{"id":"ND-079","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"North Dakota","state":"ND","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Sixty-seventh Legislative Assembly (House Bill 1175); signed by Governor Burgum April 23, 2021","authority":"N.D. Const. art. IV; new chapter to N.D.C.C. title 32 (Judicial Remedies)","instrument":"House Bill 1175 (2021), an emergency measure with retroactive application (cross-reference to the existing library exhibit)","title":"An Act to create and enact a new chapter to title 32 relating to business immunity from COVID-19 liability claims; to provide for retroactive application; and to declare an emergency","dateIssued":"2021-04-23","effective":"2021-04-23 (emergency measure); applies retroactively to January 1, 2020 (sec. 2)","end":"standing (statute)","startDate":"2021-04-23","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","COND","OTHER"],"addressees":["businesses","health care providers and facilities"],"clause":"AN ACT to create and enact a new chapter to title 32 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to business immunity from COVID-19 liability claims; to provide for retroactive application; and to declare an emergency.... \u0027Health care facility\u0027 means any facility in which health care services are provided and includes... any field hospital, modular field-treatment facility, or other alternative care facility designated by the state department of health for temporary use related to the COVID-19 state of emergency","enforcement":"Civil immunity statute","functions":["context: the Legislature\u0027s own findings about COVID-19 operating exposure"],"notes":"Context only: the Governor\u0027s release of April 23, 2021 describes it as protecting \u0027health care providers, businesses and others from frivolous claims related to exposure to COVID-19\u0027. Not an order limiting commerce.","sourceUrl":"https://ndlegis.gov/assembly/67-2021/documents/21-0247-06000.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":69502,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"DUT-ND","url":"/library/ND-079","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/ND-079","citation":"Sixty-seventh Legislative Assembly (House Bill 1175); signed by Governor Burgum April 23, 2021, House Bill 1175 (2021), an emergency measure with retroactive application (cross-reference to the existing library exhibit) (Apr. 23, 2021) (Ex. ND-079)","stateName":"North Dakota","related":[]}