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64Th North Dakota Legislative Session Voter Scorecard 64th North Dakota Legislative Session Voter Scorecard on Education North Dakota Council of Educational Leaders (NDCEL) Table of Contents Summary of session 1 Education Bill Description 2 Legislative Districts 3 Legislator votes 4-15 Legend Golden apple award (voted for education 70-100% of the time) Silver apple award (voted for education 50-69% of the time) Scorecard Summary The 64th legislative has concluded. The NDCEL organization closely monitored and advocated for our schools, our school employees, and our students as we worked through bills and proposed laws that would impact us in education. The NDCEL office tracked approximately 80 bills. In this voter scorecard report, we are highlighting 7 bills that had some of the most tremendous impact on K12 education. One bill that was extremely challenging for us to work on together was bill 1461 known to educators as the “anti-standards bill” sponsored by Representatives Jim Kasper, Rick C. Becker, Dosch, Kempenich, Ruby Streyle, Thoreson and Vigesaa and Senators Bowman, Dever and Larsen that sought to remove our ND State Standards, remove us from the state assessment, and remove the ability of the state superintendent to execute the role of decision making regarding standards and assessment. At the end of the day, the bill in its total scope was not voted on in the House of Representatives. That bill was “divided” and the only pieces that were voted on were on the assessment and on the role of the state superintendent. Because the vote was so very different from the implication of the actual bill, adding that bill to the voter scorecard was rather misleading. Each bill will be described and our stance on that bill will be offered. Your legislators are organized by the district they served so you are easily able to see how YOUR legislators supported or did not support education within your community. Each legislator will be given a percentage rank. This percentage shows how much they did (or did not support public education.) You will see ratings as high as 100% and some that are terribly low. Take a look - how are your legislators doing? This then empowers you to have conversations with your legislators, your friends, and your community about what types of supports our education system needs from our locally elected officials. 1 Bills analyzed Reps Kiefert, Brabandt, K. Koppelman, Amended Passed Porter; Sen Relating to carrying of a firearm concealed in a Armstrong, Oppose Carlisle, school. Dever, Erbele, Larsen, Luick, Miller, 1195 Guns Wanzek Do Pass 53-38 in Schools 1218 Amended Failed Reps Nathe, Relating to school district ending fund balances; Ending Bellew; Sen Do Pass 24-69 Hogue, to provide an effective date; and to declare an Oppose Fund Schaible emergency. Balance Reps Kiefert, Do Not A BILL for an Act to provide an appropriation Failed D. Johnson, Support Pass Larson, for school district resource officer grants. 1388 - SRO Muscha Grants 17-3 40-53 Reps B. Koppelman, Rick C. Becker, Amended Failed Dosch, Kasper, Relating to restrictions on the collection and Rohr, dissemination of student information; and to Oppose Sanford, provide a penalty. Schatz, Toman; Sen Larsen, Do Not 1453 47-44 Luick, Rust, Pass Student Schaible (need 48 to Data Bill pass) Relating to the determination of state aid Education payable to school districts; to repeal sections of Amended Passed the ND Century Code, relating to the 2031 - determination of state aid payable to school Monitor Education districts, school district levies, and mill levy Funding reduction grants; to provide for a transfer; and Do Pass 46-0 Funding to provide for a contingent transfer. Bill Education Amended Passed 2088 - Relating to authorization for the creation of a Committee ND education foundation; and to provide for a Support Passed 33-14 Education report to legislative management. Foundation Relating to early childhood education provider Sen Flakoll, Support Amended Passed Heckaman, grants; to amend and reenact section 15.1-37-01 Poolman; of the ND Century Code, relating to early Reps Dosch, childhood education program approval; to Nathe, provide an appropriation; and to provide an Vigesaa w/amendment Do Pass 33-14 2151 Pre-K effective date. Grants 2 Approved_plan_11_8_11 District Population Deviation % Deviation AmIndian % AmIndian 1 14395 85 0.59% 461 3.20% APPROVED BY JOINT LEGISLATIVE REDISTRICTING COMMITTEE 2 14657 347 2.42% 478 3.26% 3 14626 316 2.21% 609 4.16% 4 14081 -229 -1.60% 4650 33.02% 5 14129 -181 -1.26% 377 2.67% 6 14294 -16 -0.11% 176 1.23% 7 13919 -391 -2.73% 236 1.70% 8 14175 -135 -0.94% 188 1.33% 9 13937 -373 -2.61% 10763 77.23% 10 14393 83 0.58% 206 1.43% 11 14781 471 3.29% 259 1.75% 12 13706 -604 -4.22% 250 1.82% 13 14862 552 3.86% 132 0.89% 14 14431 121 0.85% 227 1.57% 15 13697 -613 -4.28% 1043 7.61% 16 14897 587 4.10% 221 1.48% 17 13894 -416 -2.91% 151 1.09% 18 13929 -381 -2.66% 455 3.27% 19 13812 -498 -3.48% 189 1.37% 20 14314 4 0.03% 123 0.86% 21 14728 418 2.92% 451 3.06% 22 14838 528 3.69% 111 0.75% 23 14455 145 1.01% 3758 26.00% 24 14156 -154 -1.08% 88 0.62% 25 14469 159 1.11% 309 2.14% 26 14021 -289 -2.02% 70 0.50% 27 14014 -296 -2.07% 80 0.57% 28 13729 -581 -4.06% 93 0.68% 29 13629 -681 -4.76% 85 0.62% 30 14689 379 2.65% 1134 7.72% 31 14844 534 3.73% 3699 24.92% 32 14541 231 1.61% 1119 7.70% 33 14279 -31 -0.22% 213 1.49% 34 14439 129 0.90% 770 5.33% 35 14787 477 3.33% 475 3.21% 36 14084 -226 -1.58% 138 0.98% 37 14301 -9 -0.06% 164 1.15% 38 14093 -217 -1.52% 224 1.59% 39 14806 496 3.47% 190 1.28% 40 14257 -53 -0.37% 391 2.74% 41 14668 358 2.50% 118 0.80% 42 14001 -309 -2.16% 561 4.01% 43 13906 -404 -2.82% 389 2.80% 44 14213 -97 -0.68% 167 1.17% 45 14575 265 1.85% 131 0.90% 46 14630 320 2.24% 137 0.94% 47 14510 200 1.40% 332 2.29% Page 1 Fargo/ West Fargo Minot Bis/Man Williston Jamestown Dickinson Grand Forks 3 Legislator Votes D i HB1218 s Ending t SB2151 HB1453 HB1388 Fund Legislator Red Indicates votes r Early Student Funding Balance against Education / Green i Child- SB2031 SB 2088 Data (no HB1195 SRO's (no (No indicates votes for Education / c hood Education Education senate Guns in senate Senate % shows vote for education t Vote Funding Foundation vote) Schools vote) Vote Brad Bekkedahl - 50% Nay Yea Nay Nay 1 Patrick R. Hatlestad - 57% Nay Yea Yea Yea Nay Nay Nay 1 Gary Sukut - 57% Nay Yea Yea Yea Nay Nay Nay 1 David S. Rust - 75% Yea Yea Yea Yea 2 t Nay Yea Nay Nay Yea Nay Nay Ber Anderson - 43% 2 Nay Yea Nay Nay Yea Nay Nay Bob Skarphol - 43% 2 y L Nay Yea Nay Yea Ole arsen - 25% 3 Andrew G. Maragos -100% Yea Yea Yea Nay Other Yea Nay 3 ith S Yea Yea Nay Yea Yea Nay Yea Roscoe Ke treyle -29% 3 John M. Warner - 100% Yea Yea Yea Nay 4 Kenton Onstad - 86% Yea Yea Nay Nay Nay Yea Nay 4 th - Nay Yea Nay Yea Yea Nay Nay Glen Frose 29% 4 4 Legislator Votes D i HB1218 s Ending t SB2151 HB1453 HB1388 Fund Legislator Red Indicates votes r Early Student Funding Balance against Education / Green i Child- SB2031 SB 2088 Data (no HB1195 SRO's (no (No indicates votes for Education / c hood Education Education senate Guns in senate Senate % shows vote for education t Vote Funding Foundation vote) Schools vote) Vote Randy A. Burckhard - 100% Yea Yea Yea Nay 5 dt Nay Yea Nay Yea Yea Nay Nay Roger Braban - 29% 5 Scott C. Lou Nay Yea Nay Yea Yea Nay Yea ser - 14% 5 David Paul O'Connell - 85% Nay Yea Yea Nay 6 Bob Hunskor - 100% Yea Yea Yea Nay Nay Yea Nay 6 Dick Anderson - 71% Nay Yea Yea Nay Nay Nay Nay 6 Nicole Poolman - 100% Yea Yea Yea Nay 7 Jason Dockter - 57% Yea Yea Yea Nay Yea Nay Yea 7 Nay Nay Nay Yea Yea Nay Yea Rick Becker - 0% 7 Howard C. Anderson Jr. - 50% Yea Yea Nay Yea 8 . Nay Yea Nay Yea Yea Nay Nay Jeff W Delzer - 29% 8 g Nay Nay Nay Yea Yea Nay Nay Vernon Lanin - 14% 8 5 Legislator Votes D i HB1218 s Ending t SB2151 HB1453 HB1388 Fund Legislator Red Indicates votes r Early Student Funding Balance against Education / Green i Child- SB2031 SB 2088 Data (no HB1195 SRO's (no (No indicates votes for Education / c hood Education Education senate Guns in senate Senate % shows vote for education t Vote Funding Foundation vote) Schools vote) Vote Richard Marcellais - 100% Yea Other Yea Nay 9 Tracy Boe - 86% Yea Yea Nay Nay Nay Yea Nay 9 Marvin Nelson - 86% Yea Yea Yea Nay Yea Nay 9 Joe T. Miller - 50% Yea Yea Nay Yea 10 vid C. Mon Yea Yea Yea Yea Yea Nay Nay Da son - 43% 10 Nay Yea Nay Yea Yea Nay Nay Charles Damschen - 29% 10 Tim Mathern - 100% Yea Yea Yea Nay 11 Ron Guggisberg - 86% Yea Yea Nay Nay Nay Yea Nay 11 Kris Wallman - 100% Yea Yea Yea Nay Nay Yea Nay 11 John Grabinger - 100% Yea Yea Yea Nay 12 Jessica Haak - 86% Yea Yea Nay Nay Nay Yea Nay 12 Alex Looysen - 71% Yea Yea Yea Nay Yea Yea Yea 12 6 Legislator Votes D i HB1218 s Ending t SB2151 HB1453 HB1388 Fund Legislator Red Indicates votes r Early Student Funding Balance against Education / Green i Child- SB2031 SB 2088 Data (no HB1195 SRO's (no (No indicates votes for Education / c hood Education Education senate Guns in senate Senate % shows vote for education t Vote Funding Foundation vote) Schools vote) Vote m Nay Yea Nay Yea Yea Nay Yea Ki Koppelman - 14% 13 Judith Lee - 100% Yea Yea Yea Nay 13 Nay Yea Nay Yea Yea Yea Yea Christopher Olson - 29% 13 Jerry Klein - 50% Nay Yea Yea Yea 14 O.
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