Every jurisdiction in this catalog has entries whose figures move when a bill passes, whose act takes effect on a later date, or whose program is repealed while its agency keeps advertising it. This page watches each jurisdiction's law, follows a bill through its own jurisdiction's process where its stages are recorded, and names the catalog entries each instrument touches.
7 instruments in North Dakota. Tracked across 51 jurisdictions. Every other jurisdiction on the board is still watched by hand.
A bill that died is listed only where a guide, an agency, or a news story has described it as current law. That is the failure that puts a number in front of a veteran which no assessor, registrar, or school will honor.
▲Expands benefitsRaises the disabled veterans property tax credit ceiling from $8,100 to $9,000 of taxable valuation.
Part of the 2025 property tax package that created the legacy property tax relief fund and revised the primary residence credit, this act also amended 57-02-08.8 to raise the ceiling on the disabled veterans credit from the first eight thousand one hundred dollars of taxable valuation to the first nine thousand. Tracked for the unit as much as the figure: the ceiling is taxable valuation, which for residential property is nine percent of assessed value and assessed value is fifty percent of true and full value, so $9,000 corresponds to roughly $200,000 of market value. Summaries that print "100% disability = $9,000" as though it were a dollar credit are describing the wrong quantity.
▲Expands benefitsWidens the definition of veteran from federalized active military duty to uniformed services duty.
Amended 37-01-40(1) to replace "federalized active military duty" with "federalized active uniformed services duty", and amended 37-01-25 on public employee military leave and 37-14-01.1 on the veterans’ aid chapter definition. The uniformed services are wider than the armed forces and include the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service and of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Because 37-01-40 is the definition the property tax credit, the dependent tuition waiver, resident tuition status, the employment preference and the veterans’ home all reach back to, one phrase widened every one of them at once. Declared an emergency measure, approved and filed April 17, 2025.
▲Expands benefitsRaises the death benefit for a Guard member who dies on state active duty from $15,000 to $100,000.
Amended 37-01-48 to raise the ceiling on the death benefit payable to the designated beneficiary or next of kin of a Guard member who died while serving on state active duty, from fifteen thousand dollars to one hundred thousand. Introduced at the request of the adjutant general, declared an emergency measure, approved March 17 and filed March 18, 2025. Tracked because the fifteen thousand dollar figure is still being published, including by the federal benefits libraries reviewed in 2026, and the difference to a bereaved family is eighty-five thousand dollars. The payment remains discretionary and subject to available funds, so the figure is a ceiling rather than an entitlement.
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▲Expands benefitsRaises the ceiling on veterans' aid fund loans to a veteran or surviving spouse from $5,000 to $8,000.
Amended 37-14-04 and 37-14-06 to raise the maximum total of all loans from the veterans’ aid fund to a veteran or surviving spouse from five thousand dollars to eight thousand. The rest of the program is unchanged: repayment within four years, interest capped by statute at ten percent and currently published at eight, and one-half of the interest waived on timely repayment. Tracked because the five thousand dollar figure is still the one printed in the federal benefits libraries and in older state guidance, and a veteran told the ceiling is five thousand may not ask for what they need.
▲Expands benefitsCreates a burial medallion for a Guard member who qualifies for no other marker.
Created a new section to chapter 37-18 requiring the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to establish and administer a program providing a medallion, a small durable marker attached to an existing headstone or grave marker, for a national guard or national guard reserve member not buried in the state veterans’ cemetery who does not qualify for another medallion from the state or federal department of veterans affairs. It fills one specific gap: the Guard member who served a full career without a federalization that would earn a federal marker, buried in a family plot. Approved and filed March 14, 2025.
▲Expands benefitsCounts individual unemployability paid at the 100 percent rate in five benefits that required a total rating.
Amended 15-10-18.2(1), 37-19.1-03(2), 39-04-18(2)(j), 57-02-08.8(1) and 57-40.3-04(1) in one act, so that the dependent tuition waiver, the spouse employment preference, the motor vehicle registration exemption, the disabled veterans property tax credit and the motor vehicle excise exemption all name an extra-schedular rating to include individual unemployability which results in the veteran being paid at the one hundred percent rate. This is the act that makes North Dakota unusual in this catalog: where other states leave a veteran paid at the total rate arguing with an assessor or a clerk, North Dakota decided it in the operative text of five benefits at once. Tracked because guidance written against the pre-2025 wording describes some of these benefits as requiring a schedular hundred percent.
Chapter 37-28 paid fifty dollars a month for domestic service, one hundred a month for foreign service with an expeditionary medal or campaign badge, two thousand five hundred dollars where a Purple Heart was earned in the mobilization, and five thousand dollars to the beneficiary of a veteran who died as a result of active service, for service between December 5, 1992 and June 30, 2021. Section 37-28-03 allowed applications to be filed with the adjutant general through June 30, 2021, or for a soldier mobilized on that date not later than six months after the end of the mobilization. Both dates have passed. The two older bonus chapters closed earlier: 37-27 on December 31, 1994 and 37-26 six months after the end of its period of service. All three chapters are still printed in the Century Code with no indication on their face that the windows have shut, which is why the catalog carries an entry whose job is to say the programs are closed.
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