Lawmakers introduced 66 bills on Jan. 20.<\/p>\n
Among them were:<\/p>\n
LB442, sponsored by Lincoln Sen. Kate Bolz, which would appropriate additional funds to the Property Tax Credit Cash Fund;<\/p>\n
LB453<\/a>, sponsored by Omaha Sen. Robert Hilkemann, which would change provisions relating to motor vehicle taxes;<\/p>\n LB454<\/a>, sponsored by Bellevue Sen. Tommy Garrett, which would change provisions relating to the taxation of military retirement benefits;<\/p>\n LB455<\/a>, sponsored by Grand Island Sen. Mike Gloor, which would change provisions relating to employment of a full-time fire chief by cities of the first class;<\/p>\n LB460<\/a>, sponsored by Omaha Sen. Jeremy Nordquist, which would provide for the licensure of charter bus and limousine services and pedal-pub vehicles for the consumption of alcohol;<\/p>\n LB462<\/a>, sponsored by Hastings Sen. Les Seiler, which would change restrictions on campaigning by public officials and public employees;<\/p>\n LB472<\/a>, sponsored by Lincoln Sen. Kathy Campbell, which would adopt the Medicaid Redesign Act;<\/p>\n LB473<\/a>, sponsored by Omaha Sen. Ernie Chambers, which would eliminate the power of eminent domain for major pipelines;<\/p>\n LB477<\/a>, sponsored by Hyannis Sen. Al Davis, which would change provisions relating to school districts maintaining the only public high school in a county; and<\/p>\n LB495<\/a>, sponsored by Lincoln Sen. Patty Pansing Brooks, which would increase the earned income tax credit.<\/p>\n A complete list of bills introduced thus far is available at NebraskaLegislature.gov<\/a>. New bills may be introduced for the first 10 legislative days, or until Jan. 21. Committee hearings<\/a> began Jan. 20 and will continue through March.<\/p>\n Gov. Pete Ricketts\u2019 State of the State Address is scheduled for Jan. 22.<\/p>\n The session will last 90 legislative days and is tentatively scheduled to adjourn June 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lawmakers introduced 66 bills on Jan. 20. Among them were: LB442, sponsored by Lincoln Sen. Kate Bolz, which would appropriate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,167],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-15934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ceremonies","category-features","tag-sen-kate-bolz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15934"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15938,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15934\/revisions\/15938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}