Omnibus liquor bill amended, advanced
A proposal related to liquor importation in Nebraska was amended to become an omnibus liquor bill and advanced from general file March 13.
Read moreA proposal related to liquor importation in Nebraska was amended to become an omnibus liquor bill and advanced from general file March 13.
Read moreThe Education Committee heard testimony Feb. 28 on a bill intended to help Nebraska teachers control violent and disruptive students.
Read moreThe state would assume responsibility for funding community colleges under a bill heard Feb. 2 by the Revenue Committee.
Read moreThe Education Committee heard testimony Jan. 31 on a bill intended, in part, to ensure parental access to learning materials and curriculum in public schools.
Read moreSenators introduced 190 measures on the final day of bill introduction Jan. 18.
Read moreSenators reconvened Jan. 12 to continue introduction of new bills.
Read moreTwenty-six members of the Legislature were sworn into office Jan. 4 as the 108th Nebraska Legislature convened for its 90-day first session. That number includes nine re-elected senators, 16 newly elected senators — including two members who have served in the Legislature previously — and one newly appointed senator.
Read morePharmacy benefit managers, clinician-administered medication and expanded Medicare eligibility topped the list of issues heard by the Banking, Commerce and Insurance Committee and addressed by the Legislature this session.
Read moreAmong the proposals advanced by the Revenue Committee this session is a package of bills that cut individual and corporate income tax rates, speed up the phaseout of state taxation of Social Security income and expand a program intended to offset property taxes used to fund education.
Read moreAdditional tax incentives are available for certain livestock modernization or expansion projects and other qualifying rural Nebraska businesses under a bill passed by lawmakers April 13.
Read moreLawmakers passed a bill April 12 that makes a number of changes to laws governing insurance in Nebraska.
Read moreLawmakers scaled back three tax-related measures on select file April 11 to reduce a projected budget deficit at the end of the next fiscal biennium.
Read moreA bill that would increase the amount of tax incentives available for certain livestock modernization or expansion projects and other qualifying rural Nebraska businesses advanced from general file April 7.
Read moreA bill that would ban all abortions in Nebraska if states are given full regulatory authority over the procedure was placed on general file March 25 after a successful procedural motion.
Read moreLawmakers gave first-round approval March 23 to a bill that would appropriate the $1.04 billion allocated to Nebraska from federal pandemic relief funds after approving several amendments that altered individual allocations within the proposal.
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