​During the 2025 Legislative Session, TAP tracked 27 bills that would impact the travel and tourism industry to varying degrees. It lobbied against bills that would have a negative impact on the third-largest industry in the state, and lobbied for those that were beneficial to the Tourism and Marketing Division and its partners.

 

TAP  helped defeat SB 2035, which would have eliminated tourism and convention and visitors bureaus as eligible for conducting charitable gaming. It also fought to have Destination Development Grants put back into SB 2018 after they were removed for budgetary purposes late in the session. The legislature ultimately settled on $15 million. Other funding in  SB 2018:

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• $5 million for tourism marketing awareness

• $15 million for Destination Development Grants

• $1 million for a Medora transportation improvement grant

• $500,000 for a Fargo Theatre restoration grant (1:1 state-to-private match)

• $250,00 for the Ellendale Opera House

• $250,000 for Mystic Theatre in Marmarth

• $175,000 for Driscoll Community Hall restoration

• $2 million for children’s science museums in Grand Forks and Fargo; $1 million each at such time that Strategic Investment and Improvement Funds (SIIF) reaches $402 million during the 2025-27 biennium

• $350,000 for a State Fair sanitation restoration project

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It also worked on funding in HB 1018, the funding for the State Historical Society of North Dakota. That included:

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• $77.9 million for Heritage Center Military Gallery ($38.7 million contingent on equal outside pledges)

• $2 million for America’s 250th celebration ($1 million state; $1 million Medora)

• $2 million Medora area planning

• $700,000 for Heritage Center Inspiration Gallery updates

• $638,000 for Pembina State Museum exhibits

• $200,000 Sargent County Museum repairs (2:1 state-to-private match)

• $100,000 Williston Armory restoration (2:1 state-to-private match)

• $100,000 Department of Transportation grant to fund the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center at Washburn​