Today is day 57 at the North Dakota Capitol.
The Senate has 73 bills left and the House has 64 bills to act on. Both chambers will not gavel in on Friday the 2nd. The reason for this is because the Legislature is attempting to save as many days as possible, and saving an extra day now is crucial for redistricting in the fall. The Senate had a total of 339 bills to act on after crossover and the House had a total of 252. The workload for the Senate was much greater in the second half of session than the first, and the opposite was true for the House in the first half.
North Dakota Senate kills bill to give tax credit to private school parents
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Debate over taxes from oil wells along Fort Berthold boundary heads to House
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How can North Dakota curb natural gas flaring? Lawmakers mull tax incentive
As oil prices inch upward and North Dakota producers look to bring more wells back online, lawmakers are considering offering a tax credit to oil industry producers to help the state to keep environmentally harmful natural gas flaring under control. Written By: Adam Willis | ×
Natural gas is flared at a well site north of Killdeer along North Dakota Highway 22. Tom Stromme / Bismarck Tribune
BISMARCK North Dakota oil producers have historically struggled to keep pace with the state s tightening regulations on the environmentally harmful flaring of natural gas.
Over the last seven years, the state has steadily raised its gas capture goals in an attempt to catch up with the flaring rates of other oil producing states around the country. And though the latest figures from state regulators show the industry has recently hit milestone gas capture levels clearing the state s