Lawmakers Selected for Committee That Makes Study Decisions for Next Session

State Senate Majority Leader David Hogue, R-Minot.  (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)

(By: Michael Achterling. North Dakota Monitor) – With the 69th North Dakota Legislative Assembly finishing its business in the coming days, lawmakers elected members to the Legislative Management Committee to prepare for the next session and deal with any unfinished business.

The Legislative Management Committee has three primary roles during the interim before the 70th Legislative Assembly meets in January 2027.

The committee decides which studies will be completed before the next legislative session and assigns them to the appropriate committees. They will appoint lawmakers to at least eight mandatory interim committees and additional committees, such as the committee tasked with being the North Dakota version of the Department of Government Efficiency, that were approved during the session. Lastly, the committee will accept the reports compiled during the interim.

John Bjornson, director of the Legislative Council, said up to 60 discretionary legislative studies and up to 15 mandatory studies are approved during each legislative session, and it will be up to the committee to whittle that down to a more manageable 45 studies in total and assign them