The Senate Judiciary Committee was mostly against the original SB 2367 on pre-divorce education, and turned it into a study, which was approved by the senate. Better connaisseurs of legislative language than I should tell us who "the legislative management is", and what, if anything, happens when the legislature says the legislative management shall consider studying" something.
Further status reports and textual massages at http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/62-2011/bill-index/bi2367.html
TEXT THAT PASSED SENATE:
A BILL to provide for a legislative management study relating to divorce reform and education.BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA:SECTION 1. LEGISLATIVE MANAGEMENT STUDY - DIVORCE REFORM AND EDUCATION. During the 2011-12 interim, the legislative management shall consider studying the physical, emotional, and financial effects associated with divorce involving dependentchildren. The legislative management shall offer legislative policy solutions, including divorc ereform legislation and marriage and relational education, which will lead to increasing the number of dependent children living in intact families. The legislative management shall report its findings and recommendations, together with any legislation required to implement therecommendations, to the sixty-third legislative assembly.
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