National Guard Specific

Visitation Proceedings Involving Military Parent

• Courts to take particular care to ensure child of military member called to active duty or may be called to active duty has maximum opportunity for contact with parent
• Military members call to active duty service may not be a factor in court decisions to grant to deny a petition for visitation
• Military member may petition for visitation rights for family member
• Fiscal note: $0

Guardian Powers Parent Deployed

• Allow parent or guardian of a minor child or incapacitated person authority to delegate guardianship to another person for up to 24 months
• Declared an emergency
• Fiscal note: $0

Mandatory Evacuations

• Adds "Mandatory evacuation order to NDCC 37-17.1-10". Reads: "A local disaster, emergency or mandatory evacuation order may be declared" ...
• Allows local executive officers of city or county to order mandatory evacuations

NDNG State Active Duty

• Protects National Guard members from employer discrimination when involuntarily activated for State Active Duty emergencies for more than twenty regular working days in a calendar year. Under NDCC 37-29-03
• Fiscal note: $0

ND National Guard UCMJ and License Plates

• Adds state active duty time to be subject to discipline as set forth in USMJ
• Changes to veteran definition dates for adjusted compensation (war bonus)
• Adds motorcycle plates available for NDNG license plates
• Fiscal note: $0

ND National Guard-Emergency Management

• Allows local emergency management organizations to enter into interstate mutual aid agreements with nearby political subdivisions.

Child Custody

• Addresses visitation rights of family members of children whose parent is deployed
• Addresses military deployments when considering child custody
• Addresses temporary child custody while custodial parent is deployed
• Includes Redeploying and Redeployment
• Fiscal note: $0
• DSLO KEY ISSUES 2015

Book of ND Veterans

• The Adjutant General shall initiate and coordinate the writing, publishing, and distribution of a record of all North Dakota Veterans, including a record of all North Dakotans killed in action and missing in action since statehood. The Adjutant General shall determine the projected costs for the completion of the writing, publishing, and distribution of the records and present those projections to the legislative management.
• Appropriations: $0
• Fiscal note: $0

Property Tax Exemption while on Active Duty

• Reduce taxable valuation of homestead for each day on Federal active duty divided by total number of days in a year (365). Full year would equal 100% reduction.
• On first $4,500 of taxable value of homestead.
• Spouses living together may only apply for 1 exemption
• Service members living together and not married can apply for full exemption based on the percentage of ownership in the homestead.
• Fiscal note: No amount provided.

North Dakota National Guard Operations

A BILL for an Act to amend and reenact sections 37‑01‑43, 37‑04‑16, 37‑07.2‑01, subsection 6 of 37‑28‑02, and section 37‑28‑03 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to the operation of the North Dakota national guard; and to declare an emergency.