N.D. Cent. Code § 50-06-01.1
When the terms "public welfare board of North Dakota", "social service board of North Dakota", "executive director of the public welfare board", "executive director of the social service board", "department of human services", or "executive director of the department of human services", "member of the public welfare board", or "member of the social service board", or any derivative of those terms which, when used in context indicates an intention to refer to those persons or that board, appear in the North Dakota Century Code, the term "department of health and human services", or the term "commissioner of the department of health and human services", as the case may be, must be substituted therefor. It is the intent of the legislative assembly that the department of health and human services must be substituted for, shall take any action previously to be taken by, and shall perform any duties previously to be performed by the public welfare board of North Dakota, by the social service board of North Dakota, by the department of human services, or by the state department of health. The legislative council may replace references to the "department of human services" or "executive director of the department of human services" or any derivatives of those terms with "department of health and human services" or "executive director of the department of health and human services" in any measure enacted by the sixty-seventh legislative assembly. The legislative council may replace references to the "executive director of the department of human services" or any derivatives of those terms with "commissioner of the department of health and human services or designee" in any measure enacted by the sixty-eighth legislative assembly.
N.D.C.C. § 50-06-01.1