R North Dakota Senate · District 3 On the 2026 ballot

Sen. Bob Paulson

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Total votes

1,990

all sessions

Attendance

100%

of floor votes

Higher than 84% of chamber peers

With party

92%

of cast votes

Near the chamber average

Bipartisan score

crosses aisle rarely

Near the chamber average

About Sen. Bob Paulson

Sen. serving North Dakota District 3. Member of the Republican party. Has been in office 3 years · 9 months. Serves on 4 committees, including Administrative Rules, Judiciary and Legislative Audit and Fiscal Review.

Sworn in

Dec 1, 2022

3 years · 9 months

Closest ally

no co-sponsorship data

How Bob votes, broken down

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Budget & Taxes 47% / 53%

30 support · 34 oppose

Healthcare 52% / 48%

13 support · 12 oppose

Education 42% / 58%

11 support · 15 oppose

Housing 33% / 67%

5 support · 10 oppose

Labor & Employment 29% / 71%

2 support · 5 oppose

Criminal Justice 78% / 22%

Transportation 50% / 50%

3 support · 3 oppose

Immigration 0% / 100%

0 support · 2 oppose

Environment 0% / 100%

0 support · 4 oppose

Energy 50% / 50%

2 support · 2 oppose

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Recent legislative activity

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Voted Yea

HB 1626AN ACT to amend and reenact subdivision d of subsection 1 of section 57-02-08.9, section 57-20-09, and subsection 1 of section 57-55-03 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to application of the primary residence credit and discount for early payment of tax; and to provide an effective date.

7 months ago

Voted Yea

HB 1625AN ACT to amend and reenact section 15-10-64 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to the sale of the Ray Richards golf course; to provide an appropriation; and to provide an effective date.

7 months ago

Voted Yea

HB 1622AN ACT to create and enact chapter 43-17.5 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to the physician assistant licensure compact; to amend and reenact section 43-17-01, subsection 1 of section 43-17-02.1, and sections 43-17-02.2 and 43-17-46 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to the requirements of physician assistants privileged to practice under the physician assistant licensure compact; and to provide an effective date.

7 months ago

Voted Nay

HB 1624A BILL for an Act to create and enact two new sections to chapter 15.1-07 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to offering school breakfast and lunch at no cost and the school meals fund; to provide an appropriation; to provide for a transfer; and to provide an effective date.

7 months ago

Voted Yea

7 months ago

Voted Yea

HB 1623AN ACT to provide an appropriation to the department of health and human services for federal rural health transformation program grant funds; to provide an appropriation to the Bank of North Dakota to administer a loan program; to provide for a transfer; to amend and reenact section 6-09-47 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to a rural health loan program under the medical facility infrastructure loan fund; to provide an exemption; to provide for a legislative management report; to provide for application; to provide a report; and to provide an effective date.

7 months ago

Voted Yea

HB 1621AN ACT to amend and reenact subsection 1 of section 15.1-21-01 and section 15.1-21-02 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to requiring the presidential physical fitness test in physical education courses in elementary, middle, and high schools and providing exceptions to the test; and to provide an effective date.

7 months ago

Voted Yea

SB 2404AN ACT to provide appropriations to the information technology department and public service commission; to provide contingent loan authorization; and to provide an effective date.

7 months ago

Voted Yea

SB 2403AN ACT to amend and reenact section 6-09-47 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to a medical facility emergency operating loan program under the medical facility infrastructure loan fund; to provide an appropriation; to provide a transfer; to provide an effective date; and to provide an expiration date.

7 months ago

Voted Yea

SB 2402AN ACT to create and enact two new sections to chapter 43-15 and a new subsection to section 43-48-03 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to the prescriptive authority of pharmacists and therapeutic substitution; to amend and reenact subsection 1 of section 26.1-36.11-01 and section 43-15-01 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to the scope of practice of pharmacists; to repeal section 43-15-25.3 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to approved laboratory tests; and to provide an effective date.

7 months ago