North Dakota transportation laws
What North Dakota has enacted on transportation, what each law requires, and what the bills still moving would do. North Dakota is one of 41 states that enacted a transportation law in the 2025 and 2026 sessions.
- Bills in scope
- 3bills in scope
- Past committee
- 3past committee
- Most recent action
- 31 March 2025most recent action
Transportation laws enacted in North Dakota
2 transportation laws enacted in the North Dakota Legislature in the 2025 and 2026 sessions, newest first. Each links to the legislature's own page.
- HB 1062AN ACT to amend and reenact section 49-04-07 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to unreasonable preferences or advantages from public utilities; and to repeal sections 49-04-08, 49-04-09, and 49-04-10 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to regulation of common carriers relating to permissible discrimination, long and short hauls, and freight pooling.Enacted 19 March 2025
What it requires: No public utility shall make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person, company, firm, corporation, limited liability company, or locality, or subject any to undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage. Public utilities cannot charge different compensation for like and contemporaneous service under the same or substantially similar circumstances. Reasonable agreements with customers, consumers, or employees and sliding scale charges require filing with and approval by the commission.
- HB 1093AN ACT to amend and reenact section 39-06.2-06 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to commercial driver's licenses; and to declare an emergency.Enacted 19 March 2025
Motor carriers and commercial drivers
Transportation in North Dakota, by topic
Motor carriers and commercial drivers
1 bill, 1 enacted. Enacted in 34 states.
Autonomous trucks and delivery devices
1 bill. Enacted in 8 states.
Transportation bills in North Dakota
The bills not yet law, furthest along first, with what each would do.
2Enacted
1Past committee
3 bills in scope
Past committee
1
What it would do: Defines an automated truck tractor as one where at least one safety critical control function occurs without direct operator input. Requires a valid commercial driver's license holder to be physically present in the vehicle to monitor performance and take control.
Bill titles link to the North Dakota Legislature's own page.
What counts as transportation legislation
In scope: Motor carriers and commercial drivers; truck size, weight and road use; truck and fleet emissions; hazardous materials transport; freight rail; ports, maritime and freight corridors; warehouses and delivery; and autonomous trucks and delivery devices.
Questions
Does North Dakota have a transportation law?
Yes. North Dakota enacted 2 transportation laws in the 2025 and 2026 sessions, among them HB 1062 and HB 1093. Each is listed on this page with what it requires.
Which transportation bills are moving in North Dakota?
1 bill not yet law has passed a committee or a chamber, the furthest along HB 1614 (passed chamber).
What does North Dakota legislate on most in transportation?
Motor carriers and commercial drivers (1 bill) and Autonomous trucks and delivery devices (1 bill).
Are these summaries reviewed by a lawyer?
No. Which bills count as Transportation bills, and the line on what each law requires or each bill would do, are drafted by software from the bill's own text and not reviewed by an attorney. Every bill links to the legislature's own record: read the text before relying on it. The list covers bills from the 2025 and 2026 sessions.
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Transportation legislation in other jurisdictions
52 more currently hold bills in this tracker
- Congress101
- New Jersey72
- Texas61
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- Missouri39
- Iowa34
- Oklahoma33
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- Massachusetts30
- Louisiana25
- Illinois24
- Pennsylvania24
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- Utah21
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- Minnesota13
- Oregon11
- Florida10
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- Colorado7
- Georgia7
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- Maine7
- North Carolina7
- Wisconsin7
- South Carolina6
- Alaska5
- District of Columbia5
- Delaware5
- Wyoming5
- Indiana4
- New Hampshire4
- Nevada4
- Vermont4
- Alabama3
- Idaho2
- Puerto Rico2
- Ohio1
Know when North Dakota's transportation law changes
An alert when a bill moves, and one report a month on what changed in every state and Congress.