Session Review: Health and Human Services
Child welfare reform, licensure requirements and vaccine exemptions were among the measures considered by the Health and Human Services Committee this session.
Read MoreChild welfare reform, licensure requirements and vaccine exemptions were among the measures considered by the Health and Human Services Committee 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 MoreNebraska’s social studies education standards will be updated to include content on the Holocaust under a bill approved by lawmakers April 13.
Read MoreSenators passed an omnibus child welfare measure April 13.
Read MoreLawmakers passed a measure April 12 intended to improve access to mental and behavioral health services for Nebraska students.
Read MoreA bill on final reading intended to ensure that Nebraska students receive education on the Holocaust was amended to remove a provision related to slavery in America after lawmakers voted to return it to select file April 11.
Read MoreA bill intended to ensure that Nebraska students receive education on the Holocaust and other acts of genocide advanced to the final round of debate April 7 after lawmakers amended it to clarify which events those lessons would cover.
Read MoreA bill that would ban all abortions in Nebraska if states are given full regulatory authority over the procedure stalled on general file April 6 after an unsuccessful cloture motion.
Read MoreVeterans with a partial disability from a service-connected injury would qualify for a homestead exemption under a bill advanced from general file March 28.
Read MoreLawmakers gave first-round approval March 28 to a bill intended to improve access to mental and behavioral health services for public school students after amending it to include a proposed mental health first aid training program.
Read MoreSenators added provisions to an omnibus child welfare measure before giving it second round approval March 8.
Read MoreA bill intended to ensure Nebraska students receive education on the Holocaust before they graduate from high school advanced from general file March 1.
Read MoreA bill that would establish a work group to transform Nebraska’s child welfare system was amended to become an omnibus child welfare measure and advanced from general file Feb. 25.
Read MoreThe Education Committee heard testimony Feb. 22 on a bill intended to improve access to mental and behavioral health services for public school students.
Read MoreThe Health and Human Services Committee heard testimony Feb. 10 on a bill intended to streamline the process for certain children in Nebraska to obtain health insurance.
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