schools for delinquent meal debt incurred during 2023–25. Grants were limited to each school district’s share of statewide debt and its actual debt. The House rejected the bill that day.
February 12, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored HB 1548 on 2025-01-20 and voted for it on 2025-02-06. It proposed $10 million from the state's strategic investment fund for a fitness center benefiting residents of the Life Skills and Transition Center. The House rejected it on 2025-02-06.
February 6, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored HB 1523 on 2025-01-20 and voted for it on 2025-02-05. It proposed a $500,000 state grant for ski-resort repairs, deferred maintenance, and equipment, with a dollar-for-dollar match from nonstate funds. The House rejected it on 2025-02-05.
February 5, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2024-11-19 to provide $50,000 for the Walsh County Childcare Center. She also seconded the proposal, which failed 2–3.
November 19, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: cms2.revize.com
Moved and voted on 2019-09-03 to combine Walsh, Pembina and Cavalier counties' social service agencies into the Northern Valley Human Service Zone, with Cavalier as the host county. Also voted for Walsh County to pay $14,405.02 in shared administration costs. Both motions passed unanimously. Voted on 2024-11-05 to pay Cavalier County $10,000 for two years of zone costs and $5,000 a year toward zone attorney costs. Both motions passed unanimously.
November 5, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: cms2.revize.com
Voted on 2024-10-15 to secure a $75,370 grant for an energy audit of county buildings. The motion passed unanimously.
October 15, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: cms2.revize.com
Voted on 2019-10-01, 2020-10-06, 2021-08-03, 2021-10-06, 2022-10-10, 2023-10-03 and 2024-10-01 to approve Walsh County's annual budgets. The 2020 budget included $110,000 for the county library without increasing tax mills; the Park River and Forest River joint water district levies fell to zero. The 2021 property-tax levy was 123.25 mills. The 2022 property-tax levy fell 8.25 mills to 115. Its general-fund levy fell from 60 to 55 mills, county-agent levy from 2.5 to 0.5, and Job Development Authority levy from 2.25 to one. The 2023 levy was 123.70 mills, including 59.70 for the general fund and four for the Job Development Authority. The 2024 levy rose 6.99 mills and created a ten-mill capital fund for courthouse heating and cooling or a jail project. On 2024-10-01, approved the 2025 budget with $13,938,343.70 in general and special revenue funds. Also reserved the $670,000 capital levy for courthouse heating and cooling or a jail project. On 2024-11-19, supported using remaining federal ARPA funds for county salaries and moving the same general-fund amount to the heating, ventilation and jail project fund. All these motions passed unanimously.
October 1, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: cms2.revize.com
Voted on 2024-09-03 to put an additional ten-mill levy for county roads and bridges on the 2024-11-05 ballot. The motion passed unanimously.
September 3, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: cms2.revize.com
Voted on 2024-07-16 and 2024-08-20 to pay county workers 10% of unused sick leave when they leave their job, capped at 200 hours. The rule took effect on 2024-08-20. Both motions passed unanimously.
August 20, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted on 2024-05-07 for engineering work to replace the bridge on County Road 9 at Drain 48. Voted on 2024-08-20 to accept Gladen Construction's low bid and a $52,800 construction engineering contract. The motions passed unanimously.
August 20, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted on 2024-08-06 to approve Walsh County's opioid-settlement spending plan. It included the CredibleMind mental-health prevention and self-care platform for county residents, estimated at $2,000–$3,000 annually. The motion passed unanimously.
August 6, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted on 2024-08-06 to pay night-shift deputies a $300 monthly retention bonus in 2025. The motion passed unanimously.
August 6, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted on 2022-06-07 against a 4% cost-of-living raise for county employees, starting 2022-07-01. The motion failed 2–3. On 2024-06-04, supported county worker pay steps and a preliminary cost-of-living increase of up to 2% for the 2025 budget. That motion passed unanimously.
June 4, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted on 2022-10-05 for a county jail building plan and on 2023-02-07 for a $38,450 jail needs study using federal ARPA funds. Voted on 2024-02-06 for a $15,000 first phase of planning work and on 2024-04-16 for about $25,000 in public outreach work. The motions passed unanimously.
April 16, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted on 2023-09-05 against buying two John Deere motor graders for $730,000; the motion passed 3–2. Voted on 2024-04-02 to finance the two graders over five years at 5% interest, with annual payments of $133,055. That motion passed unanimously.
April 2, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted on 2024-04-02 to accept Morris Sealcoat's $305,710.19 bid to chip seal County Road 14 near Lankin. The motion passed unanimously.
April 2, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Moved and voted on 2023-11-21 to let the sheriff use Back the Blue grant funds for law enforcement hiring and retention bonuses and trainee tuition and fees. The motion passed unanimously.
November 21, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted against the SB2015 state-management budget on 2023-04-21. That version listed $290,735,783 in total funding, including $143,356,829 from the general fund. It included $75 million for market-based employee pay adjustments, average salary increases of 6% and 4% over two years, and a $130 million pool for new and vacant positions. The House passed it 67–24. She was absent from the final budget votes on 2023-04-29. Voted on 2023-10-25 for SB2393's roughly $280.7 million Office of Management and Budget package for the 2023–25 budget period. It included $82.5 million for targeted state employee pay adjustments and $98.2 million for new and vacant staff positions. It provided $20 million for building maintenance. Salary guidelines averaged 6 percent in the first year and 4 percent in the second. It became law on 2023-10-25.
October 25, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2023-10-25 for SB2394 to provide $106,000 in additional snow-removal grants for qualifying tribal and local governments that had applied but received no 2021–23 grant. The bill also provided $6,500 for governor's office wages. It became law on 2023-10-25.
October 25, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2023-10-25 for SB2397 to make county approval of a joint water-board tax levy optional rather than required. The bill also replaced a $100 million transfer of Bank of North Dakota profits with a bank line of credit for local water-project loans. It became law on 2023-10-25.
October 25, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2023-10-25 for SB2398 to provide $3 million more in school funding and slow the reduction of transition funding for qualifying districts. It also raised the school construction loan limit from $2 million to $5 million and temporarily allowed loans for unexpected construction inflation. It became law on 2023-10-25.
October 25, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2023-10-24 for HB1544 to provide $500,000 in workforce grants for a tribal college in the Turtle Mountain area and $2 million for the Office of Legal Immigration. It also required a Clean Sustainable Energy Authority recommendation before development-fund financing of qualifying energy projects. On 2023-10-25, the governor signed the funding provisions and vetoed that recommendation requirement.
October 24, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2023-10-24 for HB1545 to let park districts use infrastructure revolving loans through 2025-06-30 to refinance loans and pay related special assessments for projects completed after 2022-03-31. It became law on 2023-10-25.
October 24, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2023-10-24 for HB1541, which provided $425,000 for the special session and $500,000 for an audit of the state auditor's office and other committee consulting work. It also lowered the transportation fund threshold for legislative budget approval from $15 million to $10 million, with an exception for qualifying matching projects. It became law on 2023-10-25.
October 24, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2023-10-24 for HB1543 to provide $8.25 million for a Badlands-region behavioral health facility, with a matching-funds requirement and an alternative community-clinic use if no recipient was secured. It provided $26.5 million for rising career-center construction costs and $8.5 million more for Bismarck State College's academic and athletic center. It allowed up to $40 million in revenue bonds for that college project. It became law on 2023-10-25.
October 24, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the HB1040 public-employee retirement overhaul on 2023-04-25 after supporting an earlier version on 2023-02-22. It scheduled the main pension plan to close to eligible new hires on 2025-01-01 and placed them in individual retirement accounts, while keeping existing members in the pension plan. It added employer matching for optional employee contributions and transferred $135 million to reduce the old plan’s unpaid obligations. The House passed the final version 76–17, and it became law on 2023-04-29. Voted on 2023-10-24 for HB1548 to allow an earlier transition from the main public employee pension plan to the new defined contribution plan. The retirement board had to certify that it was ready to close the old plan to new enrollment and open the new one on a date before 2025-01-01. It became law on 2023-10-25.
October 24, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2023-10-24 for HB1546 to create a fertilizer loan-forgiveness program capped at $125 million. Eligible plants had to be in North Dakota, use hydrogen made by water electrolysis and have a United States or Canadian owner with a Bank of North Dakota program loan. The bill established a process for the authority to seek funding to repay the loan after construction. It became law on 2023-10-25.
October 24, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2023-07-18 to spend $500,000 paving three miles of County Road 12 north of Park River. The motion passed unanimously.
July 18, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted for the HB1021 state technology budget on 2023-04-28. Its main funding table listed $455,998,224 for 2023–2025, including $43,060,845 from the general fund and $148,250,000 for broadband infrastructure. General-fund funding rose $14,084,892 above the listed base budget. The House passed it 76–17, and it became law on 2023-05-05.
April 28, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the revised HB1019 career and technical education budget on 2023-04-28, after voting against an earlier conference proposal on 2023-04-25. The final main funding table listed $66,181,828 for 2023-07-01 through 2025-06-30, including $51,200,708 from the general fund, $9,465,645 above the listed general-fund base budget. The House passed it 88–3, and it became law on 2023-05-06.
April 28, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the SB2013 public-school, library and specialized-school budget on 2023-04-28. Its main funding table listed $2,880,325,887 for 2023-07-01 through 2025-06-30, including $1,742,394,946 from the general fund, $66,197,917 above the listed general-fund base budget. The House passed it 73–17, and it became law on 2023-05-08.
April 28, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the SB2020 water resources budget on 2023-04-28. Its main budget table set aside $862,357,267 from special funds through June 2025, an increase of $453,158,138 from the base budget. The House passed the bill 88–4, and it became law on 2023-05-08.
April 28, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against the revised SB2019 parks budget on 2023-04-28. She had supported an earlier version on 2023-04-20. Its main table provided $137,581,595 for July 2023 through June 2025, including $14,264,880 from the general fund. General-fund spending rose $941,389 above the base budget. The House passed the revised bill 63–27, and it became law on 2023-05-04.
April 28, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the SB2009 agriculture commissioner budget on 2023-04-28. Its main funding table listed $53,486,691 for 2023-07-01 through 2025-06-30, including $22,519,573 from the general fund, $9,059,861 above the listed general-fund base budget. The House passed it 81–10, and it became law on 2023-05-05.
April 28, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-17, supported HB1491’s $6 million free-meal program for public-school students at or below 200% of the federal poverty level. The House passed it 80–11; the Senate rejected it 23–24. On 2023-04-20, supported the same $6 million meal-program amendment and voted for that version of SB2284, which proposed a $40 million school construction loan-fund transfer. On 2023-04-28, supported the revised SB2284. It included nonpublic schools in the meal program, required a $75 million loan-fund transfer and raised school construction loan limits. The House passed it 77–15, and it became law on 2023-05-08.
April 28, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-21, voted against HB1540’s childcare package. On 2023-04-27, supported the revised package, which marked several grants as one-time funding. It spent $62.6 million from the general fund on childcare assistance and provider programs, plus $3 million for state-employee childcare benefits. It passed the House 63–27 and became law on 2023-04-28.
April 27, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the SB2003 attorney general budget on 2023-04-27. Its main funding table listed $98,974,017 for 2023-07-01 through 2025-06-30, including $51,627,910 from the general fund, $8,981,192 above the listed general-fund base budget. The House passed it 87–4, and it became law on 2023-05-08.
April 27, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the final HB1015 corrections budget on 2023-04-27, after voting against its conference proposal that day. On 2023-02-21, she first voted for the budget and then against it after further amendments. The final main funding table listed $445,785,087 for 2023-07-01 through 2025-06-30, including $255,467,963 from the general fund, $37,608,154 above the listed general-fund base budget. It included $131,200,000 for a new Heart River correctional facility. The House passed it 73–18, and it became law on 2023-05-05.
April 27, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the SB2004 state auditor’s budget on 2023-04-27. Its main funding table listed $16,377,824 for 2023–2025, including $10,033,672 from the general fund. General-fund funding rose $914,562 above the listed base budget, and it added four staff positions. The House passed it 91–1, and it became law on 2023-05-08.
April 27, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the SB2018 historical society budget on 2023-04-26. Its main table provided $49,378,093 for July 2023 through June 2025, including $22,038,910 from the general fund. General-fund spending rose $2,652,560 above the base budget. The House passed the bill 70–22, and it became law on 2023-05-05.
April 26, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the SB2016 National Guard and emergency services budget on 2023-04-26. Its main table provided $365,489,721 for July 2023 through June 2025, including $26,285,648 from the general fund. General-fund spending rose $3,403,416 above the base budget. The House passed the bill 90–2, and it became law on 2023-05-08.
April 26, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the HB1012 transportation budget on 2023-04-26. Its main funding table listed $2,306,094,393 for 2023-07-01 through 2025-06-30, including $10,375,000 from the general fund, compared with no general-fund money in the listed base budget. The table included $78,500,000 in loans tied to receiving matching funds. The House passed it 91–1, and it became law on 2023-05-08.
April 26, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the HB1003 university-system budget on 2023-04-26. Its main funding table listed $3,285,017,273 through 2025-06-30, including $849,243,766 from the general fund, $162,915,240 above the listed general-fund base budget. The House passed it 69–23, and it became law on 2023-05-08.
April 26, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the SB2010 Insurance Department budget on 2023-04-26. Its main funding table listed $15,853,379 from special funds for 2023–2025, $6,269,739 above the listed base budget, and added nine staff positions. The House passed it 82–9, and it became law on 2023-05-05.
April 26, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-22, supported HB1447 to create an opioid-settlement fund, allocating 70% for opioid-use services and support, 20% for prevention and 10% for other remediation. On 2023-04-25, supported the revised bill, which removed that fixed split but retained a minimum 20% for prevention. It appropriated $8 million for treatment and prevention in 2023–2025, including fentanyl work. The House passed it 85–8, and it became law on 2023-04-29.
April 25, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the HB1025 Department of Veterans’ Affairs budget on 2023-04-25. Its main funding table provided $3,538,867 for 2023–2025, including $1,707,420 from the general fund. General-fund funding rose $136,796 above the listed base budget, and it added one staff position. The House passed it 90–0, and it became law on 2023-05-08.
April 25, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored HB 1415 on 2023-01-16. On 2023-02-22, voted for $480,000 in police-staffing grants for a southeastern community facing an increase in registered sex offenders. On 2023-04-17, voted against replacing the grant with a law-enforcement staffing and equipment study. On 2023-04-25, voted for the final bill, which provided $29,000 in grants to eligible local police departments and called for considering a study of a joint sexual-predator task force. The governor signed it on 2023-05-04.
April 25, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1010 on 2023-02-15 and 2023-04-25, funding the state arts council through 2025. Its final budget provided $4,547,019, including $2,597,019 from the state general fund, for staff, operations and arts grants. That general-fund amount was $934,253 above the listed base budget. The bill became law on 2023-05-05. The House vote on 2023-04-25 was 73–18.
April 25, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the HB1024 environmental-quality budget on 2023-04-25. Its main funding table listed $92,718,910 for 2023–2025, including $15,782,024 from the general fund, $3,120,949 above the listed general-fund base budget. It separately provided $25 million in federal grants for lead-pipe removal and clean-water projects in communities of 10,000 people or fewer. The House passed it 85–8, and it became law on 2023-05-04.
April 25, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the HB1013 state-lands budget on 2023-04-25. It provided $14,342,415 for administration in 2023–2025, $5,539,416 above the listed base budget, and separately distributed $528,301,900 from permanent funds to schools and other state institutions. The House passed it 89–4, and it became law on 2023-04-28.
April 25, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the HB1007 Veterans’ Home budget on 2023-04-25. It provided $28,982,973 for 2023–2025, including $6,009,999 from the general fund. General-fund funding rose $229,356 above the listed base budget. The House passed it 93–0, and it became law on 2023-04-28.
April 25, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the HB1020 agricultural research, extension and transportation research budget on 2023-04-25. Its main funding table listed $355,683,723 through 2025-06-30, including $117,298,415 from the general fund, $8,230,128 above the listed general-fund base budget. The House passed it 79–12, and it became law on 2023-05-08.
April 25, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1532 on 2023-02-21 and 2023-04-13, and to override its veto on 2023-04-25. Its final version provided $10 million for private-school tuition assistance to families below five times the federal poverty level, excluding home schools. Payments were capped at 30% of the state per-student rate. The veto stood after the House vote of 52–41.
April 25, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the HB1008 Department of Financial Institutions budget on 2023-04-25. It provided $9,856,379 from special funds for 2023–2025, $749,872 above the listed base budget, and added three staff positions. The House passed it 85–5, and it became law on 2023-05-04.
April 25, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the SB2023 public employees retirement system budget on 2023-04-24. It funded $10,903,218 from special funds for 2023-07-01 through 2025-06-30, $1,047,922 above the listed base budget. It included $372,027 to prepare for closing the main pension plan to new hires, available only if the legislature approved that closure. The House passed it 82–9, and it became law on 2023-04-28.
April 24, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against the revised SB2017 game and fish budget on 2023-04-24. She had supported an earlier version on 2023-04-11. Its main table provided $107,611,466 from special funds for July 2023 through June 2025. That was $18,029,832 above the base budget. The House passed the revised bill 67–24, and it became law on 2023-04-27.
April 24, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-03, supported SB2276 to create a disability advisory council and repeal the autism task force. On 2023-04-24, supported a revised version that kept the autism task force and added a pilot paying family caregivers for extraordinary care. It provided $2.5 million and covered up to 120 eligible Medicaid-waiver participants, excluding the aged-and-disabled waiver. The House passed it 92–0, and it became law on 2023-04-26.
April 24, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the HB1002 court-system budget on 2023-04-24. Its main funding table listed $130,601,614 for 2023–2025, including $128,777,459 from the general fund. General-fund funding rose $18,464,669 above the listed base budget, and it added 21 staff positions. The House passed it 84–8, and it became law on 2023-04-28.
April 24, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-03-24, voted for SB2201 to shift medical-marijuana background-check costs to the state and lower added growing-facility fees. On 2023-04-24, supported a revised version also cutting patient application fees from a $50 maximum to $25. It passed the House 77–15 and became law on 2023-04-26.
April 24, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted in committee on 2023-02-06 and in the House on 2023-02-22 for HB1477. It provided $7 million from the community health trust fund for rural emergency medical services and ambulance districts during 2023–25. Chaired conference meetings on 2023-04-17 and 2023-04-21. Voted at both meetings to remove the Senate changes, which limited the money to one-time grants and made the ambulance-district rule changes expire on 2025-06-30. On 2023-04-21, voted against an alternative that kept the Senate funding changes but removed that expiration date. The final bill restored the House version, including the broader operations funding and changes to district formation and annexation rules. It became law on 2023-04-27.
April 21, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the HB1011 Highway Patrol budget on 2023-04-20. Its main funding table listed $71,189,188 for 2023–2025, including $49,438,826 from the general fund. General-fund funding rose $13,111,064 above the listed base budget, and it added 12 staff positions. The House passed it 80–11, and it became law on 2023-04-27.
April 20, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against SB2063 on 2023-03-21 and 2023-04-20. It authorized electric-vehicle charging grants using federal and other nonstate funds, with federal funding covering 10% to 80% of project costs. Its final version barred local governments from owning the charging stations. The bill became law on 2023-04-24. The House vote on 2023-04-20 was 73–18.
April 20, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2023-04-18 for a 50-cent-per-acre assessment to clear 2½ miles of the Park River. The motion passed unanimously.
April 18, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted for SB2129 on 2023-04-17, adding $1 million for a program promoting childbirth instead of abortion through counseling, medical services and material assistance. It served pregnant women and families caring for babies up to twelve months old. The bill became law on 2023-04-28. The House vote on 2023-04-17 was 80–10.
April 17, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-17, voted against SB2071, which directed the state to seek federal approval to raise pregnant women’s Medicaid income limit from 162% to 185% of the federal poverty level. The House rejected it 17–73.
April 17, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against SB2190 on 2023-04-17 to streamline child care assistance applications and waive fees for families at or below 30% of state median income. It allocated $500,000 for outreach and enrollment help. The House rejected the bill 12–78.
April 17, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-17, voted for SB2181 to seek federal approval for expanded pregnancy Medicaid coverage. The proposed expansion set the income ceiling at 175% of the federal poverty level instead of 162%. It included twelve months after pregnancy. The House passed it 87–3, and it became law on 2023-04-28.
April 17, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for SB2247 on 2023-03-27 and 2023-04-13, restricting specified race and sex concepts in public-college training that earned no course credit. It also barred requiring political views for hiring, promotion or graduation, while preserving academic teaching and research. On 2023-04-13, supported removing a $1 million campus-survey program. The bill became law on 2023-04-24. The House vote on 2023-04-13 was 50–39.
April 13, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for SB2273 on 2023-03-21 and 2023-04-13, providing $1 million in state grants to preserve rural grocery stores and improve food access. The final version removed an earlier requirement for recipients to match each state dollar with nonstate funds. The bill became law on 2023-04-21. The House vote on 2023-04-13 was 80–10.
April 13, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the HB1001 legislative-branch budget on 2023-04-11. Its main funding table listed $42,901,322 through 2025-06-30, including $42,813,322 from the general fund, $9,214,732 above the listed general-fund base budget. The House passed it 83–7, and it became law on 2023-04-20.
April 11, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the HB1005 Indian Affairs Commission budget on 2023-04-11. It provided $1,200,967 from the general fund for 2023–2025, $105,252 above the listed base budget. The House passed it 83–8, and it became law on 2023-04-18.
April 11, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the SB2022 retirement and investment office budget on 2023-04-11. It funded $11,979,984 from special funds for 2023-07-01 through 2025-06-30, $3,770,617 above the listed base budget. It allowed bonuses for investment staff when investments managed in the office beat their risk-based benchmarks. The House passed it 86–4, and it became law on 2023-04-21.
April 11, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the HB1022 public legal-defense budget on 2023-04-11. It provided $22,620,120 for 2023–2025, including $20,608,898 from the general fund. General-fund funding rose $1,314,535 above the listed base budget, and it added one staff position. The House passed it 88–2, and it became law on 2023-04-18.
April 11, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the SB2008 Public Service Commission budget on 2023-04-11. Its main funding table listed $21,261,831 for 2023–2025, including $7,537,710 from the general fund. General-fund funding rose $1,112,023 above the listed base budget, and it added two staff positions. The House passed it 82–7, and it became law on 2023-04-21.
April 11, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against the HB1023 Racing Commission budget on 2023-04-11. It provided $647,104 for 2023–2025, including $475,006 from the general fund, $87,112 above the listed general-fund base budget. The House passed it 76–14, and it became law on 2023-04-18.
April 11, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the HB1017 Office of Administrative Hearings budget on 2023-04-11. It provided $3,000,409 from special funds for 2023–2025, $118,880 above the listed base budget. The House passed it 90–0, and it became law on 2023-04-18.
April 11, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the SB2002 secretary-of-state and public-printing budget on 2023-04-10. It provided $24,874,199 for 2023–2025, including $7,042,124 from the general fund and $5 million for an election-management system. General-fund funding rose $1,520,572 above the listed base budget. The House passed it 86–4, and it became law on 2023-04-20.
April 10, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the SB2005 state treasurer’s budget on 2023-04-10. It provided $1,986,869 from the general fund for 2023–2025, $280,951 above the listed base budget. The House passed it 83–7, and it became law on 2023-04-20.
April 10, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the SB2014 Protection and Advocacy Project budget on 2023-04-10. It provided $7,589,911 for 2023–2025, including $3,323,370 from the general fund. General-fund funding rose $184,020 above the listed base budget. The House passed it 88–2, and it became law on 2023-04-18.
April 10, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the SB2011 Securities Department budget on 2023-04-10. It provided $3,258,732 from special funds for 2023–2025, $449,748 above the listed base budget, including $150,000 for technology upgrades. The House passed it 90–0, and it became law on 2023-04-18.
April 10, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the SB2006 Tax Commissioner budget on 2023-04-10. It provided $70,089,404 for 2023–2025, including $69,964,404 from the general fund and funding for homestead and disabled-veteran tax credits. General-fund funding rose $5,723,088 above the listed base budget. The House passed it 81–9, and it became law on 2023-04-20.
April 10, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the SB2021 workforce safety and insurance budget on 2023-04-10. It funded $72,023,722 from the agency fund for 2023-07-01 through 2025-06-30, $9,900,794 above the listed base budget. The House passed it 90–0, and it became law on 2023-04-20.
April 10, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the SB2007 Department of Labor and Human Rights budget on 2023-04-10. It provided $3,107,546 for 2023–2025, including $2,604,148 from the general fund. General-fund funding rose $357,679 above the listed base budget. The House passed it 87–3, and it became law on 2023-04-18.
April 10, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against the SB2001 governor’s-office budget on 2023-04-10. Its main funding table listed $5,324,075 from the general fund for 2023–2025, $736,131 above the listed base budget, and added two staff positions. The House passed it 66–24, and it became law on 2023-04-20.
April 10, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-07, voted for SB2032 to spend $3 million from the general fund on helping school paraprofessionals become qualified teachers. Grants covered tuition and scholarships, with limited college startup costs. The House passed it 80–7, and it became law on 2023-04-13.
April 7, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-07, voted against SB2033, which provided $3 million in state general funds for teacher-shortage student-loan forgiveness, including up to $5,000 a year for selected rural shortage positions. The House rejected it 7–80.
April 7, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the HB1006 aviation budget on 2023-04-06. It provided $38,644,667 for 2023–2025, including $31.1 million in grants and $475,000 from the general fund. Total funding rose $7,427,680 above the listed base budget, while general-fund funding stayed the same. The House passed it 83–9, and it became law on 2023-04-12.
April 6, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-06, voted against SB2142, which created an Office of Legal Immigration to help businesses recruit workers and help immigrants settle in North Dakota. It provided $485,000 in state general funds for two staff positions. The House passed it 64–28, and it became law on 2023-04-21.
April 6, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the HB1016 Job Service budget on 2023-04-06. Its main funding table listed $120,172,899 for 2023–2025, including $6,578,847 from the general fund and $45 million for unemployment-system upgrades. General-fund funding rose $6,168,618 above the listed base budget. The House passed it 77–15, and it became law on 2023-04-12.
April 6, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-04, voted for SB2185, which provided $100,000 in state general funds for a pregnancy and parenting resource website, printed materials and billboards. The House rejected it 33–57.
April 4, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-03, voted for HB1216 to raise the Development Fund’s financing limit for a licensed early-childhood education facility from $100,000 to $1 million. The House passed it 88–2, and it became law on 2023-04-10.
April 3, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-03, voted for HB1091 to create a certified foster-home category, normally limited to three children, and allow up to six months of nonfederal support for unlicensed relatives caring for children. The House passed it 90–0, and it became law on 2023-04-11.
April 3, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against HB1390 on 2023-02-14 and 2023-04-03. It created a commission to review suicide deaths, recommend prevention policies and publish reports without identifying people. The bill also provided $15,000 for the commission and kept its case records and meetings confidential. It became law on 2023-04-11. The House vote on 2023-04-03 was 73–16.
April 3, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for SB2242 on 2023-03-22, transferring $5 million in state funds to finance bulk propane storage tanks for retailers. Loans were capped at $500,000 or 85% of project costs, with 2% interest and repayment within 15 years. The bill became law on 2023-04-20. The House vote on 2023-03-22 was 82–10.
March 22, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-03-21, voted for SB2202, which provided $250,000 in state general funds for domestic-violence forensic medical-examination grants and related administration. The House passed it 93–0, and it became law on 2023-03-27.
March 21, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against SB2301 on 2023-03-17 to create monthly payments to licensed child care providers for worker wages and benefits. Payments ranged from $25 to $50 per child by age, with a 25% bonus for top-rated providers. The House rejected the bill 14–78.
March 17, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-03-09, voted for SB2030, which required Medicaid to join innovative drug-rebate and purchasing programs when feasible and cost-effective for the state. The House passed it 92–0, and it became law on 2023-03-14.
March 9, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1036 on 2023-02-22 to raise the maximum basic benefit standard for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. It set that standard at no less than half the federal poverty level for each household size. The House passed it 90–3, but the Senate rejected it 9–38.
February 22, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against HB1496 on 2023-02-21 to provide $20 million from the general fund for workforce housing grants in cities with fewer than 5,000 residents. Grants covered housing studies, blighted property or vacant lots, cleanup, and some mixed-use business improvements. The House rejected the bill 0–94.
February 21, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-20, voted for HB1530, which added Medicaid coverage for parent training in behavioral treatment and certain dental screening, case-management and remote dental services. The dental additions excluded Medicaid expansion. The House passed it 93–0, and it became law on 2023-04-12.
February 20, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-20, voted for HB1306, which provided $300,000 in state general funds for vouchers helping children ages 5–17 with dyslexia. The vouchers covered educational support after other available funding. The House passed it 93–0; the Senate rejected it 20–26.
February 20, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-16, voted for HB1068 to license nonbank mortgage servicers and impose financial and oversight standards, including audits for larger firms. It appropriated $225,000 from licensing and examination fees on enforcement. The House passed it 90–2, and it became law on 2023-04-11.
February 16, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-16, voted for HB1398 to require computer-science and cybersecurity instruction in schools. From 2025-08-01, graduation required a related course or completion of a school-approved integration plan. It also authorized up to $300,000 in adult-learning grants. The House passed it 81–11, and it became law on 2023-03-24.
February 16, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the HB1009 State Fair budget on 2023-02-13. It provided $642,833 from the general fund for fair prizes in 2023–2025, $100,000 above the listed base budget. The House passed it 88–1, and it became law on 2023-03-30.
February 13, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against HB1396 on 2023-02-10 to require temporary Medicaid eligibility rules for children under 19 and pregnant applicants while their eligibility was being determined. The House rejected the bill 12–78.
February 10, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored HB 1217 on 2023-01-09, then voted against it on 2023-02-10. It proposed $37.25 million from the state's strategic investment fund for the first phase of transportation work addressing northern Red River Valley flooding. It also required a study of project costs, shared funding, and economic effects. The House rejected the bill on 2023-02-10.
February 10, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored HB 1395 on 2023-01-16 and voted for it on 2023-02-09. It proposed a $5,000 yearly education and training account for each legislator and increased their technology, phone, and office stipend from $90 to $200 per month. It included $289,322 for the training accounts and $372,240 for the higher stipend. The House rejected it on 2023-02-09.
February 9, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against HB1258 on 2023-02-07 to fund a study of declining native pollinators and ways to protect their habitat with $25,000 from the general fund. The House rejected the bill 15–79.
February 7, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2023-02-07 to cancel the Homme Dam storm shelter project after additional costs emerged. The motion passed unanimously. Had voted on 2019-11-05 for the county to cover 25% of shelter and generator grant costs.
February 7, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: cms2.revize.com
Voted against HB1460 on 2023-02-02 to create an optional paid family and medical leave program funded by participating workers and employers. It offered up to 12 weeks at 66% of weekly wages, capped at $1,000 a week, with job protections, a $5 million state startup transfer, and an employer tax credit. The House rejected the bill 16–77.
February 2, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against HB1380 on 2023-01-24, offering homeowners age 65 or older a property tax credit covering the taxable value of their primary home. It provided $330 million in state money to replace local tax revenue, while leaving special assessments payable. The bill failed, 25–67.
January 24, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1179 on 2023-01-24 to cap growth in state appropriations at the average annual wage increase for North Dakota workers during the previous two-year budget period. The House rejected the bill 21–72.
January 24, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored SB 2277 on 2023-01-16. Its final proposal transferred county district-court clerks to state employment, required at least one clerk or deputy in each county, and provided $13,799,866 and 63 staff positions for the transfer. Counties with elected clerks began the transfer after the elected term ended. The Senate rejected the bill on 2023-02-17.
January 16, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2023-01-03 to finance a $194,000 motor grader through First United at 3.5% interest. The motion passed unanimously.
January 3, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: cms2.revize.com
Voted on 2022-08-02 to add $1 per hour for sheriff's deputies, correctional officers and dispatchers working between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. The motion passed 3–2. Also voted to start the pay increase on 2022-09-01.
August 2, 2022Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: cms2.revize.com
Voted on 2022-08-02 for a $3,000 hiring bonus paid in $1,000 installments after each of a new employee's first three years, starting 2022-09-01. The motion passed 4–1.
August 2, 2022Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: cms2.revize.com
Voted on 2022-08-02 for a $500 bonus for a county employee who refers someone hired for an open county position, paid after the new hire completes one year. The motion passed 4–1.
August 2, 2022Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted on 2021-09-14 to approve a $163,800 bid for roof repairs at the Fordville-Lankin shop. Voted on 2022-07-19 to pay the final $144,399.97 cost with federal CARES funds. Both motions passed unanimously.
July 19, 2022Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted on 2022-06-07 to buy $119,300 in pickup-towed road-maintenance equipment for summer workers without commercial driver's licenses: an air compressor, pothole-repair mastic mixer and crack sealer. The proposal's stated purpose was to keep licensed truck drivers on other projects. Half the cost came from highway funds and half from COVID relief funds. The motion passed unanimously.
June 7, 2022Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: cms2.revize.com
Voted on 2022-04-19 to raise correctional officers' pay by 10% and create two corporal positions paid 10% above other officers, effective 2022-05-01. The motion passed 4–1.
April 19, 2022Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted on 2022-01-18 to pay $200,000 from the county general fund for the emergency radio system, with repayment in four annual $50,000 payments starting in 2023. All five commissioners voted yes.
January 18, 2022Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted on 2022-01-18 to support a $150,000 investment by the county Job Development Authority in a shared commercial kitchen and business incubator. All five commissioners voted yes.
January 18, 2022Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Proposed and voted on 2022-01-04 to approve a three year contract with Agassiz Associates for mental health and addiction treatment at the Walsh County Jail. All five commissioners voted yes.
January 4, 2022Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: cms2.revize.com
Voted on 2021-12-21 to award Swingen Construction a $949,757 contract for a bridge project. She also proposed signing the construction and engineering agreements on 2022-01-18. Both votes passed unanimously.
December 21, 2021Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: cms2.revize.com
Proposed and voted on 2021-10-19 to move $78,890.79 from the county emergency fund to cover eligible expenses from the 2019 and 2020 flood projects. All five commissioners voted yes.
October 19, 2021Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: cms2.revize.com
Voted on 2021-10-06 to approve a $1,114,000 contract with Strata Corporation for a gravel stockpile expected to last five to six years. The county agreed to pay over five years. All five commissioners voted yes.
October 6, 2021Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: cms2.revize.com
Proposed and voted on 2021-04-19 to approve the County Road 19 paving project from Forest River to Interstate 29. On 2021-07-20, she voted to apply for a five year $515,000 loan for paving; on 2021-09-07, she voted to sign the loan at 2% interest. All three proposals passed unanimously.
July 20, 2021Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted on 2020-05-19 to add 14 days of county COVID-19 paid leave, for a total of 28 days for qualifying reasons. Voted on 2021-01-19 to extend an 80-hour COVID-19 leave benefit through 2021-03-31, and voted on 2021-04-06 for another extension. The motions passed.
April 6, 2021Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted on 2021-02-16 to approve the Edinburg bridge project with Riley Bros. Construction and a $53,983.11 county share. All five commissioners voted yes.
February 16, 2021Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: cms2.revize.com
Voted on 2021-01-19 and 2021-02-16 to approve new county tax and financial software from Tyler Technologies. On 2021-05-18, she voted to use federal CARES funds for the down payment. All three proposals passed unanimously.
February 16, 2021Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted on 2021-01-19 to raise the highway department pay plan by 12%. All five commissioners voted yes.
January 19, 2021Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted on 2020-10-20 to join the public safety pension plan for eligible deputies and correctional officers, splitting the additional 1.19% contribution equally between the county and employees. The motion passed unanimously.
October 20, 2020Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted on 2020-09-01 to buy a two-station Vesta 911 system for $26,442, with a monthly fee of $1,988.69. The motion passed unanimously.
September 1, 2020Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted on 2020-08-18 to move county employees to a 90/10 health plan, effective 2021-01-01. The county kept paying all premiums for individual coverage and 75% for coverage with dependents or family. The motion passed 4–1.
August 18, 2020Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted on 2020-07-07 to pay the original agreement's share of Drain 87 costs after the water board sought a larger county payment. The motion passed unanimously.
July 7, 2020Supports Government Spending Reduction
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Voted on 2020-04-20 to sign a grant agreement covering half the cost of energy improvements to county building lights. The county's share was estimated at $19,609. The motion passed unanimously.
April 20, 2020Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted on 2020-04-07 to exclude emergency management and law enforcement staff, including correctional officers, from three qualifying categories of federal COVID-19 paid leave, and highway workers from two categories. The motion passed unanimously.
April 7, 2020Supports Government Spending Reduction
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Moved and voted on 2019-11-05 to sign a $342,000 motor grader loan agreement with Kinetic Leasing. The motion passed unanimously.
November 5, 2019Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Moved and voted on 2019-06-18 to provide $15,000 toward a child protective services intake worker shared by seven counties. The motion passed unanimously.
June 18, 2019Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Moved and voted on 2019-04-16 to approve railroad crossing projects on County Roads 1 and 6, with the county paying 10% of the cost. The motion passed unanimously.
April 16, 2019Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Public Safety and Crime Control · 34 support · 2 oppose

Voted on 2026-09-03 for HB1628 to license kratom sellers, limit sales to adults 21 and older, require testing and labels, ban extracts and provide $20,000 for public health information. On 2026-09-04, voted against SB2408's broader ban on kratom alkaloids, which failed. Later that day, voted for revised HB1628. It kept regulated pure-leaf sales and added criminal penalties for specified kratom derivatives, including products above its 7-hydroxymitragynine limits. It became law on 2026-09-04.
September 4, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for SB2107 on 2023-04-07 to make reckless endangerment by intentionally or knowingly firing a gun a class B felony and increase prison terms for certain repeat armed offenders. Rejected a broader sentencing revision on 2023-04-25. On 2023-04-28, opposed the final version, which only called for considering a study of firearm-possession restrictions and omitted the earlier penalty proposals. That version failed, 13–77. Voted for HB1225 on 2025-02-17 to make reckless endangerment with a firearm or another dangerous weapon a class B felony. That version also broadened which out-of-state convictions counted for habitual-offender sentences. On 2025-04-21, supported the revised bill. It limited the new class B felony to firearm use and removed the broader conviction rule. It became law on 2025-04-28.
April 21, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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Co-sponsored HB 1247 on 2025-01-13 and voted for it on 2025-02-04 and 2025-04-17. The first House version required no contact and separation between a student convicted of sexual assault and the student victim. The final law required a school safety plan after a sexual-offense conviction or juvenile finding, with schools choosing safeguards such as no contact, transfers, or an expulsion hearing. It required consideration of the victim's well-being when setting the length of separation and allowed the victim or guardian to request a review. The governor signed it on 2025-04-23.
April 17, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-02-03 for HB 1351 to create criminal penalties and civil claims for sexually explicit deepfake images, including sex-offender registration provisions. On 2025-04-14, she voted for a replacement that added altered and computer-generated images to existing rules on sexually expressive images and added civil remedies for harmed people. Those remedies included damages, recovery of the offender's gains, and possible legal fees and court orders. The replacement omitted the earlier registration changes. It became law on 2025-04-21.
April 14, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-04-09 in committee and on 2025-04-11 in the House for SB 2387. It gave sexual violence survivors access to an advocate during forensic medical examinations, subject to timely availability, and made those communications confidential. It provided for privately retained counsel during police interviews, except forensic interviews with alleged child victims. Survivors received free access to police reports, subject to law, and written information about their rights at first contact. It became law on 2025-04-22.
April 11, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against HB1121 on 2023-01-13 to make simple assault of a known health-care facility employee or contractor on facility property a class C felony. The House passed it 67–25; after Senate amendments, it failed in the Senate on 2023-03-27, 23–24. On 2025-04-07, supported HB1341's narrower class C felony for assault of a hospital worker providing essential patient care in the course of duties. The House passed it 68–21, and it became law on 2025-04-15.
April 7, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: legiscan.com
Moved on 2025-03-12 to recommend SB 2292 and send it to the Appropriations Committee, and voted for it on 2025-03-25. The bill specified the general fund as the source for reimbursing sexual assault medical screening and forensic examinations, and qualifying children's forensic interviews, within legislative funding limits. It became law on 2025-04-02. It did not itself appropriate a new funding amount.
March 25, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-03-12 in committee and on 2025-03-13 in the House for SB 2173. It allowed children's advocacy center staff to discuss examinations, interviews, advocacy, and therapy with specified investigators, courts, other centers, and health professionals acting in their official roles. It kept records confidential and retained the court-signed subpoena requirement for releases to others. It also included accredited or associate national alliance members in the center definition. It became law on 2025-03-19.
March 13, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored HB 1593 on 2025-01-20 and voted for it on 2025-02-17. It required websites providing sexual material harmful to minors to verify age and block access by minors. It proposed a $10,000 daily fine and civil lawsuits for violations. It also required anonymous age checks without retaining users' identity data or records of their online activity. The House rejected it on 2025-02-17.
February 17, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2024-08-06 to pay night-shift deputies a $300 monthly retention bonus in 2025. The motion passed unanimously.
August 6, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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Moved and voted on 2023-11-21 to let the sheriff use Back the Blue grant funds for law enforcement hiring and retention bonuses and trainee tuition and fees. The motion passed unanimously.
November 21, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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Voted on 2023-04-10 for SB2248's broader proposal covering direct drug delivery and supplying drugs for consumption that caused a fatal or life-threatening overdose. Voted on 2023-04-26 for its narrower final version, which made willfully supplying another person to deliver drugs that caused such an overdose a class A felony. It included medical and emergency-help exceptions and required fentanyl death reporting and public-awareness work. The House passed the final bill 92–0, and it became law on 2023-04-29. Voted on 2023-10-25 for SB2396 to expand that offense to direct delivery and supplying another person to deliver or consume the drug. The class A penalty remained. SB2396 became law on 2023-10-25.
October 25, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2023-08-01 to adopt the Guardian RFID jail management system to track activities and medication records. The motion passed unanimously.
August 1, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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Voted for the SB2016 National Guard and emergency services budget on 2023-04-26. Its main table provided $365,489,721 for July 2023 through June 2025, including $26,285,648 from the general fund. General-fund spending rose $3,403,416 above the base budget. The House passed the bill 90–2, and it became law on 2023-05-08.
April 26, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored HB 1415 on 2023-01-16. On 2023-02-22, voted for $480,000 in police-staffing grants for a southeastern community facing an increase in registered sex offenders. On 2023-04-17, voted against replacing the grant with a law-enforcement staffing and equipment study. On 2023-04-25, voted for the final bill, which provided $29,000 in grants to eligible local police departments and called for considering a study of a joint sexual-predator task force. The governor signed it on 2023-05-04.
April 25, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted in committee on 2023-02-06 and in the House on 2023-02-22 for HB1477. It provided $7 million from the community health trust fund for rural emergency medical services and ambulance districts during 2023–25. Chaired conference meetings on 2023-04-17 and 2023-04-21. Voted at both meetings to remove the Senate changes, which limited the money to one-time grants and made the ambulance-district rule changes expire on 2025-06-30. On 2023-04-21, voted against an alternative that kept the Senate funding changes but removed that expiration date. The final bill restored the House version, including the broader operations funding and changes to district formation and annexation rules. It became law on 2023-04-27.
April 21, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the HB1011 Highway Patrol budget on 2023-04-20. Its main funding table listed $71,189,188 for 2023–2025, including $49,438,826 from the general fund. General-fund funding rose $13,111,064 above the listed base budget, and it added 12 staff positions. The House passed it 80–11, and it became law on 2023-04-27.
April 20, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-11, voted for HB1269, which required domestic-violence assessment and intervention for more listed offenses against intimate partners. Courts also gained alternatives when a program found an offender unsuitable. The House passed it 86–4, and it became law on 2023-04-18.
April 11, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2019-04-02, 2019-10-15, 2020-03-17, 2022-05-02 and 2023-04-10 to declare Walsh County flood emergencies and activate its emergency operations plan. Also proposed the declaration on 2019-10-15. All five motions passed unanimously.
April 10, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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On 2023-04-06, voted for HB1334, which made acts, conspiracy, training and intentional support for domestic terrorism connected to federally designated terrorist organizations class C felonies. The House passed it 86–6, and it became law on 2023-04-12.
April 6, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-04, voted for HB1268, which included stalking in domestic-violence protection orders and required an attempt at personal notice before notice by publication. The House passed it 89–2, and it became law on 2023-04-07.
April 4, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-01-30, voted for HB1144’s annual child-abuse-reporting training for school and child-care staff, passed 78–16. On 2023-04-03, voted against the revised bill, which kept that training and added credit for child-care training completed during licensing. The House passed it 71–19, and it became law on 2023-04-11.
April 3, 2023Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for SB2292 on 2023-03-15, making disturbances at polling places an election offense and protecting election systems against damage to their security or availability. It required observer locations with a clear view and hearing of polling-place activity while protecting voter privacy. The bill became law on 2023-03-22. The House vote on 2023-03-15 was 92–1.
March 15, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-21, voted against HB1537, which required police training and reporting on bias crimes and added certain bias motives as sentencing factors. Public reports excluded victims’ and suspects’ names. The House rejected it 29–65.
February 21, 2023Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1492 on 2023-02-14 to include substantial, lasting mental injury in the child-abuse crime. The House passed the bill 74–17, and it became law on 2023-03-27.
February 14, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1140 on 2023-02-02, making it a felony for a health care provider to inseminate someone with a donor’s reproductive material while knowing the recipient had not consented to that donor. The bill became law on 2023-04-04. The House vote on 2023-02-02 was 93–0.
February 2, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored HB 1171 on 2023-01-09 and voted for it on 2023-01-18. It made forcing or coercing a woman to have an abortion against her will a Class C felony. The crime required physical harm, an attempt, or a threat intended to compel the abortion; protected speech and general statements about lawful pregnancy options were excluded. At the victim's request, police had to give her at least 24 hours' notice before first contacting the accused person. The governor signed it on 2023-04-11.
January 18, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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Voted on 2022-01-18 to pay $200,000 from the county general fund for the emergency radio system, with repayment in four annual $50,000 payments starting in 2023. All five commissioners voted yes.
January 18, 2022Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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Voted on 2021-08-03 to adopt the 2021 Walsh County Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan approved by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. She also seconded the proposal. All five commissioners voted yes.
August 3, 2021Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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Voted on 2021-04-06 to approve a county burning ban and on 2021-04-14 to cancel it after rain and snow. On 2021-04-19, she voted to approve a new ban when the fire danger rating was high or worse or a red flag warning was issued. The last proposal passed 3–2. Voted on 2021-10-19 to end the ban; that motion passed unanimously.
April 19, 2021Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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Voted on 2020-09-01 to raise the local 911 fee from $1 to $1.50 per month per communication connection, effective 2021-01-01. The resolution passed unanimously after voters approved the increase.
September 1, 2020Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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Voted on 2020-09-01 to buy a two-station Vesta 911 system for $26,442, with a monthly fee of $1,988.69. The motion passed unanimously.
September 1, 2020Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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Voted on 2020-07-21 to offer Grafton continued use of the county law enforcement center and dispatch service for $150,000 in 2021. The offer rose by $2,500 annually to $160,000 over five years. The motion passed unanimously. The city rejected the offer, as reported on 2020-08-04.
July 21, 2020Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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Moved and voted on 2019-06-18 to provide $15,000 toward a child protective services intake worker shared by seven counties. The motion passed unanimously.
June 18, 2019Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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Moved and voted on 2019-04-16 to approve railroad crossing projects on County Roads 1 and 6, with the county paying 10% of the cost. The motion passed unanimously.
April 16, 2019Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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Moved on 2019-01-15 to require active shooter training for all county employees. The motion passed.
January 15, 2019Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties · 32 support · 15 oppose

Voted for SB2107 on 2023-04-07 to make reckless endangerment by intentionally or knowingly firing a gun a class B felony and increase prison terms for certain repeat armed offenders. Rejected a broader sentencing revision on 2023-04-25. On 2023-04-28, opposed the final version, which only called for considering a study of firearm-possession restrictions and omitted the earlier penalty proposals. That version failed, 13–77. Voted for HB1225 on 2025-02-17 to make reckless endangerment with a firearm or another dangerous weapon a class B felony. That version also broadened which out-of-state convictions counted for habitual-offender sentences. On 2025-04-21, supported the revised bill. It limited the new class B felony to firearm use and removed the broader conviction rule. It became law on 2025-04-28.
April 21, 2025Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Co-sponsored HB1296 on 2025-01-13, then voted against it on 2025-02-25. It proposed requiring concealed-firearm disclosure only when an officer asked, with a $20 noncriminal penalty. The House rejected it. Voted on 2025-02-25 for both divisions of HB1588, then against the combined bill. Division A changed weapon definitions, civil liability, school and university restrictions, penalties, and police notification. Division B let local governments ban weapons in public buildings and made using a binary trigger during a crime a felony. Voted on 2025-04-15 for the revised bill. It let people carrying without a concealed-carry license disclose their gun when police asked. Violating the notification and identification rules carried a $20 fee. Prohibited-gathering violations changed from an infraction to a $100 noncriminal offense. It also raised the knife-blade threshold from five to six inches, expanded specified officials’ carry exceptions, and raised the maximum concealed-carry testing charge from $50 to $100. The final bill omitted the broad civil immunity and binary-trigger provisions. It became law on 2025-04-21.
April 15, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted on 2025-02-03 for HB 1351 to create criminal penalties and civil claims for sexually explicit deepfake images, including sex-offender registration provisions. On 2025-04-14, she voted for a replacement that added altered and computer-generated images to existing rules on sexually expressive images and added civil remedies for harmed people. Those remedies included damages, recovery of the offender's gains, and possible legal fees and court orders. The replacement omitted the earlier registration changes. It became law on 2025-04-21.
April 14, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1205 on 2023-02-16 and 2023-04-21 to bar sexually explicit material from public libraries’ children’s collections and require removal or relocation policies. Its definition excluded material with serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value for minors. It became law on 2023-04-25. Voted for SB2360 on 2023-04-20 to require filtering of online library resources for K–12 students and make willful exposure by covered employees a misdemeanor. Supported its veto override on 2023-04-27; the veto stood after a 53–41 House vote. On 2025-04-14, supported SB2307, expanding restrictions to public-library areas easily accessible to minors and adding school-library and digital-resource requirements. The later bill omitted the earlier direct employee misdemeanor. It added complaint reviews and funding sanctions for noncompliance. The governor vetoed it on 2025-04-22; the Senate failed to override on 2025-04-25.
April 14, 2025Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted on 2025-04-09 in committee and on 2025-04-11 in the House for SB 2387. It gave sexual violence survivors access to an advocate during forensic medical examinations, subject to timely availability, and made those communications confidential. It provided for privately retained counsel during police interviews, except forensic interviews with alleged child victims. Survivors received free access to police reports, subject to law, and written information about their rights at first contact. It became law on 2025-04-22.
April 11, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted against HB1121 on 2023-01-13 to make simple assault of a known health-care facility employee or contractor on facility property a class C felony. The House passed it 67–25; after Senate amendments, it failed in the Senate on 2023-03-27, 23–24. On 2025-04-07, supported HB1341's narrower class C felony for assault of a hospital worker providing essential patient care in the course of duties. The House passed it 68–21, and it became law on 2025-04-15.
April 7, 2025Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted against SB 2352 on 2025-03-26 to authorize children aged eighteen months or younger to live with their mothers at the Heart River correctional center under safety, stay-length, and treatment policies. On 2025-03-27, voted to reconsider its passage, but that motion failed. The bill became law on 2025-04-02.
March 26, 2025Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted on 2025-02-05 and 2025-03-18 for HB1118 to set display and misuse rules for temporary vehicle registrations. Buyers' temporary registrations lasted seventy-five days instead of thirty. Specified registration forgery, fraudulent alteration or knowing use became a Class A misdemeanor instead of a Class C felony. It became law on 2025-03-25.
March 18, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted on 2025-02-25 for HB1350, which proposed excluding items used in a person’s business, trade, or profession from the state’s definition of a dangerous weapon. The House rejected the bill that day.
February 25, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted against HB1326 on 2025-02-25, against reconsidering its initial defeat that day, and against its passage after reconsideration. The bill proposed denying the self-defense justification to people using a firearm they were barred from possessing under specified firearm-possession prohibitions. The House passed it after reconsideration, but the Senate rejected it on 2025-04-02.
February 25, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Chief-sponsored HB 1337 on 2025-01-13 and voted for it on 2025-02-19. It proposed $10 million for mental-health and substance-use treatment for people in jail or prison. The final House proposal allowed grants to counties and contracts with private providers, with reports on services and results. The House rejected the bill on 2025-02-19.
February 19, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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On 2023-02-01, supported a committee do-not-pass recommendation for HB1281. Voted against HB1281 on 2023-02-06 and HB1217 on 2025-02-19. Both repealed the specific class A felony for knowingly having HIV or AIDS and willfully transferring specified body fluids through sexual contact or an unsterilized syringe or similar device. The repealed law included a defense for informed, consenting adults who used an appropriate protective device during sexual activity. HB1281 failed in the House, 18–75. HB1217 passed, 50–43, and became law on 2025-03-19.
February 19, 2025Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for House Bill 1583, a bill to widen the crime of running a false political ad to reckless disregard for the truth. The North Dakota House passed it 55-34, but the Senate rejected it 11-36 and it did not become law.
February 18, 2025Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted on 2025-02-14 for HB1242 to presume shared parenting decisions and equal or nearly equal residential time were in a child's best interests. The proposal allowed rebuttal for harm, danger or impractical exchanges and exceptions for specified abuse or protection orders. It failed for lack of a constitutional majority. She voted on 2025-02-17 to reconsider it, but that motion failed.
February 17, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted on 2025-02-17 for HB1301, which proposed limiting court orders barring firearms and other weapons during probation for nonviolent misdemeanors and infractions. Listed assault, stalking, and domestic-violence offenses were exceptions. The House rejected the bill that day.
February 17, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted on 2025-02-14 for HB1292 and HB1414, which proposed removing carbon dioxide pipelines from the state’s common-carrier rules. HB1414 also proposed barring eminent domain for carbon capture, solar, wind, hydrogen, carbon dioxide storage and transport, and projects using specified federal carbon-capture tax credits. It repealed the geological-storage eminent-domain provision. The House rejected both bills that day.
February 14, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-02-12 for HB1586, which proposed raising the primary residence property tax credit from $500 to $5,000 and barring tax-lien foreclosure on primary homes for new delinquent taxes. It kept the debt collectible through methods such as garnishment, attachment and state income tax refund deductions. The House rejected the bill that day.
February 12, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Co-sponsored SB 2184 on 2025-01-13 to require replacement parenting time after certain false claims of harm. A court had to find that one parent made a false claim in bad faith. The resulting investigation had to deny the other parent's court-ordered time without finding harm, abuse or neglect. The introduced bill allowed a good-cause exception and required matching time within two years. An amended version failed in the Senate on 2025-01-31.
January 13, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted on 2023-04-10 for SB2248's broader proposal covering direct drug delivery and supplying drugs for consumption that caused a fatal or life-threatening overdose. Voted on 2023-04-26 for its narrower final version, which made willfully supplying another person to deliver drugs that caused such an overdose a class A felony. It included medical and emergency-help exceptions and required fentanyl death reporting and public-awareness work. The House passed the final bill 92–0, and it became law on 2023-04-29. Voted on 2023-10-25 for SB2396 to expand that offense to direct delivery and supplying another person to deliver or consume the drug. The class A penalty remained. SB2396 became law on 2023-10-25.
October 25, 2023Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for HB1362 on 2023-02-17, protecting parental rights and allowing lawsuits over government interference. Voted against its narrower version on 2023-04-25, then changed to support it on 2023-04-26. The final law recognized parents’ primary role in upbringing and education while preserving child-protection powers and juvenile law. It became law on 2023-05-06. The House vote on 2023-04-26 was 65–26.
April 26, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for SB2260 on 2023-04-25, protecting parents’ control over their children’s upbringing and giving parents access to school records and curriculum. It allowed opting children out of instruction or data collection and barred schools from requiring pronouns inconsistent with a child’s sex. The bill failed, 39–51.
April 25, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for SB2150 on 2023-04-17, making most abortions a felony for the person performing them, not the pregnant woman. Exceptions covered preventing death or serious physical harm and pregnancies from specified sexual crimes or incest at six weeks or less. The bill became law on 2023-04-24. The House vote on 2023-04-17 was 76–14.
April 17, 2023Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for SB2247 on 2023-03-27 and 2023-04-13, restricting specified race and sex concepts in public-college training that earned no course credit. It also barred requiring political views for hiring, promotion or graduation, while preserving academic teaching and research. On 2023-04-13, supported removing a $1 million campus-survey program. The bill became law on 2023-04-24. The House vote on 2023-04-13 was 50–39.
April 13, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for HB1333 on 2023-01-26. On 2023-04-12, voted against replacing its ban on adult cabaret performances but then voted for the revised bill. The final version penalized organizing sexually oriented performances involving specified nudity or sexual conduct on public property or at businesses open to minors. Repeat offenses carried felony penalties. The bill became law on 2023-04-21. The House vote on 2023-04-12 was 76–14.
April 12, 2023Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for the HB1022 public legal-defense budget on 2023-04-11. It provided $22,620,120 for 2023–2025, including $20,608,898 from the general fund. General-fund funding rose $1,314,535 above the listed base budget, and it added one staff position. The House passed it 88–2, and it became law on 2023-04-18.
April 11, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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On 2023-04-10, voted for SB2274, which continued limits on requiring COVID-19 vaccination documents and extended them to vaccines under federal emergency authorization. Health-care, correctional and emergency exceptions remained. The House passed it 87–3, and it became law on 2023-04-18.
April 10, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for SB2282 on 2023-04-05, setting nine-year deadlines for sexual-assault lawsuits and 21-year deadlines for childhood sexual-abuse claims, with the clock starting no earlier than age 15 for younger children. It also waived a notice deadline for such claims against the state. The bill became law on 2023-04-11. The House vote on 2023-04-05 was 56–33.
April 5, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-04, voted for HB1268, which included stalking in domestic-violence protection orders and required an attempt at personal notice before notice by publication. The House passed it 89–2, and it became law on 2023-04-07.
April 4, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-03, voted for HB1043, which allowed a bachelor’s degree instead of a master’s for directors of children’s psychiatric residential programs, with required experience. It also required a serious risk of harm for admission. The House passed it 85–5, and it became law on 2023-04-10.
April 3, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-03-21, voted for SB2225 to require court approval before a guardian forced a person to take mood stabilizers or antipsychotic medicines. It required medical evidence and a hearing, with emergency-care exceptions. It passed the House 70–23 and became law on 2023-03-27.
March 21, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for SB2043 on 2023-03-20 to authorize warrants for electronic message contents and sender or recipient location information. It extended warrant validity from 24 hours to 10 days and allowed extensions up to 30 days when requested information had not been produced. The House passed the bill 91–1, and it became law on 2023-03-27.
March 20, 2023Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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On 2023-03-07, voted for SB2041 to give people harmed by nonconsensual sharing, or threats to share, private intimate images a civil lawsuit for damages and legal costs. It included exceptions for specified legitimate disclosures and protections for the plaintiff’s identity. The House passed it 90–2, and it became law on 2023-03-14.
March 7, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-21, voted for HB1533 to let courts dismiss abusive lawsuits brought to harass domestic-abuse survivors and require the abusive filer to pay the other party’s legal costs. The House passed it 91–3, and it became law on 2023-03-22.
February 21, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1350 on 2023-02-20. It limited mandatory prison terms for specified armed drug offenses to people already barred from possessing firearms, added definitions covering direct possession and accessible items under a person’s intended control, and extended firearm bans to equivalent out-of-state and federal convictions. The bill became law on 2023-04-11. The House vote on 2023-02-20 was 93–0.
February 20, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1401 on 2023-02-20 to bar state agencies and local governments from restricting gun possession without due process. It covered people otherwise eligible for a class 2 firearm and dangerous weapon license. The House rejected the bill 33–60.
February 20, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored HB 1403 on 2023-01-16 and voted for it on 2023-02-17. It proposed a right for parents to direct their children's upbringing, education, and physical and mental health care. Government interference had to meet a compelling need through the least restrictive means. Parents could sue or raise the right as a defense, and the winning party received reasonable legal fees and costs. The House rejected it on 2023-02-17.
February 17, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for HB1254 on 2023-02-17, banning gender-transition surgeries and puberty blockers or specified hormone treatments for minors, with exceptions for certain sex-development disorders and treatment started before the law. Surgery violations carried felony penalties; drug violations carried misdemeanor penalties. The bill became law on 2023-04-19. The House vote on 2023-02-17 was 66–25.
February 17, 2023Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for HB1526 on 2023-02-15 to restrict school instruction promoting listed ideas about race, sex, and wealth redistribution and bar teachers from several kinds of social and emotional instruction. It also required public approval of reproductive-health materials and let parents request exemptions from that teaching. The House rejected the bill 41–52.
February 15, 2023Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for HB1505 on 2023-02-14 to make requiring vaccination as a condition of exercising a right, performing a duty, or enjoying a privilege a misdemeanor. The House rejected the bill 31–60.
February 14, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against HB1518 on 2023-02-07, adding rights for sexual-assault survivors, including evidence preservation, free forensic exams, access to reports and an attorney or counselor during police interviews. The bill failed in the House, 28–66.
February 7, 2023Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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On 2023-02-01, voted for HB1264, which added individualized planning for people with mental or cognitive impairments to jail plans for alternatives to physical custody. The House passed it 84–9, and it became law on 2023-03-30.
February 1, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for HB1256 on 2023-01-30, making adults’ sexual-harassment or discrimination allegations under public-institution policies or Title IX a misdemeanor when found to have no basis in fact or law. The Senate rejected the bill on 2023-03-28. The House vote on 2023-01-30 was 53–41.
January 30, 2023Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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On 2023-01-20, voted for HB1138, which added mental-health court as a sentencing option. It extended sentence reductions or case sealing to people who completed approved programs for certain drug or impaired-driving offenses. The House passed it 74–16, and it became law on 2023-04-11.
January 20, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-01-19, voted against HB1122 to create a separate mass-murder crime involving a weapon and four deaths, or one death and three serious injuries, in specified locations. It set a minimum 30-year prison sentence and punished knowing assistance to the killer. The bill failed in the House 19–72.
January 19, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for HB1136 on 2023-01-18. It barred state and local governments from seriously restricting religious practice unless the restriction served an essential government interest through the least restrictive means. It also barred treating religious activity more strictly than comparable nonreligious activity and allowed lawsuits for violations. The bill became law on 2023-03-30. The House vote on 2023-01-18 was 90–0.
January 18, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted against HB1130 on 2023-01-13 to require courts, on request, to seal a first disorderly-conduct conviction after five years without another such conviction. It also barred reopening that record by court order. The House rejected the bill 1–91.
January 13, 2023Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Proposed and voted on 2022-01-04 to approve a three year contract with Agassiz Associates for mental health and addiction treatment at the Walsh County Jail. All five commissioners voted yes.
January 4, 2022Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Housing Affordability · 10 support · 2 oppose

Voted for HB 1626 on 2026-01-22 to require the five-percent early property-tax payment discount to be applied before the primary residence credit. It became law on 2026-01-23. On 2026-09-04, voted against SB 2405, which proposed deleting that order rule for real estate and mobile-home taxes. The later bill failed in the House.
September 4, 2026Supports Housing Affordability
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Voted for an earlier HB1014 industrial commission and state-enterprise budget on 2023-02-22. Its main funding table proposed $446,868,352 for 2023-07-01 through 2025-06-30, including $41,247,922 from the general fund, $14,758,309 above the listed general-fund base budget. It separately proposed $12,500,000 for the housing incentive fund. The House passed this version 84–9. She was absent from final passage of a later version on 2023-04-29. Voted on 2025-04-24 against an earlier SB2014 budget for the Industrial Commission and related agencies. Voted on 2025-05-02 for the final package, which provided about $449.3 million, including $44.7 million from the general fund, for 2025–2027. It covered the Bank of North Dakota, housing programs, mineral resources, the state mill, and other commission work. The governor signed SB2014 on 2025-05-19 and vetoed a $150,000 Native American homelessness liaison grant and a study of western communities' economies as oil and gas activity declined.
May 2, 2025Supports Housing Affordability
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Voted for HB1158 on 2023-02-21 and 2023-04-26. Its final version set state income tax rates at 0%, 1.95% and 2.5%, created a $500 primary-home property tax credit for 2024 and 2025, expanded relief for older or disabled homeowners, and provided $158,225,000 for property tax relief and administration. It became law on 2023-04-27. Voted on 2025-02-11 for SB2201 to clarify credit eligibility for life estates, qualifying trusts and contracts for deed, including certain care-facility absences; it became law on 2025-02-18. Voted on 2025-02-25 for HB1266 to raise the taxable home value covered by the disabled veterans' credit from $8,100 to $9,000 and change credit calculations for co-owners outside the immediate family; the Senate rejected it on 2025-04-15. On 2025-02-25, supported HB1168: a main school property tax levy limit of 50 mills instead of 70, a separate 10-mill levy and 3% growth limits for other local levies, with exceptions. Also supported HB1176's proposed $1,450 primary residence credit. On 2025-05-02, voted against a replacement HB1168 that proposed a $1,000 credit and $295 million for it; the House rejected that bill. Voted on 2025-05-02 for final HB1176. It raised the primary residence credit to $1,600, provided $408.9 million from the Legacy property tax relief fund, raised the maximum qualifying renter refund from $400 to $600, and retained the $9,000 veterans' credit and co-ownership changes. It limited growth in local levy dollars to 3%, with exceptions for new property and certain levies, five years of unused increases, and voter approval for larger levies. It increased the Legacy Fund distribution from 7% to 8% of its five-year average value and split money remaining after debt service 30% for highways and 70% for property tax relief. Earlier proposed $10,000 increases in homestead credit income limits were removed. HB1176 became law on 2025-05-03.
May 2, 2025Supports Housing Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-02-25 for HB1575's proposed state-funded reductions in taxable value for residential, agricultural and commercial property. It capped annual growth in a property's taxable value at 3%, excluding new improvements. It replaced the primary residence credit and provided $483.4 million for the reductions. Funding included $85,001,793 from the general fund and the rest from Legacy Fund earnings. The Senate rejected the bill on 2025-05-02.
February 25, 2025Supports Housing Affordability
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Voted on 2025-02-12 for HB1586, which proposed raising the primary residence property tax credit from $500 to $5,000 and barring tax-lien foreclosure on primary homes for new delinquent taxes. It kept the debt collectible through methods such as garnishment, attachment and state income tax refund deductions. The House rejected the bill that day.
February 12, 2025Supports Housing Affordability
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Voted on 2025-02-11 for HB1353, which proposed limiting annual growth in local property tax levies to inflation or 3%, whichever was lower. It allowed certain exceptions, three years of unused increases, and a larger levy if 60% of voters approved it for one year. The House rejected the bill that day.
February 11, 2025Supports Housing Affordability
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Voted on 2024-10-01 to delay the delinquent mobile home tax process for people who qualified for the Primary Residence Credit until the state report arrived on 2024-11-05. The motion passed 4–1.
October 1, 2024Supports Housing Affordability
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Voted on 2024-07-16 to give MAK Construction a 100% property tax exemption for 13 years for two 36-unit apartment buildings in Grafton. The motion passed unanimously.
July 16, 2024Supports Housing Affordability
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Voted on 2024-07-02 to approve a support letter for the Red River Regional Council's PRICE project for affordable manufactured housing. The motion passed unanimously.
July 2, 2024Supports Housing Affordability
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Voted for the SB2006 Tax Commissioner budget on 2023-04-10. It provided $70,089,404 for 2023–2025, including $69,964,404 from the general fund and funding for homestead and disabled-veteran tax credits. General-fund funding rose $5,723,088 above the listed base budget. The House passed it 81–9, and it became law on 2023-04-20.
April 10, 2023Supports Housing Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against HB1496 on 2023-02-21 to provide $20 million from the general fund for workforce housing grants in cities with fewer than 5,000 residents. Grants covered housing studies, blighted property or vacant lots, cleanup, and some mixed-use business improvements. The House rejected the bill 0–94.
February 21, 2023Opposes Housing Affordability
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Voted against HB1380 on 2023-01-24, offering homeowners age 65 or older a property tax credit covering the taxable value of their primary home. It provided $330 million in state money to replace local tax revenue, while leaving special assessments payable. The bill failed, 25–67.
January 24, 2023Opposes Housing Affordability
Source: ndlegis.gov

Social Programs and Welfare · 39 support · 8 oppose

Voted on 2026-09-02 to allow introduction of a proposal for $9 million in one-time child-care assistance. The proposed grants targeted eligible families earning less than thirty percent of state median income, households facing homelessness, and families in the child-welfare system. The introduction motion failed, so the proposal did not advance.
September 2, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted against HB 1627 on 2026-01-22, which proposed $7 million for free meals in public or nonpublic schools. Eligible students' household income could be no more than three times the federal poverty level. It failed in the House.
January 22, 2026Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1158 on 2023-02-21 and 2023-04-26. Its final version set state income tax rates at 0%, 1.95% and 2.5%, created a $500 primary-home property tax credit for 2024 and 2025, expanded relief for older or disabled homeowners, and provided $158,225,000 for property tax relief and administration. It became law on 2023-04-27. Voted on 2025-02-11 for SB2201 to clarify credit eligibility for life estates, qualifying trusts and contracts for deed, including certain care-facility absences; it became law on 2025-02-18. Voted on 2025-02-25 for HB1266 to raise the taxable home value covered by the disabled veterans' credit from $8,100 to $9,000 and change credit calculations for co-owners outside the immediate family; the Senate rejected it on 2025-04-15. On 2025-02-25, supported HB1168: a main school property tax levy limit of 50 mills instead of 70, a separate 10-mill levy and 3% growth limits for other local levies, with exceptions. Also supported HB1176's proposed $1,450 primary residence credit. On 2025-05-02, voted against a replacement HB1168 that proposed a $1,000 credit and $295 million for it; the House rejected that bill. Voted on 2025-05-02 for final HB1176. It raised the primary residence credit to $1,600, provided $408.9 million from the Legacy property tax relief fund, raised the maximum qualifying renter refund from $400 to $600, and retained the $9,000 veterans' credit and co-ownership changes. It limited growth in local levy dollars to 3%, with exceptions for new property and certain levies, five years of unused increases, and voter approval for larger levies. It increased the Legacy Fund distribution from 7% to 8% of its five-year average value and split money remaining after debt service 30% for highways and 70% for property tax relief. Earlier proposed $10,000 increases in homestead credit income limits were removed. HB1176 became law on 2025-05-03.
May 2, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted for HB1004, the public-health division budget of the Department of Health and Human Services, on 2023-02-21 and 2023-04-11. Its later House version listed $343,038,673 for 2023–2025, including $44,734,455 from the general fund and $55,120,000 for a public-health laboratory. General-fund funding rose $6,159,300 above the listed base budget. The House passed that version 79–12, and it became law on 2023-04-18. Voted against an earlier SB2012 human-services budget on 2023-04-20. Its main funding table proposed $5,105,090,509 for 2023-07-01 through 2025-06-30, including $1,881,769,143 from the general fund, $326,981,489 above the listed general-fund base budget. The House passed this version 60–32. She was absent from final passage of a later version on 2023-04-29. Voted on 2025-02-25 and 2025-05-01 for HB1012, the health and human services budget for 2025–2027. Its final department appropriation totaled about $5.79 billion, including $2.22 billion from the general fund, for health services, medical assistance, behavioral health, public health, and other department programs. The earlier House bill included $330 million for a new state hospital; the final bill removed that funding. HB1012 became law on 2025-05-16.
May 1, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-02-13 and 2025-02-25 for HB 1540 to fund education savings accounts for students outside public schools and the regular home-education program. The earlier versions proposed $40 million. She voted against the revised $21.7 million bill on 2025-04-21 and against reconsidering that passage on 2025-04-22. The revision tied payments to income: 35%, 20%, or 10% of the state per-student amount. The governor vetoed it on 2025-04-23. She voted to override the veto on 2025-04-25, but the override failed 45–48, so it did not become law.
April 25, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted on 2025-04-07 for SB 2112 to allow the Life Skills and Transition Center to serve North Dakota minors who did not qualify for developmental disability services. With required approvals, residential stays could last ninety days, with a ninety-day extension to help the child move to other care. The bill also required reports and a study of community alternatives. On 2025-04-24, she moved to adopt the conference report accepting the House version. It became law on 2025-04-30.
April 24, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-04-09 in committee and on 2025-04-11 in the House for SB 2387. It gave sexual violence survivors access to an advocate during forensic medical examinations, subject to timely availability, and made those communications confidential. It provided for privately retained counsel during police interviews, except forensic interviews with alleged child victims. Survivors received free access to police reports, subject to law, and written information about their rights at first contact. It became law on 2025-04-22.
April 11, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted against SB 2352 on 2025-03-26 to authorize children aged eighteen months or younger to live with their mothers at the Heart River correctional center under safety, stay-length, and treatment policies. On 2025-03-27, voted to reconsider its passage, but that motion failed. The bill became law on 2025-04-02.
March 26, 2025Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted against HB1553 on 2025-02-11. It proposed free breakfast and lunch for all students at participating public and nonpublic schools, replaced the existing school-meal policy section, and provided $140 million from Legacy Fund earnings for 2025–2027 meal grants. The House rejected it 14–75. Voted for HB1475 on 2025-02-24 to reimburse participating public, private and tribal schools for free breakfast and lunch for all students, with $140 million from the general fund. It also failed in the House. On 2026-01-22, voted against HB1624. That bill required public schools to offer free meals on request, allowed other schools to participate and provided $65 million from the strategic investment and improvements fund. The House passed it; the Senate rejected it on 2026-01-23.
February 24, 2025Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted on 2025-02-18 for HB1067, which extended in-home Medicaid waivers for children with extraordinary medical needs or autism to people under 21 who otherwise met institutional care requirements. It also required Social Security survivor income and court-ordered child support to be disregarded for children under 18 enrolled in specified Medicaid waivers, beginning 2026-07-01. The bill became law on 2025-03-19.
February 18, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored HB 1548 on 2025-01-20 and voted for it on 2025-02-06. It proposed $10 million from the state's strategic investment fund for a fitness center benefiting residents of the Life Skills and Transition Center. The House rejected it on 2025-02-06.
February 6, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted on 2024-11-19 to provide $50,000 for the Walsh County Childcare Center. She also seconded the proposal, which failed 2–3.
November 19, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Moved and voted on 2019-09-03 to combine Walsh, Pembina and Cavalier counties' social service agencies into the Northern Valley Human Service Zone, with Cavalier as the host county. Also voted for Walsh County to pay $14,405.02 in shared administration costs. Both motions passed unanimously. Voted on 2024-11-05 to pay Cavalier County $10,000 for two years of zone costs and $5,000 a year toward zone attorney costs. Both motions passed unanimously.
November 5, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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On 2023-02-17, supported HB1491’s $6 million free-meal program for public-school students at or below 200% of the federal poverty level. The House passed it 80–11; the Senate rejected it 23–24. On 2023-04-20, supported the same $6 million meal-program amendment and voted for that version of SB2284, which proposed a $40 million school construction loan-fund transfer. On 2023-04-28, supported the revised SB2284. It included nonpublic schools in the meal program, required a $75 million loan-fund transfer and raised school construction loan limits. The House passed it 77–15, and it became law on 2023-05-08.
April 28, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-21, voted against HB1540’s childcare package. On 2023-04-27, supported the revised package, which marked several grants as one-time funding. It spent $62.6 million from the general fund on childcare assistance and provider programs, plus $3 million for state-employee childcare benefits. It passed the House 63–27 and became law on 2023-04-28.
April 27, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-22, supported HB1447 to create an opioid-settlement fund, allocating 70% for opioid-use services and support, 20% for prevention and 10% for other remediation. On 2023-04-25, supported the revised bill, which removed that fixed split but retained a minimum 20% for prevention. It appropriated $8 million for treatment and prevention in 2023–2025, including fentanyl work. The House passed it 85–8, and it became law on 2023-04-29.
April 25, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the HB1025 Department of Veterans’ Affairs budget on 2023-04-25. Its main funding table provided $3,538,867 for 2023–2025, including $1,707,420 from the general fund. General-fund funding rose $136,796 above the listed base budget, and it added one staff position. The House passed it 90–0, and it became law on 2023-05-08.
April 25, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-21, voted for HB1536 to set foster-care placement preferences for Indian children. On 2023-04-25, supported a broader state Indian child-welfare law requiring active efforts to keep families together, tribal participation in court cases, and placement preferences for relatives and tribal homes. It passed the House 91–1 and became law on 2023-05-08.
April 25, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the HB1007 Veterans’ Home budget on 2023-04-25. It provided $28,982,973 for 2023–2025, including $6,009,999 from the general fund. General-fund funding rose $229,356 above the listed base budget. The House passed it 93–0, and it became law on 2023-04-28.
April 25, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1532 on 2023-02-21 and 2023-04-13, and to override its veto on 2023-04-25. Its final version provided $10 million for private-school tuition assistance to families below five times the federal poverty level, excluding home schools. Payments were capped at 30% of the state per-student rate. The veto stood after the House vote of 52–41.
April 25, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-03, supported SB2276 to create a disability advisory council and repeal the autism task force. On 2023-04-24, supported a revised version that kept the autism task force and added a pilot paying family caregivers for extraordinary care. It provided $2.5 million and covered up to 120 eligible Medicaid-waiver participants, excluding the aged-and-disabled waiver. The House passed it 92–0, and it became law on 2023-04-26.
April 24, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for SB2129 on 2023-04-17, adding $1 million for a program promoting childbirth instead of abortion through counseling, medical services and material assistance. It served pregnant women and families caring for babies up to twelve months old. The bill became law on 2023-04-28. The House vote on 2023-04-17 was 80–10.
April 17, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-17, voted against SB2087, which removed the TANF rule denying added assistance for a child conceived while the household received benefits. It also required a year off TANF before reusing the earned-income allowance. The bill failed in the House 14–76.
April 17, 2023Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-17, voted against SB2071, which directed the state to seek federal approval to raise pregnant women’s Medicaid income limit from 162% to 185% of the federal poverty level. The House rejected it 17–73.
April 17, 2023Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against SB2190 on 2023-04-17 to streamline child care assistance applications and waive fees for families at or below 30% of state median income. It allocated $500,000 for outreach and enrollment help. The House rejected the bill 12–78.
April 17, 2023Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-17, voted for SB2181 to seek federal approval for expanded pregnancy Medicaid coverage. The proposed expansion set the income ceiling at 175% of the federal poverty level instead of 162%. It included twelve months after pregnancy. The House passed it 87–3, and it became law on 2023-04-28.
April 17, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for SB2273 on 2023-03-21 and 2023-04-13, providing $1 million in state grants to preserve rural grocery stores and improve food access. The final version removed an earlier requirement for recipients to match each state dollar with nonstate funds. The bill became law on 2023-04-21. The House vote on 2023-04-13 was 80–10.
April 13, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1176 on 2023-04-12 to create a state adoption tax credit worth 10% of the federal credit. It also credited donations to maternity homes, child-placing agencies and pregnancy help centers. Each credit was capped at half the taxpayer's tax liability; the donation credit also had a $2,500 cap. The House passed the bill 88–1, and it became law on 2023-04-21.
April 12, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the SB2014 Protection and Advocacy Project budget on 2023-04-10. It provided $7,589,911 for 2023–2025, including $3,323,370 from the general fund. General-fund funding rose $184,020 above the listed base budget. The House passed it 88–2, and it became law on 2023-04-18.
April 10, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the SB2006 Tax Commissioner budget on 2023-04-10. It provided $70,089,404 for 2023–2025, including $69,964,404 from the general fund and funding for homestead and disabled-veteran tax credits. General-fund funding rose $5,723,088 above the listed base budget. The House passed it 81–9, and it became law on 2023-04-20.
April 10, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the HB1016 Job Service budget on 2023-04-06. Its main funding table listed $120,172,899 for 2023–2025, including $6,578,847 from the general fund and $45 million for unemployment-system upgrades. General-fund funding rose $6,168,618 above the listed base budget. The House passed it 77–15, and it became law on 2023-04-12.
April 6, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for SB2282 on 2023-04-05, setting nine-year deadlines for sexual-assault lawsuits and 21-year deadlines for childhood sexual-abuse claims, with the clock starting no earlier than age 15 for younger children. It also waived a notice deadline for such claims against the state. The bill became law on 2023-04-11. The House vote on 2023-04-05 was 56–33.
April 5, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-04, voted for SB2185, which provided $100,000 in state general funds for a pregnancy and parenting resource website, printed materials and billboards. The House rejected it 33–57.
April 4, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1494 on 2023-02-13 and 2023-04-04. It barred participating schools from denying standard school meals because of unpaid balances, except with written parental permission. It also barred shaming children, taking away meals, requiring work to repay debt or excluding children from activities because of meal debt. The bill became law on 2023-04-07. The House vote on 2023-04-04 was 90–1.
April 4, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-03, voted for HB1091 to create a certified foster-home category, normally limited to three children, and allow up to six months of nonfederal support for unlicensed relatives caring for children. The House passed it 90–0, and it became law on 2023-04-11.
April 3, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1244 on 2023-04-03 to raise an employer tax credit for hiring qualifying workers with developmental disabilities or severe mental illness. It covered 25% of their first $6,000 in annual wages. The credit was limited to half the taxpayer's tax liability and required vocational rehabilitation certification. The House passed the bill 90–0, and it became law on 2023-04-10.
April 3, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-03-21, voted for SB2202, which provided $250,000 in state general funds for domestic-violence forensic medical-examination grants and related administration. The House passed it 93–0, and it became law on 2023-03-27.
March 21, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1036 on 2023-02-22 to raise the maximum basic benefit standard for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. It set that standard at no less than half the federal poverty level for each household size. The House passed it 90–3, but the Senate rejected it 9–38.
February 22, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-21, voted for HB1533 to let courts dismiss abusive lawsuits brought to harass domestic-abuse survivors and require the abusive filer to pay the other party’s legal costs. The House passed it 91–3, and it became law on 2023-03-22.
February 21, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-20, voted for HB1530, which added Medicaid coverage for parent training in behavioral treatment and certain dental screening, case-management and remote dental services. The dental additions excluded Medicaid expansion. The House passed it 93–0, and it became law on 2023-04-12.
February 20, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-20, voted for HB1306, which provided $300,000 in state general funds for vouchers helping children ages 5–17 with dyslexia. The vouchers covered educational support after other available funding. The House passed it 93–0; the Senate rejected it 20–26.
February 20, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored HB 1534 on 2023-01-18 and voted for it on 2023-02-16. It treated a licensed, certified, or approved foster home as suitable for adoption and allowed its foster-care assessment to help show that suitability. It kept an adoption investigation, a criminal-background review, and a postplacement evaluation. The House passed it, but the Senate rejected it on 2023-03-30.
February 16, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against HB1396 on 2023-02-10 to require temporary Medicaid eligibility rules for children under 19 and pregnant applicants while their eligibility was being determined. The House rejected the bill 12–78.
February 10, 2023Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against HB1518 on 2023-02-07, adding rights for sexual-assault survivors, including evidence preservation, free forensic exams, access to reports and an attorney or counselor during police interviews. The bill failed in the House, 28–66.
February 7, 2023Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
Source: ndlegis.gov
Proposed and voted on 2022-01-04 to approve a three year contract with Agassiz Associates for mental health and addiction treatment at the Walsh County Jail. All five commissioners voted yes.
January 4, 2022Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Proposed and voted on 2021-10-06 to approve an agreement with Pembina County to share the cost of transportation for disabled Walsh County veterans. The county payments were capped at $100 a week. All five commissioners voted yes.
October 6, 2021Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Moved and voted on 2019-06-18 to provide $15,000 toward a child protective services intake worker shared by seven counties. The motion passed unanimously.
June 18, 2019Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Public Education Quality · 22 support · 1 oppose

Voted on 2025-10-21 to recommend a draft requiring the Presidential Physical Fitness Test in school physical education. Voted on 2026-01-22 for HB1621 to require the presidential physical fitness test in elementary, middle and high school physical education. It allowed the state school superintendent to set exceptions and specified a 2027-08-01 start date. It became law on 2026-01-23.
January 22, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against SB 2213 on 2025-04-10 to set mathematics-teaching, curriculum, training, assessment, and student-support rules with $1.2 million in state funding. On 2025-04-24, voted for the revised bill, which kept those rules, raised funding to $1.5 million, and added a screening pilot for grades four through eight. It also set a 2027-07-01 start for elementary-teacher competency and early-grade screening requirements. It became law on 2025-05-01.
April 24, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: legiscan.com
Moved on 2025-02-03 to reconsider HB1358, which had failed on 2025-01-31. That bill proposed state-funded public charter schools, with up to twelve schools in 2025–27 and fifteen in 2027–29, an initial three-year agreement, and no local tax funding or tuition. Her reconsideration motion failed; she had been absent from the earlier passage vote. Voted on 2025-04-08 for SB2241's revised public charter school plan, with agreements approved by the state superintendent and an initial five-year term. It funded schools using the previous year's statewide average per-student aid, required licensed teachers and regular financial audits, and barred tuition and religious practices. Schools had to teach in person and use fair enrollment rules, with a lottery when applications exceeded space. SB2241 became law on 2025-04-21.
April 8, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2023-10-25 for SB2398 to provide $3 million more in school funding and slow the reduction of transition funding for qualifying districts. It also raised the school construction loan limit from $2 million to $5 million and temporarily allowed loans for unexpected construction inflation. It became law on 2023-10-25.
October 25, 2023Supports Public Education Quality
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2023-10-24 for HB1544 to provide $500,000 in workforce grants for a tribal college in the Turtle Mountain area and $2 million for the Office of Legal Immigration. It also required a Clean Sustainable Energy Authority recommendation before development-fund financing of qualifying energy projects. On 2023-10-25, the governor signed the funding provisions and vetoed that recommendation requirement.
October 24, 2023Supports Public Education Quality
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2023-10-24 for HB1543 to provide $8.25 million for a Badlands-region behavioral health facility, with a matching-funds requirement and an alternative community-clinic use if no recipient was secured. It provided $26.5 million for rising career-center construction costs and $8.5 million more for Bismarck State College's academic and athletic center. It allowed up to $40 million in revenue bonds for that college project. It became law on 2023-10-25.
October 24, 2023Supports Public Education Quality
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the revised HB1019 career and technical education budget on 2023-04-28, after voting against an earlier conference proposal on 2023-04-25. The final main funding table listed $66,181,828 for 2023-07-01 through 2025-06-30, including $51,200,708 from the general fund, $9,465,645 above the listed general-fund base budget. The House passed it 88–3, and it became law on 2023-05-06.
April 28, 2023Supports Public Education Quality
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the SB2013 public-school, library and specialized-school budget on 2023-04-28. Its main funding table listed $2,880,325,887 for 2023-07-01 through 2025-06-30, including $1,742,394,946 from the general fund, $66,197,917 above the listed general-fund base budget. The House passed it 73–17, and it became law on 2023-05-08.
April 28, 2023Supports Public Education Quality
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-17, supported HB1491’s $6 million free-meal program for public-school students at or below 200% of the federal poverty level. The House passed it 80–11; the Senate rejected it 23–24. On 2023-04-20, supported the same $6 million meal-program amendment and voted for that version of SB2284, which proposed a $40 million school construction loan-fund transfer. On 2023-04-28, supported the revised SB2284. It included nonpublic schools in the meal program, required a $75 million loan-fund transfer and raised school construction loan limits. The House passed it 77–15, and it became law on 2023-05-08.
April 28, 2023Supports Public Education Quality
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the HB1003 university-system budget on 2023-04-26. Its main funding table listed $3,285,017,273 through 2025-06-30, including $849,243,766 from the general fund, $162,915,240 above the listed general-fund base budget. The House passed it 69–23, and it became law on 2023-05-08.
April 26, 2023Supports Public Education Quality
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1231 on 2023-02-16 and 2023-04-25. Both versions required dyslexia screening for enrolled children seven and younger, plus assessments requested by parents, guardians or teachers. The later version narrowed reading-instruction competency requirements for initial teaching licenses to early childhood and elementary education and added a literacy task force. The House passed the final version 88–5, and it became law on 2023-05-06.
April 25, 2023Supports Public Education Quality
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the HB1013 state-lands budget on 2023-04-25. It provided $14,342,415 for administration in 2023–2025, $5,539,416 above the listed base budget, and separately distributed $528,301,900 from permanent funds to schools and other state institutions. The House passed it 89–4, and it became law on 2023-04-28.
April 25, 2023Supports Public Education Quality
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-07, voted for SB2032 to spend $3 million from the general fund on helping school paraprofessionals become qualified teachers. Grants covered tuition and scholarships, with limited college startup costs. The House passed it 80–7, and it became law on 2023-04-13.
April 7, 2023Supports Public Education Quality
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-07, voted against SB2033, which provided $3 million in state general funds for teacher-shortage student-loan forgiveness, including up to $5,000 a year for selected rural shortage positions. The House rejected it 7–80.
April 7, 2023Opposes Public Education Quality
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-06, voted for HB1030 to expand dual-credit tuition scholarships to qualifying courses from private and tribal colleges. It replaced the percentage-of-cost award with $250 for one completed course, $500 for two, or $750 for three or more. The House passed it 91–1, and it became law on 2023-04-12.
April 6, 2023Supports Public Education Quality
Source: ndlegis.gov
Chief-sponsored HB 1265 on 2023-01-11 and voted for its final version on 2023-04-04. The bill required school health lessons to include fetal-development videos: at least three minutes of ultrasound footage and an animation showing development through each week of pregnancy. It also applied to schools offering sex education. The first proposal called for five minutes of ultrasound footage in life science classes. The final bill added these requirements to state health standards. The governor signed it on 2023-04-06.
April 4, 2023Supports Public Education Quality
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1494 on 2023-02-13 and 2023-04-04. It barred participating schools from denying standard school meals because of unpaid balances, except with written parental permission. It also barred shaming children, taking away meals, requiring work to repay debt or excluding children from activities because of meal debt. The bill became law on 2023-04-07. The House vote on 2023-04-04 was 90–1.
April 4, 2023Supports Public Education Quality
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-03-31, voted for SB2254, which required state intervention in chronically low-performing public schools and districts. Improvement plans included control over spending and changes to curriculum or staffing. The House passed it 81–7, and it became law on 2023-04-21.
March 31, 2023Supports Public Education Quality
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-03-23, voted for SB2340, which allowed districts unable to hire enough trained school counselors to use other licensed mental-health professionals to meet counselor requirements. The House rejected it 40–48.
March 23, 2023Supports Public Education Quality
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-20, voted for HB1306, which provided $300,000 in state general funds for vouchers helping children ages 5–17 with dyslexia. The vouchers covered educational support after other available funding. The House passed it 93–0; the Senate rejected it 20–26.
February 20, 2023Supports Public Education Quality
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-16, voted for HB1398 to require computer-science and cybersecurity instruction in schools. From 2025-08-01, graduation required a related course or completion of a school-approved integration plan. It also authorized up to $300,000 in adult-learning grants. The House passed it 81–11, and it became law on 2023-03-24.
February 16, 2023Supports Public Education Quality
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-10, voted for HB1312, which continued online mental-health and suicide-prevention training for school staff through 2027-06-30. The House passed it 83–7, and it became law on 2023-03-27.
February 10, 2023Supports Public Education Quality
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-01-18, voted for HB1131, which let students who had not shown proficiency under standards-based grading seek an alternative high-school curriculum after two years, with written parental consent. The House passed it 91–0, and it became law on 2023-03-15.
January 18, 2023Supports Public Education Quality
Source: ndlegis.gov

Gun Control · 2 support · 12 oppose

Co-sponsored HB1296 on 2025-01-13, then voted against it on 2025-02-25. It proposed requiring concealed-firearm disclosure only when an officer asked, with a $20 noncriminal penalty. The House rejected it. Voted on 2025-02-25 for both divisions of HB1588, then against the combined bill. Division A changed weapon definitions, civil liability, school and university restrictions, penalties, and police notification. Division B let local governments ban weapons in public buildings and made using a binary trigger during a crime a felony. Voted on 2025-04-15 for the revised bill. It let people carrying without a concealed-carry license disclose their gun when police asked. Violating the notification and identification rules carried a $20 fee. Prohibited-gathering violations changed from an infraction to a $100 noncriminal offense. It also raised the knife-blade threshold from five to six inches, expanded specified officials’ carry exceptions, and raised the maximum concealed-carry testing charge from $50 to $100. The final bill omitted the broad civil immunity and binary-trigger provisions. It became law on 2025-04-21.
April 15, 2025Opposes Gun Control
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Voted on 2025-02-25 for HB1365 to allow licensed concealed carry in public areas of public buildings. A building could ban it only by excluding all licensed concealed carriers and using a weapon detector and armed security. Nonpublic areas and specified university buildings remained restricted. The House rejected the bill that day.
February 25, 2025Opposes Gun Control
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Voted on 2025-02-25 for HB1352, which proposed removing churches and other places of worship from the state’s general ban on carrying firearms or dangerous weapons at specified gatherings. It also removed the existing exception that required a concealed-carry authorization and approval from the religious leader or governing body. The House rejected the bill that day.
February 25, 2025Opposes Gun Control
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Voted for House Bill 1411, a bill to ban red flag gun orders across North Dakota. The North Dakota House rejected it 39-53, so it did not become law.
February 25, 2025Opposes Gun Control
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Voted on 2025-02-17 for HB1301, which proposed limiting court orders barring firearms and other weapons during probation for nonviolent misdemeanors and infractions. Listed assault, stalking, and domestic-violence offenses were exceptions. The House rejected the bill that day.
February 17, 2025Opposes Gun Control
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Voted on 2023-02-20 against replacing a proposal allowing weapons at the state capitol with a study of firearm restrictions. After that change passed, voted for the study on 2023-02-20 and 2023-04-25. The study bill became law on 2023-04-29. The House vote on 2023-04-25 was 93–0.
April 25, 2023Opposes Gun Control
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Voted for HB1487 on 2023-02-16 and 2023-04-24. Its final version barred financial firms from requiring a separate firearms retailer code or blocking lawful card purchases solely because of that code. It also barred actions intended to suppress or track lawful firearm sales, while preserving fraud prevention and legal compliance. The bill became law on 2023-04-29. The House vote on 2023-04-24 was 81–10.
April 24, 2023Opposes Gun Control
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Voted against HB1194 on 2023-02-20, allowing honorably discharged military personnel with a Class 1 concealed-weapon license to carry firearms at public gatherings otherwise covered by state restrictions. The bill failed, 26–67.
February 20, 2023Supports Gun Control
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Voted for HB1483 on 2023-02-20, removing the state ban on firearms in liquor establishments and narrowing restrictions in public buildings to federal buildings that prohibit guns and spaces occupied by courts. The bill failed, 32–61.
February 20, 2023Opposes Gun Control
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Voted for HB1339 on 2023-02-20. It expanded concealed carry without a weapon license to eligible people with valid identification from another state or territory and removed the requirement to hold that identification for 30 days. The bill became law on 2023-04-11. The House vote on 2023-02-20 was 93–0.
February 20, 2023Opposes Gun Control
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Voted for HB1350 on 2023-02-20. It limited mandatory prison terms for specified armed drug offenses to people already barred from possessing firearms, added definitions covering direct possession and accessible items under a person’s intended control, and extended firearm bans to equivalent out-of-state and federal convictions. The bill became law on 2023-04-11. The House vote on 2023-02-20 was 93–0.
February 20, 2023Supports Gun Control
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Voted for HB1404 on 2023-02-20, preventing state colleges and universities from banning authorized concealed firearms on campuses and in campus buildings. The bill failed, 32–61.
February 20, 2023Opposes Gun Control
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Voted for HB1340 on 2023-02-20, blocking firearm-specific local zoning rules and other local gun restrictions stricter than state law. General business rules applying equally to businesses remained allowed. The bill became law on 2023-04-11. The House vote on 2023-02-20 was 83–10.
February 20, 2023Opposes Gun Control
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Voted on 2021-08-03 to adopt a resolution declaring Walsh County a Second Amendment Advocate and opposing unconstitutional restrictions on gun ownership. She also seconded the proposal. All five commissioners voted yes.
August 3, 2021Opposes Gun Control
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Women's Reproductive Rights · 3 support · 7 oppose

Voted on 2025-02-24 and 2025-04-09 for HB 1511 to fund and require review of state abortion-law instruction. The first version required abortion providers to review it within one year and obstetrics physicians to complete a course for licensing. The final version required abortion providers to review it within two years, except in medical emergencies, and required the medical board to post the course online. It provided $50,000 to develop the course, with attorney general approval. It became law on 2025-04-16, with the course-review rules specified to begin on 2026-01-01.
April 9, 2025Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
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Voted against HB 1488 on 2025-02-12. It proposed allowing abortions through fifteen weeks under specified provider, facility, and consent rules. Later abortions required approval by a hospital committee of three physicians, with medical-purpose rules and a medical-emergency exception. The bill also proposed changing consent, reporting, and other abortion restrictions. The House rejected it 6–87, so it did not become law.
February 12, 2025Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
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Voted against House Bill 1478, a bill to write a right to birth control into state law. The North Dakota House rejected it 27-66, so it did not become law.
February 12, 2025Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
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Voted against House Bill 1477, a bill to write a right to fertility treatment into state law. The North Dakota House rejected it 34-59, so it did not become law.
February 12, 2025Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
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On 2023-04-17, voted against SB2071, which directed the state to seek federal approval to raise pregnant women’s Medicaid income limit from 162% to 185% of the federal poverty level. The House rejected it 17–73.
April 17, 2023Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
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Voted for SB2150 on 2023-04-17, making most abortions a felony for the person performing them, not the pregnant woman. Exceptions covered preventing death or serious physical harm and pregnancies from specified sexual crimes or incest at six weeks or less. The bill became law on 2023-04-24. The House vote on 2023-04-17 was 76–14.
April 17, 2023Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
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On 2023-04-17, voted for SB2181 to seek federal approval for expanded pregnancy Medicaid coverage. The proposed expansion set the income ceiling at 175% of the federal poverty level instead of 162%. It included twelve months after pregnancy. The House passed it 87–3, and it became law on 2023-04-28.
April 17, 2023Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
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Voted against HB1396 on 2023-02-10 to require temporary Medicaid eligibility rules for children under 19 and pregnant applicants while their eligibility was being determined. The House rejected the bill 12–78.
February 10, 2023Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
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Voted for HB1140 on 2023-02-02, making it a felony for a health care provider to inseminate someone with a donor’s reproductive material while knowing the recipient had not consented to that donor. The bill became law on 2023-04-04. The House vote on 2023-02-02 was 93–0.
February 2, 2023Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
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Co-sponsored HB 1171 on 2023-01-09 and voted for it on 2023-01-18. It made forcing or coercing a woman to have an abortion against her will a Class C felony. The crime required physical harm, an attempt, or a threat intended to compel the abortion; protected speech and general statements about lawful pregnancy options were excluded. At the victim's request, police had to give her at least 24 hours' notice before first contacting the accused person. The governor signed it on 2023-04-11.
January 18, 2023Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
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Election Integrity · 14 support · 4 oppose

Voted on 2025-01-28 and 2025-04-21 for HB1165, an election administration bill. The later version required ordinary absentee and mail ballots to arrive by poll closing on election day. Military and overseas voters kept a later receipt exception if they sent ballots on time. It also banned private entities from administering elections, moved legislative write-in filing from four to twenty-one days before an election, and added a fifteen-business-day deadline for final petition packets. It became law on 2025-04-28.
April 21, 2025Supports Election Integrity
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Voted on 2025-04-10 for SB2230, which provided $600,000 from the general fund for objective ballot-measure summaries and fiscal information. The secretary of state had to distribute materials to active voters at least 45 days before statewide elections and post them at voting locations. The requirements expired after 2027-06-30. The bill became law on 2025-04-22.
April 10, 2025Supports Election Integrity
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Voted on 2025-03-13 for SB2175, which required postelection audits at one randomly selected polling location in each county after statewide primary, general, and special elections. Election boards reviewed federal, statewide, county, and applicable legislative contests between the sixth and eighth days after election day. The secretary of state could order further audits after discrepancies and had to publish results. The bill became law on 2025-03-19.
March 13, 2025Supports Election Integrity
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Voted for House Bill 1583, a bill to widen the crime of running a false political ad to reckless disregard for the truth. The North Dakota House passed it 55-34, but the Senate rejected it 11-36 and it did not become law.
February 18, 2025Supports Election Integrity
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Voted on 2025-02-17 against HB1587 to require newer federal voting-system certification, current security patches and earlier testing. It also allowed district-party source-code audits and required complete hand-count audits after elections using voting systems. Systems that failed specified security or testing requirements could not tabulate ballots. The House rejected the bill that day.
February 17, 2025Opposes Election Integrity
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Voted against revised HB1230 on 2023-04-11 after voting for an earlier version on 2023-02-14. The revised bill penalized willfully submitting initiative or referendum petitions with fraudulent signatures, including civil penalties up to $3,000 for committee members or their agents. The House passed it 53–38, and it became law on 2023-04-18.
April 11, 2023Opposes Election Integrity
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Voted for the SB2002 secretary-of-state and public-printing budget on 2023-04-10. It provided $24,874,199 for 2023–2025, including $7,042,124 from the general fund and $5 million for an election-management system. General-fund funding rose $1,520,572 above the listed base budget. The House passed it 86–4, and it became law on 2023-04-20.
April 10, 2023Supports Election Integrity
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On 2023-04-04, voted for HB1257, which required school-board candidates in districts with at least 1,000 students to disclose campaign contributions. The House passed it 88–3, and it became law on 2023-04-06. Also supported the related HB1116 proposal on 2023-01-23, which exempted districts with fewer than 5,000 residents; it failed in the Senate.
April 4, 2023Supports Election Integrity
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Voted for HB1431 on 2023-01-30 and 2023-04-04. Its final version set aside ballots from voters whose state identification marked them as noncitizens until they supplied an updated state ID without that marking, before the vote-count review 13 days after the election. Existing court-agreement exceptions remained. The bill became law on 2023-04-06. The House vote on 2023-04-04 was 91–0.
April 4, 2023Supports Election Integrity
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Voted for SB2163 on 2023-03-16, requiring plain, clear language with everyday words in summaries and explanations of ballot measures. The bill became law on 2023-03-22. The House vote on 2023-03-16 was 84–9.
March 16, 2023Supports Election Integrity
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Voted for SB2292 on 2023-03-15, making disturbances at polling places an election offense and protecting election systems against damage to their security or availability. It required observer locations with a clear view and hearing of polling-place activity while protecting voter privacy. The bill became law on 2023-03-22. The House vote on 2023-03-15 was 92–1.
March 15, 2023Supports Election Integrity
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Voted against SB2226 on 2023-03-13, requiring proposed constitutional amendments to show the full text of changed sections, with additions and deletions marked. It also required full ballot text for amendments up to 500 words and summaries for longer ones. The bill failed, 6–87.
March 13, 2023Opposes Election Integrity
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Voted for HB1500 on 2023-02-15 to require certain political spenders to trace and disclose original donors behind funds exceeding $200 and name their top three donors in political ads. It included donor opt-outs and penalties for evading disclosure. The House rejected the bill 42–51.
February 15, 2023Supports Election Integrity
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Voted for HB1318 on 2023-02-10 to require newly naturalized citizens with noncitizen identification cards or driver’s licenses to update their citizenship status within 45 days. It required written notices and reporting updated information to the secretary of state. The House passed the bill 90–0, and it became law on 2023-04-04.
February 10, 2023Supports Election Integrity
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Co-sponsored HB 1467 on 2023-01-18 and voted for it on 2023-02-07. It required the state auditor to randomly choose two counties after each primary and general election and conduct a full manual recount of their ballots across all races. The audit results had to be published within 90 days. The House rejected it on 2023-02-07.
February 7, 2023Supports Election Integrity
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Voted for HB1192 on 2023-01-31, giving absentee voters until the canvassing meeting 13 days after an election to confirm questioned signatures. It also allowed mailed ballots to be scanned three business days before election day without releasing results before polls closed. The bill became law on 2023-03-27. The House vote on 2023-01-31 was 87–4.
January 31, 2023Supports Election Integrity
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Voted against HB1314 on 2023-01-30. Its posted text required designated ballot drop boxes to remain secure under local election officials’ control, with daily collection and a 5 p.m. deadline the day before an election. The bill failed, 33–61.
January 30, 2023Opposes Election Integrity
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Voted for HB1320 on 2023-01-30, extending the required storage of election ballots to 25 months. The bill failed, 28–66.
January 30, 2023Supports Election Integrity
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Limit Foreign Influence · 2 support

On 2023-04-26, voted for SB2371 to ban new property purchases and local development by specified foreign adversaries, with exceptions including established businesses holding federal security approval. The House passed it 83–8, and it became law on 2023-04-29. Its restrictions were set to expire on 2025-07-31.
April 26, 2023Supports Limit Foreign Influence
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On 2023-02-21, voted for HB1503, which required state security reviews and permits for certain businesses and assets controlled by foreign adversaries, with exceptions for established or federally approved businesses. The House passed it 93–0; the Senate rejected it 2–45.
February 21, 2023Supports Limit Foreign Influence
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Personal Income Tax Reduction · 6 support · 1 oppose

Voted for HB1158 on 2023-02-21 and 2023-04-26. Its final version set state income tax rates at 0%, 1.95% and 2.5%, created a $500 primary-home property tax credit for 2024 and 2025, expanded relief for older or disabled homeowners, and provided $158,225,000 for property tax relief and administration. It became law on 2023-04-27. Voted on 2025-02-11 for SB2201 to clarify credit eligibility for life estates, qualifying trusts and contracts for deed, including certain care-facility absences; it became law on 2025-02-18. Voted on 2025-02-25 for HB1266 to raise the taxable home value covered by the disabled veterans' credit from $8,100 to $9,000 and change credit calculations for co-owners outside the immediate family; the Senate rejected it on 2025-04-15. On 2025-02-25, supported HB1168: a main school property tax levy limit of 50 mills instead of 70, a separate 10-mill levy and 3% growth limits for other local levies, with exceptions. Also supported HB1176's proposed $1,450 primary residence credit. On 2025-05-02, voted against a replacement HB1168 that proposed a $1,000 credit and $295 million for it; the House rejected that bill. Voted on 2025-05-02 for final HB1176. It raised the primary residence credit to $1,600, provided $408.9 million from the Legacy property tax relief fund, raised the maximum qualifying renter refund from $400 to $600, and retained the $9,000 veterans' credit and co-ownership changes. It limited growth in local levy dollars to 3%, with exceptions for new property and certain levies, five years of unused increases, and voter approval for larger levies. It increased the Legacy Fund distribution from 7% to 8% of its five-year average value and split money remaining after debt service 30% for highways and 70% for property tax relief. Earlier proposed $10,000 increases in homestead credit income limits were removed. HB1176 became law on 2025-05-03.
May 2, 2025Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
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Co-sponsored HB 1388 on 2025-01-13 and voted for it on 2025-02-24. It proposed zero state income-tax brackets of $48,475 for single filers and $96,950 for married couples filing jointly. It also changed other income brackets, put married separate filers on the single-filer schedule, and repealed the marriage-penalty tax credit. The House passed it, but the Senate rejected it on 2025-03-25.
February 24, 2025Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
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Voted on 2025-01-27 for HB1244, which proposed providing a home-education income tax credit for qualified expenses of dependent children under 19. The credit was capped at $1,000 per child, or $500 for married taxpayers filing separately, and could not exceed the taxpayer’s income tax liability. The House passed it, but the Senate rejected it on 2025-02-25.
January 27, 2025Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
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Co-sponsored HB 1107 on 2025-01-07 and voted for it on 2025-01-10. It proposed a state income-tax deduction for an AmeriCorps education award included in the recipient's federal taxable income. The House passed it, but the Senate rejected it on 2025-03-07.
January 10, 2025Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
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Voted on 2023-10-23 to allow HB1549 to be introduced, then voted for it on 2023-10-24. The proposal raised zero-rate income tax brackets to $60,000 for single filers and $100,000 for joint filers. The head-of-household bracket rose to $80,000, with smaller increases for separate filers and estates or trusts. The Senate rejected it on 2023-10-25.
October 24, 2023Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
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On 2023-04-26, voted against SB2066, which offered a one-year $500 primary-residence property-tax credit and a 1.99% income-tax rate above specified income thresholds. It also tied later income-tax rate cuts to higher-than-projected state revenues. The bill failed in the House 20–72.
April 26, 2023Opposes Personal Income Tax Reduction
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Voted for HB1176 on 2023-04-12 to create a state adoption tax credit worth 10% of the federal credit. It also credited donations to maternity homes, child-placing agencies and pregnancy help centers. Each credit was capped at half the taxpayer's tax liability; the donation credit also had a $2,500 cap. The House passed the bill 88–1, and it became law on 2023-04-21.
April 12, 2023Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
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Data Privacy · 12 support · 2 oppose

Voted on 2025-02-03 for HB 1351 to create criminal penalties and civil claims for sexually explicit deepfake images, including sex-offender registration provisions. On 2025-04-14, she voted for a replacement that added altered and computer-generated images to existing rules on sexually expressive images and added civil remedies for harmed people. Those remedies included damages, recovery of the offender's gains, and possible legal fees and court orders. The replacement omitted the earlier registration changes. It became law on 2025-04-21.
April 14, 2025Supports Data Privacy
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Voted on 2025-04-09 in committee and on 2025-04-11 in the House for SB 2387. It gave sexual violence survivors access to an advocate during forensic medical examinations, subject to timely availability, and made those communications confidential. It provided for privately retained counsel during police interviews, except forensic interviews with alleged child victims. Survivors received free access to police reports, subject to law, and written information about their rights at first contact. It became law on 2025-04-22.
April 11, 2025Supports Data Privacy
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Co-sponsored HB 1450 on 2025-01-16 and voted for it on 2025-02-20. It gave a parent or guardian access to a child's medical examination room and required written notice before standardized questions, including information on declining unrelated questions and sharing answers. It exempted legally independent minors and documented suspected physical or sexual abuse reported to authorities. The House passed it, but the Senate rejected it on 2025-04-10.
February 20, 2025Supports Data Privacy
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Co-sponsored HB 1519 on 2025-01-20 and voted for it on 2025-02-20. It required the state health department to link death and vaccination records and publish quarterly summaries of deaths occurring at specified intervals after vaccination. The reports covered vaccine types administered to more than 20,000 people in the previous quarter. The bill restricted redaction unless the department was notified of a privacy issue. The House rejected it on 2025-02-20.
February 20, 2025Opposes Data Privacy
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Co-sponsored HB 1593 on 2025-01-20 and voted for it on 2025-02-17. It required websites providing sexual material harmful to minors to verify age and block access by minors. It proposed a $10,000 daily fine and civil lawsuits for violations. It also required anonymous age checks without retaining users' identity data or records of their online activity. The House rejected it on 2025-02-17.
February 17, 2025Supports Data Privacy
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Co-sponsored HB 1357 on 2025-01-13 and voted for it on 2025-02-06. It required school districts to sign student-data sharing agreements with the Department of Public Instruction under state and federal privacy laws. Having an agreement became a condition of school approval, and the department became an authorized representative for the state's education data system. The governor signed it on 2025-03-14.
February 6, 2025Supports Data Privacy
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Voted for SB2260 on 2023-04-25, protecting parents’ control over their children’s upbringing and giving parents access to school records and curriculum. It allowed opting children out of instruction or data collection and barred schools from requiring pronouns inconsistent with a child’s sex. The bill failed, 39–51.
April 25, 2023Supports Data Privacy
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Voted for HB1487 on 2023-02-16 and 2023-04-24. Its final version barred financial firms from requiring a separate firearms retailer code or blocking lawful card purchases solely because of that code. It also barred actions intended to suppress or track lawful firearm sales, while preserving fraud prevention and legal compliance. The bill became law on 2023-04-29. The House vote on 2023-04-24 was 81–10.
April 24, 2023Supports Data Privacy
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On 2023-04-10, voted for SB2274, which continued limits on requiring COVID-19 vaccination documents and extended them to vaccines under federal emergency authorization. Health-care, correctional and emergency exceptions remained. The House passed it 87–3, and it became law on 2023-04-18.
April 10, 2023Supports Data Privacy
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Voted for SB2043 on 2023-03-20 to authorize warrants for electronic message contents and sender or recipient location information. It extended warrant validity from 24 hours to 10 days and allowed extensions up to 30 days when requested information had not been produced. The House passed the bill 91–1, and it became law on 2023-03-27.
March 20, 2023Opposes Data Privacy
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Voted for SB2232 on 2023-03-20 to exempt descriptions of crime-scene images involving minors and statements about the subject of closed attorney consultations from public records disclosure. It also required meeting notices on public entities’ websites when they had one. The House passed the bill 85–7, and it became law on 2023-03-27.
March 20, 2023Supports Data Privacy
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Voted for SB2292 on 2023-03-15, making disturbances at polling places an election offense and protecting election systems against damage to their security or availability. It required observer locations with a clear view and hearing of polling-place activity while protecting voter privacy. The bill became law on 2023-03-22. The House vote on 2023-03-15 was 92–1.
March 15, 2023Supports Data Privacy
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On 2023-03-07, voted for SB2041 to give people harmed by nonconsensual sharing, or threats to share, private intimate images a civil lawsuit for damages and legal costs. It included exceptions for specified legitimate disclosures and protections for the plaintiff’s identity. The House passed it 90–2, and it became law on 2023-03-14.
March 7, 2023Supports Data Privacy
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Voted against HB1198 on 2023-02-08 to require most people requesting copies of public records to give their name, address, and contact information. Crime victims seeking related criminal records were exempt. The House rejected the bill 7–86.
February 8, 2023Supports Data Privacy
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Civil Rights · 16 support · 18 oppose

Voted for SB 2404 on 2026-01-23 to fund $1.5 million in state website and digital-content changes for disability access and $325,000 for the Public Service Commission’s work in federal lawsuits. It also allowed the commission to use existing loan authority if that legal funding was not enough. It became law on 2026-01-23.
January 23, 2026Supports Civil Rights
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Voted for HB1522 on 2023-02-22 and 2023-04-25. Its final version required students to use restrooms matching their biological sex and parent-approved separate arrangements for transgender students. It barred required or prohibited preferred-pronoun use and schools hiding students’ transgender status from parents, subject to legal exceptions. It became law on 2023-05-08. On 2023-10-24, voted against allowing enforcement proposal 23.1202.01000 to be introduced. It proposed attorney general investigations, subpoenas, injunctions and civil penalties up to $2,500 per violation; the introduction motion failed. On 2025-02-07 and 2025-04-28, supported HB1144 to strengthen enforcement of the school rules. It allowed parent complaints, attorney general investigations, court orders and civil penalties up to $2,500 per violation. The final bill required parents to complain to the district first. It barred new shared multi-stall gender-neutral restrooms, exempted those existing on 2025-07-01 and included disability-law and school-event exceptions. It became law on 2025-05-01.
April 28, 2025Opposes Civil Rights
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- February 3, 2025 · Chief-sponsored HB 1522 on 2025-01-20 and voted for it on 2025-02-03. It allowed cities to authorize daytime golf-cart travel on city streets beyond trips between home and a golf course. It kept the nighttime ban and the restriction on federal, state, and county highways except for crossing them. The governor signed it on 2025-03-21. (General)
Co-sponsored SB 2199 on 2023-01-10. It proposed defining sex and gender references by sex determined at birth, using DNA to settle disputes, and a $1,500 penalty for violations in state-funded entities. The Senate rejected it on 2023-01-20. Co-sponsored HB 1181 on 2025-01-07 and voted for it on 2025-02-20 and 2025-04-17. The first House version applied its definition to public-school and state-agency policies and materials. The final law specified that words referring to a person's gender meant that person's sex; it omitted the earlier public-policy scope, DNA rule, and penalty. The governor signed it on 2025-04-23. Moved the HB1181 state-records amendment on 2025-02-17; it passed 13–0. Then moved a do-pass-as-amended recommendation, which passed 11–2, and carried the bill.
April 17, 2025Opposes Civil Rights
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Voted on 2025-02-25 against HB1424, which proposed barring other candidates from a party's primary ballot once that party endorsed a candidate for the office. It added a complaint and investigation process for district endorsement caucuses and preserved an independent route to general and special election ballots. The House rejected the bill that day.
February 25, 2025Supports Civil Rights
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Co-sponsored HB 1430 on 2025-01-13 and voted for its House version on 2025-02-24. It made conversion therapy an ethical violation for social workers while protecting counseling for people seeking to align sexuality or gender with personal or spiritual beliefs. That version required disclosure, consent, and respect for the person's own choices. The Senate version expressly barred such counseling from trying to change sexual orientation or gender identity. The Senate rejected that version on 2025-03-27.
February 24, 2025Supports Civil Rights
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Co-sponsored HCR 3013 on 2025-01-29 and voted for it on 2025-02-24. The resolution urged the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges and let states regulate marriage as a union of one man and one woman based on sex at birth. The Senate rejected the resolution on 2025-03-13.
February 24, 2025Opposes Civil Rights
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On 2023-02-01, supported a committee do-not-pass recommendation for HB1281. Voted against HB1281 on 2023-02-06 and HB1217 on 2025-02-19. Both repealed the specific class A felony for knowingly having HIV or AIDS and willfully transferring specified body fluids through sexual contact or an unsterilized syringe or similar device. The repealed law included a defense for informed, consenting adults who used an appropriate protective device during sexual activity. HB1281 failed in the House, 18–75. HB1217 passed, 50–43, and became law on 2025-03-19.
February 19, 2025Opposes Civil Rights
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Voted against House Bill 1455, a bill to make the state consult tribes about bills that affect them. The North Dakota House passed it 63-28, but the Senate rejected it 7-40 and it did not become law.
February 18, 2025Opposes Civil Rights
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Voted for House Bill 1145, a bill to require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public schools and colleges. The North Dakota House rejected it 38-53, so it did not become law.
February 12, 2025Opposes Civil Rights
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Requested a recorded vote and voted on 2023-10-25 for SCR4021 to affirm support for Israel's security and right to defend itself. It backed Israel's effort to eliminate Hamas without interference or condemnation and called for United States assistance. It urged protection against crimes and unlawful discrimination targeting Jewish and Israeli Americans and supporters of Israel. Both chambers adopted the nonbinding resolution.
October 25, 2023Supports Civil Rights
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1474 on 2023-02-17 and 2023-04-25, defining male and female in state law by reproductive biology and sex by physical traits at birth. Its final version also changed sex definitions in the new laws on birth records, school and college sports, and medical treatment for minors. The bill became law on 2023-05-08. The House vote on 2023-04-25 was 75–15.
April 25, 2023Opposes Civil Rights
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-21, voted for HB1536 to set foster-care placement preferences for Indian children. On 2023-04-25, supported a broader state Indian child-welfare law requiring active efforts to keep families together, tribal participation in court cases, and placement preferences for relatives and tribal homes. It passed the House 91–1 and became law on 2023-05-08.
April 25, 2023Supports Civil Rights
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1297 on 2023-02-17 and 2023-04-25 to prohibit changing a birth certificate’s sex designation solely because of gender identity. Its final version allowed corrections for errors, verified misidentification at birth or a medically certified anatomical sex change. The revised biological-sex definition used sex organs, chromosomes or hormone profiles, replacing the earlier requirement to use all three. The House passed the final version 79–11, and it became law on 2023-05-08.
April 25, 2023Opposes Civil Rights
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1473 on 2023-04-21 to reserve shared restrooms and showers for people of the designated sex. It applied to prisons, jails, the youth correctional center, and college housing separated by sex or gender. Reasonable accommodations were required for transgender and gender-nonconforming inmates and residents. The House passed the bill 78–14, and it became law on 2023-04-25.
April 21, 2023Opposes Civil Rights
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for SB2247 on 2023-03-27 and 2023-04-13, restricting specified race and sex concepts in public-college training that earned no course credit. It also barred requiring political views for hiring, promotion or graduation, while preserving academic teaching and research. On 2023-04-13, supported removing a $1 million campus-survey program. The bill became law on 2023-04-24. The House vote on 2023-04-13 was 50–39.
April 13, 2023Opposes Civil Rights
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Voted for the SB2014 Protection and Advocacy Project budget on 2023-04-10. It provided $7,589,911 for 2023–2025, including $3,323,370 from the general fund. General-fund funding rose $184,020 above the listed base budget. The House passed it 88–2, and it became law on 2023-04-18.
April 10, 2023Supports Civil Rights
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Voted for the SB2007 Department of Labor and Human Rights budget on 2023-04-10. It provided $3,107,546 for 2023–2025, including $2,604,148 from the general fund. General-fund funding rose $357,679 above the listed base budget. The House passed it 87–3, and it became law on 2023-04-18.
April 10, 2023Supports Civil Rights
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for SB2231 on 2023-03-22 and to override its veto on 2023-04-03. The bill barred government employers from requiring preferred pronouns and restricted public-school policies and instruction recognizing gender identities different from students’ sex at birth, subject to legal exceptions. The veto stood after the House vote of 56–36.
April 3, 2023Opposes Civil Rights
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1244 on 2023-04-03 to raise an employer tax credit for hiring qualifying workers with developmental disabilities or severe mental illness. It covered 25% of their first $6,000 in annual wages. The credit was limited to half the taxpayer's tax liability and required vocational rehabilitation certification. The House passed the bill 90–0, and it became law on 2023-04-10.
April 3, 2023Supports Civil Rights
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-03-21, voted for SB2225 to require court approval before a guardian forced a person to take mood stabilizers or antipsychotic medicines. It required medical evidence and a hearing, with emergency-care exceptions. It passed the House 70–23 and became law on 2023-03-27.
March 21, 2023Supports Civil Rights
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-21, voted against HB1537, which required police training and reporting on bias crimes and added certain bias motives as sentencing factors. Public reports excluded victims’ and suspects’ names. The House rejected it 29–65.
February 21, 2023Opposes Civil Rights
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1254 on 2023-02-17, banning gender-transition surgeries and puberty blockers or specified hormone treatments for minors, with exceptions for certain sex-development disorders and treatment started before the law. Surgery violations carried felony penalties; drug violations carried misdemeanor penalties. The bill became law on 2023-04-19. The House vote on 2023-02-17 was 66–25.
February 17, 2023Opposes Civil Rights
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1301 on 2023-02-17, banning gender-transition procedures and medication for minors, with exceptions for physical medical conditions and certain continuing treatments. The bill also allowed lawsuits against providers, medical facilities and consenting parents. It failed in the House, 29–62.
February 17, 2023Opposes Civil Rights
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1489 on 2023-02-15, barring students classified as male at birth from women’s college sports at covered institutions. That day, voted against a separate ban on using publicly funded sports facilities for events where minors competed with the opposite sex. That part failed; the college-team restrictions became law on 2023-04-11. The House vote on 2023-02-15 was 75–18.
February 15, 2023Opposes Civil Rights
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1249 on 2023-02-15, barring students classified as male at birth from girls’ school sports. It covered public schools and nonprofit private schools competing against them, while leaving boys’ and coed teams open. The bill became law on 2023-04-11. The House vote on 2023-02-15 was 78–15.
February 15, 2023Opposes Civil Rights
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1450 on 2023-02-14 to clarify that workplace pregnancy accommodations also cover childbirth and related medical conditions. Existing limits for business needs, health and safety, and undue hardship remained. The House passed the bill 91–0, and it became law on 2023-03-15.
February 14, 2023Supports Civil Rights
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored HB 1311 on 2023-01-11 and voted for it on 2023-02-03. It required two women from the House majority party to chair standing committees and two women to serve on Legislative Management. The proposed committee-chair qualifications included voting history or support for the majority party's platform, including support for unborn babies' right to life when that was part of the platform. The House rejected the bill on 2023-02-03.
February 3, 2023Supports Civil Rights
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-01, voted for HB1264, which added individualized planning for people with mental or cognitive impairments to jail plans for alternatives to physical custody. The House passed it 84–9, and it became law on 2023-03-30.
February 1, 2023Supports Civil Rights
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1192 on 2023-01-31, giving absentee voters until the canvassing meeting 13 days after an election to confirm questioned signatures. It also allowed mailed ballots to be scanned three business days before election day without releasing results before polls closed. The bill became law on 2023-03-27. The House vote on 2023-01-31 was 87–4.
January 31, 2023Supports Civil Rights
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored HCR 3010 on 2023-01-26. The resolution urged schools and public agencies to distinguish people by biological sex at birth when setting policies on equal opportunity, privacy, and safety. It did not create a binding law. Both chambers adopted the resolution, and it was filed on 2023-04-06.
January 26, 2023Opposes Civil Rights
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Voted for HB1136 on 2023-01-18. It barred state and local governments from seriously restricting religious practice unless the restriction served an essential government interest through the least restrictive means. It also barred treating religious activity more strictly than comparable nonreligious activity and allowed lawsuits for violations. The bill became law on 2023-03-30. The House vote on 2023-01-18 was 90–0.
January 18, 2023Supports Civil Rights
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored HB 1169 on 2023-01-03 and voted for it on 2023-01-17. It allowed a vehicle used only to transport a person with impaired mobility to receive that person's accessible license plates, even when the person did not own the vehicle. It allowed one set of these plates per person and kept the regular vehicle license fee. The governor signed it on 2023-03-15.
January 17, 2023Supports Civil Rights
Source: ndlegis.gov
Moved and voted on 2019-04-16 to approve updated county equal opportunity, harassment, grievance and funeral leave policies. The motion passed unanimously.
April 16, 2019Supports Civil Rights
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Testified on 2019-02-11 against HB1441 as a member of Concerned Women for America of North Dakota's State Steering Committee. She urged the House Human Services Committee to reject the proposal to add sexual orientation to the state's anti-discrimination protections.
February 11, 2019Opposes Civil Rights
Source: ndlegis.gov

Corporate Accountability · 14 support · 6 oppose

Voted on 2026-09-03 for HB1628 to license kratom sellers, limit sales to adults 21 and older, require testing and labels, ban extracts and provide $20,000 for public health information. On 2026-09-04, voted against SB2408's broader ban on kratom alkaloids, which failed. Later that day, voted for revised HB1628. It kept regulated pure-leaf sales and added criminal penalties for specified kratom derivatives, including products above its 7-hydroxymitragynine limits. It became law on 2026-09-04.
September 4, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
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Voted for HB 1216 on 2025-02-19 to count payments made for patients, including prescription-drug assistance, toward deductibles and out-of-pocket limits for qualifying drugs. On 2025-04-24, voted against the revised bill, which added application and renewal rules starting 2026-01-01. It kept a federal high-deductible-plan exception and became law on 2025-04-29.
April 24, 2025Opposes Corporate Accountability
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Voted against SB 2339 on 2025-04-17 to bar strict liability for wildfire damage caused by electric utilities. On 2025-04-18, voted against reconsidering its rejection, then voted for the same bill after reconsideration passed. It also allowed wildfire plans and gave utilities that prepared, published, and followed them a rebuttable presumption of reasonable care. It became law on 2025-04-24.
April 18, 2025Opposes Corporate Accountability
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Voted for HB 1318 on 2025-01-24 to treat certain federally approved or assessed pesticide labels as sufficient warnings in state-law cases. On 2025-04-16, voted against the revised bill, which treated those labels as satisfying health and safety warning requirements. The revised bill became law on 2025-04-23.
April 16, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
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Voted for House Bill 1058, which sets the state's first rules for aboveground fuel tanks. The North Dakota House passed it 66-24, and it became law.
April 7, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
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Voted for SB2140 on 2023-04-10 to cap state-employee plan costs at $25 for a 30-day insulin supply and a separate $25 for covered dosing supplies, per pharmacy or distributor. That coverage applied through 2025-06-30; the bill became law on 2023-04-14. On 2025-02-20, supported HB1114 to extend the caps to qualifying individual and group plans and continue them for the state-employee plan. Medicare Part D was excluded; qualifying high-deductible plans kept a federal minimum-deductible exception. Insulin pumps, smart pens and continuous glucose monitors were excluded from the caps. The House passed HB1114 59–27, and it became law.
February 20, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
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Co-sponsored HB 1593 on 2025-01-20 and voted for it on 2025-02-17. It required websites providing sexual material harmful to minors to verify age and block access by minors. It proposed a $10,000 daily fine and civil lawsuits for violations. It also required anonymous age checks without retaining users' identity data or records of their online activity. The House rejected it on 2025-02-17.
February 17, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
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Voted on 2025-02-14 for HB1210, which proposed property claims after carbon dioxide pipeline releases. People within 25 miles could place liens on the pipeline or related facility for alleged damages, including punitive damages. The owner's intent or liability did not limit that right. It gave these liens priority over other liens and required bankruptcy reserves for future claims. The House rejected the bill that day.
February 14, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-02-14 for HB1292 and HB1414, which proposed removing carbon dioxide pipelines from the state’s common-carrier rules. HB1414 also proposed barring eminent domain for carbon capture, solar, wind, hydrogen, carbon dioxide storage and transport, and projects using specified federal carbon-capture tax credits. It repealed the geological-storage eminent-domain provision. The House rejected both bills that day.
February 14, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for House Bill 1496, a bill to set 68 degrees as the heat a landlord must keep in a rented home. The North Dakota House passed it 70-19, but the Senate rejected it 11-35 and it did not become law.
February 11, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
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Voted on 2025-02-10 for HB1291, which proposed barring private employers from knowingly hiring or continuing to employ unauthorized workers. It allowed complaints to the attorney general and civil penalties up to $2,000 for a first violation, $5,000 for a second, and $10,000 for later violations. The House passed it, but the Senate rejected it on 2025-04-04.
February 10, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored SB 2206 on 2025-01-14 to set a two-year deadline for certain commercial-carrier injury or death claims. It capped noneconomic damages at $500,000. Seat-belt evidence could reduce damages by up to one percent with expert proof that nonuse contributed to the injury. The Senate replaced those provisions with a three-year deadline for certain claims against employers arising from commercial-vehicle use, then rejected the bill on 2025-02-05.
January 14, 2025Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored HB 1416 on 2023-01-16 and voted for its final version on 2023-04-06. It barred an insurer that also operated a health-provider network, including Medicaid plans, from excluding an eligible licensed provider within its service area who met the insurer's participation rules. On 2023-04-17, voted to override the governor's veto. The Senate completed the override on 2023-04-19, making the bill law.
April 17, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-04, voted for HB1228, which clarified automatic-renewal rules for contracts and allowed customer-approved cancellation notices by text or app. It made noncompliant renewals void and treated goods or services delivered after cancellation as gifts. The House passed it 91–0, and it became law on 2023-04-07.
April 4, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-03, voted for HB1440 to require insurance for app-based delivery drivers and treat them as independent contractors when specified conditions were met. Companies could not cancel a driver’s contract for refusing one delivery. The bill also barred local taxes, licenses and operating rules for these services. It passed the House 89–0 and became law on 2023-04-11.
April 3, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-03-27, voted against SB2331, which required landlords and tenants to document rental-property condition at move-in and move-out. A tenant’s unexplained absence from a scheduled inspection counted as acceptance of the landlord’s report. The House rejected it 23–68.
March 27, 2023Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-20, voted against HB1283, which restricted financial-service denials to documented risk standards and required disclosures when institutions used environmental, social or political criteria. The House rejected it 8–85.
February 20, 2023Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-16, voted for HB1068 to license nonbank mortgage servicers and impose financial and oversight standards, including audits for larger firms. It appropriated $225,000 from licensing and examination fees on enforcement. The House passed it 90–2, and it became law on 2023-04-11.
February 16, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against HB1527 on 2023-02-09 to require private employers covered by federal employment-verification rules to use E-Verify for new hires and suspend or revoke business licenses for violations. The House rejected the bill 5–88.
February 9, 2023Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: ndlegis.gov
Moved and voted on 2019-09-17 to withdraw Walsh County from opioid litigation because of the deadline for gathering records. Reversed that action on 2019-10-01 by moving and voting to continue the case. Both motions passed unanimously.
October 1, 2019Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: cms2.revize.com

Public Infrastructure · 45 support · 1 oppose

Voted for HB 1625 on 2026-01-22 to change the use of University of North Dakota golf-course sale proceeds. It allowed course improvements and support for the men's and women's golf teams. It also authorized $4 million for course improvements from property sales, donations, and local funds. It became law on 2026-01-23.
January 22, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1004, the public-health division budget of the Department of Health and Human Services, on 2023-02-21 and 2023-04-11. Its later House version listed $343,038,673 for 2023–2025, including $44,734,455 from the general fund and $55,120,000 for a public-health laboratory. General-fund funding rose $6,159,300 above the listed base budget. The House passed that version 79–12, and it became law on 2023-04-18. Voted against an earlier SB2012 human-services budget on 2023-04-20. Its main funding table proposed $5,105,090,509 for 2023-07-01 through 2025-06-30, including $1,881,769,143 from the general fund, $326,981,489 above the listed general-fund base budget. The House passed this version 60–32. She was absent from final passage of a later version on 2023-04-29. Voted on 2025-02-25 and 2025-05-01 for HB1012, the health and human services budget for 2025–2027. Its final department appropriation totaled about $5.79 billion, including $2.22 billion from the general fund, for health services, medical assistance, behavioral health, public health, and other department programs. The earlier House bill included $330 million for a new state hospital; the final bill removed that funding. HB1012 became law on 2025-05-16.
May 1, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored HB 1213 on 2025-01-10 and voted for it on 2025-02-11 and 2025-02-25. The House version transferred $50 million from the state's strategic investment fund to a loan fund for local correctional facilities. On 2025-03-17, testified for the bill before Senate Appropriations. The Senate later reduced the transfer to $20 million and removed the correctional-facility restriction, then rejected that version on 2025-03-27. The bill did not become law.
February 25, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored HB 1275 on 2025-01-13 and voted for it on 2025-02-24. It proposed $5 million from the state's strategic investment fund for natural-gas distribution projects in cities of no more than 10,000 residents. Applicants had to provide at least a 50-percent match, with preference for higher matching funds. The House rejected it on 2025-02-24.
February 24, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2019-10-01, 2020-10-06, 2021-08-03, 2021-10-06, 2022-10-10, 2023-10-03 and 2024-10-01 to approve Walsh County's annual budgets. The 2020 budget included $110,000 for the county library without increasing tax mills; the Park River and Forest River joint water district levies fell to zero. The 2021 property-tax levy was 123.25 mills. The 2022 property-tax levy fell 8.25 mills to 115. Its general-fund levy fell from 60 to 55 mills, county-agent levy from 2.5 to 0.5, and Job Development Authority levy from 2.25 to one. The 2023 levy was 123.70 mills, including 59.70 for the general fund and four for the Job Development Authority. The 2024 levy rose 6.99 mills and created a ten-mill capital fund for courthouse heating and cooling or a jail project. On 2024-10-01, approved the 2025 budget with $13,938,343.70 in general and special revenue funds. Also reserved the $670,000 capital levy for courthouse heating and cooling or a jail project. On 2024-11-19, supported using remaining federal ARPA funds for county salaries and moving the same general-fund amount to the heating, ventilation and jail project fund. All these motions passed unanimously.
October 1, 2024Supports Public Infrastructure
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Voted on 2024-05-07 to begin enforcing road right-of-way rules countywide. The motion passed 4–1. Voted on 2024-10-01 to clarify the ordinance's section on damage to highways; that motion passed unanimously.
October 1, 2024Supports Public Infrastructure
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Voted on 2024-09-03 to put an additional ten-mill levy for county roads and bridges on the 2024-11-05 ballot. The motion passed unanimously.
September 3, 2024Supports Public Infrastructure
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Voted on 2024-05-07 for engineering work to replace the bridge on County Road 9 at Drain 48. Voted on 2024-08-20 to accept Gladen Construction's low bid and a $52,800 construction engineering contract. The motions passed unanimously.
August 20, 2024Supports Public Infrastructure
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Voted on 2024-06-18 to approve a letter supporting Alternative 2 for the Matejcek Dam rehabilitation project. The motion passed unanimously.
June 18, 2024Supports Public Infrastructure
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Voted on 2022-10-05 for a county jail building plan and on 2023-02-07 for a $38,450 jail needs study using federal ARPA funds. Voted on 2024-02-06 for a $15,000 first phase of planning work and on 2024-04-16 for about $25,000 in public outreach work. The motions passed unanimously.
April 16, 2024Supports Public Infrastructure
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Voted on 2023-09-05 against buying two John Deere motor graders for $730,000; the motion passed 3–2. Voted on 2024-04-02 to finance the two graders over five years at 5% interest, with annual payments of $133,055. That motion passed unanimously.
April 2, 2024Supports Public Infrastructure
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Voted on 2024-04-02 to accept Morris Sealcoat's $305,710.19 bid to chip seal County Road 14 near Lankin. The motion passed unanimously.
April 2, 2024Supports Public Infrastructure
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Voted against the SB2015 state-management budget on 2023-04-21. That version listed $290,735,783 in total funding, including $143,356,829 from the general fund. It included $75 million for market-based employee pay adjustments, average salary increases of 6% and 4% over two years, and a $130 million pool for new and vacant positions. The House passed it 67–24. She was absent from the final budget votes on 2023-04-29. Voted on 2023-10-25 for SB2393's roughly $280.7 million Office of Management and Budget package for the 2023–25 budget period. It included $82.5 million for targeted state employee pay adjustments and $98.2 million for new and vacant staff positions. It provided $20 million for building maintenance. Salary guidelines averaged 6 percent in the first year and 4 percent in the second. It became law on 2023-10-25.
October 25, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2023-10-25 for SB2394 to provide $106,000 in additional snow-removal grants for qualifying tribal and local governments that had applied but received no 2021–23 grant. The bill also provided $6,500 for governor's office wages. It became law on 2023-10-25.
October 25, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2023-10-25 for SB2397 to make county approval of a joint water-board tax levy optional rather than required. The bill also replaced a $100 million transfer of Bank of North Dakota profits with a bank line of credit for local water-project loans. It became law on 2023-10-25.
October 25, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2023-10-25 for SB2398 to provide $3 million more in school funding and slow the reduction of transition funding for qualifying districts. It also raised the school construction loan limit from $2 million to $5 million and temporarily allowed loans for unexpected construction inflation. It became law on 2023-10-25.
October 25, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2023-10-24 for HB1545 to let park districts use infrastructure revolving loans through 2025-06-30 to refinance loans and pay related special assessments for projects completed after 2022-03-31. It became law on 2023-10-25.
October 24, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2023-10-24 for HB1543 to provide $8.25 million for a Badlands-region behavioral health facility, with a matching-funds requirement and an alternative community-clinic use if no recipient was secured. It provided $26.5 million for rising career-center construction costs and $8.5 million more for Bismarck State College's academic and athletic center. It allowed up to $40 million in revenue bonds for that college project. It became law on 2023-10-25.
October 24, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure
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Voted on 2023-07-18 to spend $500,000 paving three miles of County Road 12 north of Park River. The motion passed unanimously.
July 18, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure
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Voted for the HB1021 state technology budget on 2023-04-28. Its main funding table listed $455,998,224 for 2023–2025, including $43,060,845 from the general fund and $148,250,000 for broadband infrastructure. General-fund funding rose $14,084,892 above the listed base budget. The House passed it 76–17, and it became law on 2023-05-05.
April 28, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the SB2020 water resources budget on 2023-04-28. Its main budget table set aside $862,357,267 from special funds through June 2025, an increase of $453,158,138 from the base budget. The House passed the bill 88–4, and it became law on 2023-05-08.
April 28, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-17, supported HB1491’s $6 million free-meal program for public-school students at or below 200% of the federal poverty level. The House passed it 80–11; the Senate rejected it 23–24. On 2023-04-20, supported the same $6 million meal-program amendment and voted for that version of SB2284, which proposed a $40 million school construction loan-fund transfer. On 2023-04-28, supported the revised SB2284. It included nonpublic schools in the meal program, required a $75 million loan-fund transfer and raised school construction loan limits. The House passed it 77–15, and it became law on 2023-05-08.
April 28, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the final HB1015 corrections budget on 2023-04-27, after voting against its conference proposal that day. On 2023-02-21, she first voted for the budget and then against it after further amendments. The final main funding table listed $445,785,087 for 2023-07-01 through 2025-06-30, including $255,467,963 from the general fund, $37,608,154 above the listed general-fund base budget. It included $131,200,000 for a new Heart River correctional facility. The House passed it 73–18, and it became law on 2023-05-05.
April 27, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the HB1012 transportation budget on 2023-04-26. Its main funding table listed $2,306,094,393 for 2023-07-01 through 2025-06-30, including $10,375,000 from the general fund, compared with no general-fund money in the listed base budget. The table included $78,500,000 in loans tied to receiving matching funds. The House passed it 91–1, and it became law on 2023-05-08.
April 26, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the HB1024 environmental-quality budget on 2023-04-25. Its main funding table listed $92,718,910 for 2023–2025, including $15,782,024 from the general fund, $3,120,949 above the listed general-fund base budget. It separately provided $25 million in federal grants for lead-pipe removal and clean-water projects in communities of 10,000 people or fewer. The House passed it 85–8, and it became law on 2023-05-04.
April 25, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against SB2063 on 2023-03-21 and 2023-04-20. It authorized electric-vehicle charging grants using federal and other nonstate funds, with federal funding covering 10% to 80% of project costs. Its final version barred local governments from owning the charging stations. The bill became law on 2023-04-24. The House vote on 2023-04-20 was 73–18.
April 20, 2023Opposes Public Infrastructure
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Voted on 2023-04-18 for a 50-cent-per-acre assessment to clear 2½ miles of the Park River. The motion passed unanimously.
April 18, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure
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Voted for HB1170 on 2023-04-12 to give certain new natural gas pipeline property a 15-year property tax exemption, excluding land. Qualifying pipelines served cities or townships where most households or businesses lacked gas service at the start of 2023. The House passed the bill 89–1, and it became law on 2023-04-20.
April 12, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for the HB1006 aviation budget on 2023-04-06. It provided $38,644,667 for 2023–2025, including $31.1 million in grants and $475,000 from the general fund. Total funding rose $7,427,680 above the listed base budget, while general-fund funding stayed the same. The House passed it 83–9, and it became law on 2023-04-12.
April 6, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-03-28, voted for SB2113, which created a flexible transportation fund for federal matching funds, road and bridge work, and highway-system support. The House passed it 92–0, and it became law on 2023-04-04.
March 28, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for SB2242 on 2023-03-22, transferring $5 million in state funds to finance bulk propane storage tanks for retailers. Loans were capped at $500,000 or 85% of project costs, with 2% interest and repayment within 15 years. The bill became law on 2023-04-20. The House vote on 2023-03-22 was 82–10.
March 22, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2023-01-03 to finance a $194,000 motor grader through First United at 3.5% interest. The motion passed unanimously.
January 3, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: cms2.revize.com
Voted on 2021-09-14 to approve a $163,800 bid for roof repairs at the Fordville-Lankin shop. Voted on 2022-07-19 to pay the final $144,399.97 cost with federal CARES funds. Both motions passed unanimously.
July 19, 2022Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: cms2.revize.com
Voted on 2022-06-07 to buy $119,300 in pickup-towed road-maintenance equipment for summer workers without commercial driver's licenses: an air compressor, pothole-repair mastic mixer and crack sealer. The proposal's stated purpose was to keep licensed truck drivers on other projects. Half the cost came from highway funds and half from COVID relief funds. The motion passed unanimously.
June 7, 2022Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: cms2.revize.com
Voted on 2022-01-18 to pay $200,000 from the county general fund for the emergency radio system, with repayment in four annual $50,000 payments starting in 2023. All five commissioners voted yes.
January 18, 2022Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: cms2.revize.com
Voted on 2022-01-18 to support a $150,000 investment by the county Job Development Authority in a shared commercial kitchen and business incubator. All five commissioners voted yes.
January 18, 2022Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: cms2.revize.com
Voted on 2021-12-21 to award Swingen Construction a $949,757 contract for a bridge project. She also proposed signing the construction and engineering agreements on 2022-01-18. Both votes passed unanimously.
December 21, 2021Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: cms2.revize.com
Proposed and voted on 2021-10-19 to move $78,890.79 from the county emergency fund to cover eligible expenses from the 2019 and 2020 flood projects. All five commissioners voted yes.
October 19, 2021Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: cms2.revize.com
Voted on 2021-10-06 to approve a $1,114,000 contract with Strata Corporation for a gravel stockpile expected to last five to six years. The county agreed to pay over five years. All five commissioners voted yes.
October 6, 2021Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: cms2.revize.com
Proposed and voted on 2021-04-19 to approve the County Road 19 paving project from Forest River to Interstate 29. On 2021-07-20, she voted to apply for a five year $515,000 loan for paving; on 2021-09-07, she voted to sign the loan at 2% interest. All three proposals passed unanimously.
July 20, 2021Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: cms2.revize.com
Voted on 2021-02-16 to approve the Edinburg bridge project with Riley Bros. Construction and a $53,983.11 county share. All five commissioners voted yes.
February 16, 2021Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: cms2.revize.com
Voted on 2020-09-01 to raise the local 911 fee from $1 to $1.50 per month per communication connection, effective 2021-01-01. The resolution passed unanimously after voters approved the increase.
September 1, 2020Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: cms2.revize.com
Voted on 2020-09-01 to buy a two-station Vesta 911 system for $26,442, with a monthly fee of $1,988.69. The motion passed unanimously.
September 1, 2020Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: cms2.revize.com
Voted on 2020-04-20 to sign a grant agreement covering half the cost of energy improvements to county building lights. The county's share was estimated at $19,609. The motion passed unanimously.
April 20, 2020Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: cms2.revize.com
Moved and voted on 2019-11-05 to sign a $342,000 motor grader loan agreement with Kinetic Leasing. The motion passed unanimously.
November 5, 2019Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: cms2.revize.com
Moved and voted on 2019-04-16 to approve railroad crossing projects on County Roads 1 and 6, with the county paying 10% of the cost. The motion passed unanimously.
April 16, 2019Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: cms2.revize.com

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Voted on 2026-09-02 against allowing introduction of a proposal to stop counties, cities, and townships from permitting data-center construction, rebuilding, or expansion through 2027-06-30. It also proposed voiding conflicting local rules. The introduction motion failed.
September 2, 2026
Source: ndlegis.gov
Received the District 19 Republican Party’s unanimous endorsement for State House, as reported on 2026-02-04. The party endorsed Anderson and David Monson for the House and Janne Myrdal for the Senate at its convention in Grafton.
February 4, 2026
Source: ndpublicnotices.com
Voted on 2025-01-24 for HB1298 to raise the interstate highway speed limit from 75 to 80 miles per hour. Supported its revised version on 2025-05-01. After it failed for lack of a constitutional majority, she supported reconsideration and voted for it again that day. The revised bill changed speeding fees and allowed variable speed limits for unsafe conditions. It became law on 2025-05-05.
May 1, 2025
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-04-15 in committee to add drug-discount reporting requirements to SB 2370, then to recommend against the amended bill. She voted against it on 2025-04-17. It required participating health facilities, pharmacies, drug makers, benefit managers, and insurers to report specified financial and program information, with civil penalties of up to $10,000 per violation. On 2025-04-28, she voted for a replacement requiring a study of reporting rules, confidentiality, and enforcement. That study became law on 2025-05-02; it did not enact the reporting requirements.
April 28, 2025
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-02-24 and 2025-04-21 for HB1307 to prevent home rule counties and cities from overriding state election laws. The later version retained a city's power to change candidate petition signature thresholds and let its park board adopt the same threshold. It became law on 2025-04-28.
April 21, 2025
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-02-18 for HB 1151 to revise cell-cultured protein labeling rules to follow federal food-label standards. On 2025-04-14, she moved to adopt the conference report and voted for its replacement: a study of cell-cultured protein regulation, court cases, and the feasibility of a state prohibition. The study bill became law on 2025-04-23; it did not enact the earlier labeling changes or a sales ban.
April 14, 2025
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against Senate Bill 2159, which lifts the ban on nuclear waste research at the state energy research center. The North Dakota House passed it 57-32, and it became law.
April 9, 2025
Source: legiscan.com
Voted on 2025-04-01 for SB2269 to raise the recall petition threshold for city, park and school board members from 25% to 35% of voters in the relevant prior election. It required fifteen petition sponsors in cities or school districts above the specified size, review of every signature, and filing within ninety days. It became law on 2025-04-16.
April 1, 2025
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-02-25 against HB1446, which proposed requiring nominating petitions for primary ballot access instead of party endorsement certificates. It required at least 2,000 signatures for statewide candidates and retained a petition threshold for legislative candidates. A party could appoint a statewide candidate when no one filed by the specified deadline. The House rejected the bill that day.
February 25, 2025
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-14, voted for HB1207 to publish North Dakota vaccine adverse-event data. On 2023-04-12, supported its revised requirement for a prominent website link to the federal reporting system, reporting instructions and access to state data. The House passed it 89–0, and it became law on 2023-04-21. On 2025-02-24, voted against HB1467 to add reports to lawmakers by July 1 of each even-numbered year, covering state data and a national summary. The proposal also deleted a sentence allowing the department to compile its own website data; it kept the existing link and instructions. The House rejected it 24–69.
February 24, 2025
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-02-24 for HB1245, which proposed removing the election-law ban on paying petition circulators according to the number of signatures obtained. It also removed the associated disclosure and invalid-signature provisions within that ban. The House rejected the bill that day.
February 24, 2025
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-02-18 for HB1297, which barred approval voting and ranked-choice voting in elections for local, state, or federal office. It made conflicting local ordinances, including home-rule ordinances, void. The bill became law on 2025-04-16.
February 18, 2025
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored HCR 3020 on 2025-01-30 and voted for it on 2025-02-18. The resolution urged North Dakota to acknowledge the kingship of Jesus Christ, including over civil government, and requested copies be sent to the president, governor, and Congress. It failed in the House.
February 18, 2025
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-02-17 against HCR3016, which urged state and federal policies supporting carbon capture and using carbon dioxide to recover more oil. It also urged federal incentives and increased federal partnerships with North Dakota’s energy industries. Both chambers adopted the nonbinding resolution, which was filed on 2025-03-21.
February 17, 2025
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored HB 1443 on 2025-01-15, then voted against it on 2025-02-17. It proposed extending farm-vehicle special plates and registration fees to qualifying forestry vehicles. It kept the listed farm-vehicle fee amounts. The House rejected it on 2025-02-17.
February 17, 2025
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-02-14 for HB1295 to repeal sales and use tax exemptions for specified carbon dioxide capture and injection materials. It also repealed the carbon dioxide pipeline property-tax exemption and its payments in place of property taxes. The bill retained the separate exemption for coal-conversion facilities and specified capture and storage equipment. The House rejected it that day.
February 14, 2025
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-02-14 for HB1574, which proposed barring new direct-air carbon dioxide capture projects through 2027-07-31. Projects with all required permits before the proposed law took effect were exempt. The House rejected the bill that day.
February 14, 2025
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for House Bill 1456, a bill to let public schools bring in chaplains. The North Dakota House rejected it 35-46, so it did not become law.
February 14, 2025
Source: legiscan.com
Voted on 2025-02-11 for HB1529 to give resident college tuition status to people certified as having completed Peace Corps volunteer service. It became law on 2025-03-21.
February 11, 2025
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-02-05 for HB1123 to raise insurance licensing and filing fees. Insurance company appointments or renewals of producers rose from $10 to $25. Life or health administrator fees became $250 for licensing and $100 for annual renewal. It also allowed refunds of erroneous payments claimed within two years. It became law on 2025-03-17.
February 5, 2025
Source: ndlegis.gov
Chief-sponsored HB 1522 on 2025-01-20 and voted for it on 2025-02-03. It allowed cities to authorize daytime golf-cart travel on city streets beyond trips between home and a golf course. It kept the nighttime ban and the restriction on federal, state, and county highways except for crossing them. The governor signed it on 2025-03-21.
February 3, 2025
Source: ndlegis.gov
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- April 28, 2025 · Voted for HB1522 on 2023-02-22 and 2023-04-25. Its final version required students to use restrooms matching their biological sex and parent-approved separate arrangements for transgender students. It barred required or prohibited preferred-pronoun use and schools hiding students’ transgender status from parents, subject to legal exceptions. It became law on 2023-05-08. On 2023-10-24, voted against allowing enforcement proposal 23.1202.01000 to be introduced. It proposed attorney general investigations, subpoenas, injunctions and civil penalties up to $2,500 per violation; the introduction motion failed. On 2025-02-07 and 2025-04-28, supported HB1144 to strengthen enforcement of the school rules. It allowed parent complaints, attorney general investigations, court orders and civil penalties up to $2,500 per violation. The final bill required parents to complain to the district first. It barred new shared multi-stall gender-neutral restrooms, exempted those existing on 2025-07-01 and included disability-law and school-event exceptions. It became law on 2025-05-01. (Opposes Civil Rights)
Voted on 2025-01-27 against HB1384, which proposed requiring a full-time county auditor to hold elected office and prevented counties from using a home-rule charter to avoid that requirement. The House rejected the bill that day.
January 27, 2025
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2025-01-27 against HB1312, which proposed moving school board elections to November and park board elections from June to November. It required those elections to use county general-election procedures and moved board terms and organization meetings to December. The House rejected the bill that day.
January 27, 2025
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored HB 1132 on 2025-01-07 and voted for it on 2025-01-21. It allowed public school districts and approved nonprofit private schools to set policies allowing whole, two-percent, and flavored pasteurized milk from bulk dispensers. It did not require schools to serve those products. The governor signed it on 2025-03-21.
January 21, 2025
Source: ndlegis.gov
Chief-sponsored HB 1093 on 2025-01-07 and voted for it on 2025-01-13. It extended restricted seasonal commercial driver's licenses for eligible agricultural workers from one 180-day period to one 210-day period, or from two 90-day periods to two 105-day periods. It measured those periods within a calendar year. The governor signed it on 2025-03-17.
January 13, 2025
Source: ndlegis.gov
Signed a letter on 2024-01-24 opposing a proposed property tax exemption for privately owned farm structures inside city limits that were classed as commercial property and used for personal purposes.
January 24, 2024
Source: ndlegis.gov
Earned CPAC Foundation's Award for Conservative Achievement for the 2023 legislative session, announced in its scorecard release on 2024-01-18. The report listed Karen Anderson among the award recipients and gave her an 83% score.
January 18, 2024
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Voted on 2023-10-24 for HB1547 to expand the public employee retirement board from nine to 11 members and require new appointments within 14 days. It barred the board from lowering its assumed pension investment return below 6.5 percent during the 2023–25 budget period. It required an employee information campaign about the move to the new retirement plan. It became law on 2023-10-25.
October 24, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-26, voted for SB2371 to ban new property purchases and local development by specified foreign adversaries, with exceptions including established businesses holding federal security approval. The House passed it 83–8, and it became law on 2023-04-29. Its restrictions were set to expire on 2025-07-31.
April 26, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-01-25, voted against an earlier version of HB1088 changing the State Investment Board. On 2023-04-25, supported a revised version replacing one retirement-system seat with two governor-appointed investment experts, reducing teacher-retirement seats from three to two, and adding two legislative advisory representatives. The House passed it 79–11, and it became law on 2023-05-08.
April 25, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-21, voted for HB1371 to allow qualifying livestock corporations and companies beyond family farms. On 2023-04-24, supported the revised bill with producer-ownership and acreage limits and a six-year deadline to begin full operations, extended from three years. It passed the House 72–20 and became law on 2023-04-28.
April 24, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1429 on 2023-02-20 and 2023-04-20. It extended public-investment restrictions to environmental, social and governance criteria, with exceptions for comparable or better financial returns. It also barred insurers from denying coverage or changing rates solely for those criteria or political factors without a sound risk-based reason. The bill became law on 2023-04-26. The House vote on 2023-04-20 was 89–1.
April 20, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1528 on 2023-04-12 to cut the minimum retention of nonstudent employee emails at public colleges from two years to one year and strengthen state recordkeeping rules. It required holding supervisors' accounts after certain departures or administrative leave until review, and required keeping agency heads' and specified executive officials' email data for at least one year. The House passed HB1528 91–0, and it became law on 2023-04-21. Voted on 2023-04-28 for the HB1021 state technology budget, which also added personal file storage to that one-year retention requirement for agency heads and specified executive officials. HB1021 became law on 2023-05-05.
April 12, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2023-02-20 against broad research and 320-acre exceptions to restrictions on foreign ownership of farmland, then voted for HB1135 on 2023-02-20 and 2023-04-11. Its final rules exempted Canada and leases, and allowed government-controlled foreign companies to own up to 160 acres for agricultural research. The bill became law on 2023-04-20. The House vote on 2023-04-11 was 90–1.
April 11, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2023-02-15 to preserve local ranked-choice or approval-voting rules adopted before 2023-02-01; that change failed. Then voted for HB1273’s statewide ban on both voting methods and to override its veto on 2023-04-10. The Senate failed to override the veto on 2023-04-19. The House vote on 2023-04-10 was 71–17.
April 10, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-01-18, voted for HB1044 to repeal the Medicaid primary-care provider law. On 2023-04-06, supported a revised version ending the case-management program on 2024-01-01 while keeping recognition of physician assistants and advanced-practice nurses as primary-care providers. It passed the House 84–8 and became law on 2023-04-12.
April 6, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-04, voted for SB2384, which directed lawmakers to consider studying the long-term effects of RSV and mRNA vaccines, including potential risks and treatment costs for injuries. The House rejected it 38–53.
April 4, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
Chief-sponsored HB 1368 on 2023-01-12 and voted for its final version on 2023-04-04. It barred state investment policies that required or pushed anyone to boycott Israel. It also required state contracts with an anti-discrimination clause to bar such boycotts during the contract. Contracts below $100,000 and companies with fewer than ten full-time employees were exempt. State purchasing officials could grant waivers. Speech alone did not count as evidence of a boycott. The governor signed it on 2023-04-06. Submitted a statement dated 2023-01-23 asking the committee to support HB1368's restrictions on state investments and contracts with companies boycotting Israel.
April 4, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for SB2047 on 2023-04-04 to exclude judicial branch meetings, committees, and workgroups from the state law’s definition of a public meeting. The bill kept those meetings under the state Constitution’s open-meeting provision. The House passed the bill 91–0, and it became law on 2023-04-10.
April 4, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-10, voted for HB1111 to make international health regulations unenforceable in North Dakota. On 2023-04-04, supported a revised version allowing regulations adopted by state legislation or a signed executive order. It passed the House 88–3 and became law on 2023-04-06.
April 4, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
Co-sponsored HB 1255 on 2023-01-10 and voted for its amended version on 2023-04-03. It expanded state dairy definitions beyond milk from cows to milk from other hooved mammals, including goats, sheep, horses, and camels. It applied the definition to dairy promotion, dairy regulation, and milk marketing. The governor signed it on 2023-04-11.
April 3, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-04-03, voted for HB1137 to make parents' repayment of court-appointed lawyer costs optional, require documented school interventions before certain juvenile-court referrals, and give courts more discretion to commit children to state custody. It passed the House 84–6 and became law on 2023-04-11.
April 3, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for SCR4013 on 2023-03-23, sending voters a proposal to require citizen-proposed constitutional amendments to pass at both primary and general elections. It also raised the petition signature threshold from 4% to 5% of the population and required one subject per measure. The resolution was filed on 2023-04-12. The House vote on 2023-03-23 was 73–18.
March 23, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-03-14, voted against HCR3024, a proposed constitutional change ending most property taxes and replacing local revenue with higher sales taxes. Existing bond-related property taxes remained until the debt was paid. The House rejected it 18–75.
March 14, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against HCR3031 on 2023-03-14. It proposed electronic petition signatures, higher signature thresholds and approval at both primary and general elections for citizen-proposed constitutional amendments, including approval in a majority of legislative districts. The proposal failed in the House, 29–63.
March 14, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-03-14, voted for HCR3019, a proposed constitutional change replacing eight-year lifetime legislative term limits with twelve consecutive years, followed by a four-year break before returning. It also set similar limits for statewide officers. The House adopted it 63–29; the Senate rejected it 5–41.
March 14, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-03-10, voted against HCR3029, which directed lawmakers to consider studying separate air-quality monitors on the Fort Berthold Reservation for pollution linked to oil and gas development. The House rejected it 15–74.
March 10, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-03-10, voted against HCR3028, which directed lawmakers to consider studying pollution from oil, fracking-sand and wastewater spills along three highways on the Fort Berthold Reservation. The House rejected it 17–72.
March 10, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-03-08, voted for SB2257, which extended the state task force on preventing child sexual abuse through 2025-06-30 and required a final report by 2025-07-01. The House passed it 93–0, and it became law on 2023-03-14.
March 8, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-21, voted for HB1503, which required state security reviews and permits for certain businesses and assets controlled by foreign adversaries, with exceptions for established or federally approved businesses. The House passed it 93–0; the Senate rejected it 2–45.
February 21, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against HB1282 on 2023-02-17 to exempt menstrual products, including tampons, pads, liners, and cups, from sales and use taxes. The House rejected the bill 33–56.
February 17, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-16, voted for HB1286, which removed the high-oil-price tax increase for most wells, leaving a 5% extraction tax. Reservation-related wells kept the 6% trigger unless a tribe chose to opt out. The House passed it 72–21, and it became law on 2023-03-29.
February 16, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1461 on 2023-02-15, limiting most local property tax levy increases to 5% per year unless 60% of voters approved a larger increase. Exceptions covered new taxable property, new levy authority and specified debt and assessment payments. The bill failed, 41–52.
February 15, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-14, voted against HB1471, which created a task force to develop a statewide food-insecurity plan covering access to food assistance and barriers faced by older adults and children. The House rejected it 14–77.
February 14, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against HB1204 on 2023-02-13, requiring candidates in two-member House districts to choose a separate A or B seat instead of running together for both seats. The bill failed, 9–81.
February 13, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1499 on 2023-02-10 to consider studying a Bank of North Dakota program to lower mortgage interest costs for homeowners' primary residences. The proposed study covered housing access and workforce effects. The House passed it 76–14, but the Senate rejected it 13–34.
February 10, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-02-06, voted against HB1374 to let the Public Service Commission order state agencies to stop competing with private businesses. Exceptions covered cost, emergencies, inadequate private service and serious loss. The House rejected it 14–79.
February 6, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1329 on 2023-02-02, reducing the teaching experience needed for a lifetime state license from 30 years to 20. The Senate rejected the bill on 2023-03-30. The House vote on 2023-02-02 was 87–6.
February 2, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against HB1347 on 2023-02-01. It required a public list of financial firms boycotting fossil-fuel companies without a reasonable business reason and authorized the state treasurer to refuse those firms state banking contracts. The bill failed, 3–90.
February 1, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted against HB1405 on 2023-01-30, limiting vote centers to five precincts and requiring electronic voter lists to be offline on election day. It also changed the handling of mailed absentee ballots. The bill failed, 17–77.
January 30, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1145 on 2023-01-27, setting a seven-year deadline to prosecute felony sex offenses and human trafficking unless another law provided otherwise. The bill became law on 2023-03-29. The House vote on 2023-01-27 was 90–0.
January 27, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-01-13, voted against HB1051, which added housing-stability and rental-assistance administration to Health and Human Services’ duties and allowed meals for certain staff during disrupted operations. The House passed it 72–20, and it became law on 2023-03-15.
January 13, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1139 on 2023-01-13, requiring birth records to identify a child as male or female based on physical sex traits at birth. “Not yet determined” remained available when those traits did not establish sex. The bill became law on 2023-04-07. The House vote on 2023-01-13 was 81–11.
January 13, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
On 2023-01-12, voted against HCR3002, a proposed constitutional change requiring state-regulated sports betting. The House adopted it 49–44; the Senate rejected it 16–30. On 2023-01-11, supported a failed amendment making authorization optional and limited to professional sports, rejected 32–62.
January 12, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted for HB1026 on 2023-01-06, directing lawmakers to consider a study of how recommendations for mental health and psychiatric care were being carried out. The study bill became law on 2023-03-15. The House vote on 2023-01-06 was 88–2.
January 6, 2023
Source: ndlegis.gov
Voted on 2022-03-01 to make the Walsh County treasurer an appointed position. The resolution passed unanimously.
March 1, 2022
Source: cms2.revize.com
Moved and voted on 2020-12-15 to remove the December–March seasonal limit from Walsh County's 129,000-pound overweight truck permits. The motion passed unanimously.
December 15, 2020
Source: cms2.revize.com
Moved and voted on 2019-11-19 to waive road cleaning bills for that year for farmers who made a reasonable effort to keep county roads clean during the wet harvest. People who made little or no effort still faced bills. The motion passed unanimously.
November 19, 2019
Source: cms2.revize.com
Voted on 2019-04-02 against applying reductions for rocks, frequent flooding or salt damage to 2018 property assessments. On 2019-10-01, supported reducing the productivity index of 33 ridge soil types by 15%. Also supported a 10% assessment reduction for agricultural land in a designated frequently flooded area along the Red River. Both motions passed.
October 1, 2019
Source: cms2.revize.com
Testified on 2017-03-01 against a proposed study of replacing the Life Skills and Transition Center in Grafton with services throughout the state for people with disabilities.
March 1, 2017
Source: ndlegis.gov

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