Text of ND HB 1181 (2025)
Gender usage in the North Dakota Century Code.
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25.0497.01000
Sixty-ninth
Legislative Assembly
of North Dakota
Introduced by
Representatives S. Olson, K. Anderson, Christianson, Henderson, Koppelman, Morton, Tveit
Senators Castaneda, Van Oosting
A BILL for an Act to amend and reenact section 1-01-34 of the North Dakota Century Code,
relating to gender usage in the North Dakota Century Code.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA:
SECTION 1. AMENDMENT. Section 1-01-34 of the North Dakota Century Code is amended
and reenacted as follows:
1-01-34. Gender - Definition.
Words of one gender include the other gendersused to reference an individual's sex,
gender, gender identity, or gender expression, mean the individual's determined sex at birth,
male or female.
1.
Words referring to an individual, person, employer, employee, contestant, participant,
member, student, or juvenile must be used in the context of that person's sex as
determined at birth.
2.
If sex, gender, gender identity, or gender expression is contested, determination is
established by the individual's DNA.
3.
This section applies to all policies, records, forms, rules, standards, procedures,
guides, materials, instruction, training, correspondence, advertising, or marketing used
by any entity receiving state funding, including a public school, an institution under the
control of the state board of higher education, and a state agency or office.
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Sixty-ninth Legislative Assembly of North Dakota
In Regular Session Commencing Tuesday, January 7, 2025
HOUSE BILL NO. 1181
(Representatives S. Olson, K. Anderson, Christianson, Henderson, Koppelman, Morton, Tveit)
(Senators Castaneda, Van Oosting)
AN ACT to amend and reenact section 1-01-34 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to gender
usage in the North Dakota Century Code.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA:
SECTION 1. AMENDMENT. Section 1-01-34 of the North Dakota Century Code is amended and
reenacted as follows:
1-01-34. Gender - Definition.
1.
Words of one gender include the other genders.
2.
Words
used to reference an individual's gender mean the individual's sex.
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____________________________
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Speaker of the House
President of the Senate
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Chief Clerk of the House
Secretary of the Senate
This certifies that the within bill originated in the House of Representatives of the Sixty-ninth Legislative
Assembly of North Dakota and is known on the records of that body as House Bill No. 1181.
House Vote:
Yeas 79
Nays 11
Absent 4
Senate Vote:
Yeas 41
Nays 6
Absent 0
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Chief Clerk of the House
Received by the Governor at ________M. on _____________________________________, 2025.
Approved at ________M. on __________________________________________________, 2025.
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Governor
Filed in this office this ___________day of _______________________________________, 2025,
at ________ o’clock ________M.
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Secretary of State