North Dakota House Bill 1514 failed in the House in 2025, proposing to ban cloud seeding, weather engineering, and stratospheric aerosol injection as Class C felonies with $500000 fines, while establishing a citizen complaint system requiring sheriffs to investigate suspected atmospheric activities within 2 hours.
The bill was defeated on the floor after a negative committee recommendation.
North Dakota Senate Bill 2106 failed in the Senate in 2025, proposing to ban all weather modification, including cloud seeding, as a Class B misdemeanour while repealing the state's entire county-based weather modification regulatory framework.
The bill was defeated on the floor after a committee "do pass" recommendation.
North Dakota House Bill 1166 passed the House in 2023 but failed in the Senate requiring cloud seeding operations to stop when seeded storms cross into counties without active weather modification programs and restructuring county weather modification authority procedures.
House passed, Senate committee neutral, full Senate failed.