Day six bill introduction

Senators reconvened Jan. 15 to continue introducing bills.

Among the bills introduced were:

LB902, sponsored by Bellevue Sen. Sue Crawford, which would exempt military retirement income from state income taxation;

LB904, sponsored by Omaha Sen. Rick Kolowski, which would create an endowment fund to provide grants for a black history museum and center;

LB907, sponsored by Omaha Sen. Brad Ashford, which would provide for supervised release, reentry probation officers, create the Nebraska Center for Justice Research and change presentence investigations and good time provisions;

LB908, sponsored by Lincoln Sen. Colby Coash, which would change child guardianship, ward and adoption for child out of wedlock provisions;

LB909, sponsored by Papillion Sen. Bill Kintner, which would require state agencies to submit to the Legislative Performance Audit Committee a list of certain rules and regulations and legislation requiring the rules and regulations

LB923, sponsored by Lincoln Sen. Amanda McGill, which would require training on suicide awareness and prevention for school personnel;

LB928, sponsored by the State Tribal Relations Committee, which would change provisions of the Nebraska Indian Child Welfare Act;

LB929, sponsored by Grand Island Sen. Mike Gloor, which would define a term with respect to cities of the first class police officers’ and firefighters’ retirement;

LB930, sponsored by Syracuse Sen. Dan Watermeier, which would require an operator’s presence at an excavation under the One-Call Notification System Act; and

LB932, sponsored by Lincoln Sen. Bill Avery, which would restrict public employer requests for criminal history information from an applicant.

A complete list of bills introduced thus far is available at NebraskaLegislature.gov. New bills may be introduced for the first 10 legislative days, or until Jan. 22. Committee hearings are scheduled to begin Jan. 21 and continue through February.

The session will last 60 legislative days and is tentatively scheduled to adjourn April 17.