the district court properly included employer-paid benefits as gross income under N.D.C.C. § 14-09-09.10(8) and N.D. Admin. Code § 75-02-04.1-01(5) in determining the proper child support obligation. We affirm the district court’s judgment. [¶ 23] MARING and MESCHKE, JJ., concur. 1 . We note Shipley v. Shipley, 509 N.W.2d 49, 53 (N.D. 1993), which first included certain employer benefits in gross income under N.D. Admin. Code § 75-02-04.1-01(2) was decided more than a year before the 1995 Legislative Assembly and three years before the 1997 Legislative Assembly. Shaver v. Kopp, 545 N.W.2d 170, 175 (N.D.1996), which also included employer benefits in gross income was issued more than 9 months before the 1997 Legislative Assembly. See Hassan v. Brooks, 1997 ND 150, ¶ 7, 566 N.W.2d 822 (<HOLDING>). We also note the Department of Human Services
holding that whether the legislature has complied with article iii section 61 of the texas constitution which states that the legislature shall provide suitable laws for the administration of workers compensation insurance for municipalities is a political question committed to the legislature holding that a statutory right is a creature of the legislature and does not exist where the legislature has not acted holding that when the legislature enacts a statute it is presumed that the legislature is aware of existing statutes holding that in order for there to be state debt in the constitutional sense one legislature in effect must obligate a future legislature to appropriate funds to discharge the debt created by the first legislature holding that the court assumes the legislature acquiesced in our interpretation of the language because the legislature had not amended the language