North Dakota's Senate Bill 2355 (PDF), introduced on January 24, 2025, would require the state superintendent of public instruction to "include intelligent design in the state science content standards for elementary, middle, and high school students."
The superintendent would also be required to "provide teachers with instructional materials demonstrating intelligent design is a viable scientific theory for the creation of all life forms and provide in-service training to include intelligent design as part of the science content standards."
In 2005's Kitzmiller v. Dover, a federal court concluded that the Dover Area School Board's policy requiring the teaching of "intelligent design" was unconstitutional, violating the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
The last legislative assault on the teaching of evolution in North Dakota was in 2019, where House Bill 1538, which would allow the misrepresentation of science in the classroom was filed and then withdrawn by its sponsor in the space of eight days, as NCSE previously reported.
The sponsors of Senate Bill 2355 are Michael Dwyer (District 47-R), Todd Beard (District 23-R), and David Hogue (District 38-R) in the Senate and Cynthia Schreiber-Beck (R-District 25), Mike Lefor (District 37-R), and Karen M. Rohr (D-District 31) in the House.