{"id":36945,"date":"2025-01-09T13:54:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T19:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=36945"},"modified":"2025-01-15T14:27:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T20:27:54","slug":"bill-introduction-begins-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=36945","title":{"rendered":"Bill introduction begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senators reconvened Jan. 9 to begin introduction of new bills.<\/p>\n<p>Among the 81 measures introduced were:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskalegislature.gov\/bills\/view_bill.php?DocumentID=58830\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LB3<\/a>, sponsored by Sen. Loren Lippincott of Central City at the request of Gov. Jim Pillen, which would change provisions relating to selection of presidential electors;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskalegislature.gov\/bills\/view_bill.php?DocumentID=58017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LB6<\/a>, introduced by Lincoln Sen. Carolyn Bosn, which would provide for a penalty enhancement for a controlled substances violation resulting in serious bodily injury or death;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskalegislature.gov\/bills\/view_bill.php?DocumentID=59013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LB9<\/a>, sponsored by Sen. Jana Hughes of Seward, which would change provisions relating to cigarette taxes and the Tobacco Products Tax Act and provide for regulation of products containing nicotine analogues;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskalegislature.gov\/bills\/view_bill.php?DocumentID=58858\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LB12<\/a>, introduced by Lincoln Sen. George Dungan, which would change the statute of limitations on certain civil actions for sexual assault of a child;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskalegislature.gov\/bills\/view_bill.php?DocumentID=58943\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LB27<\/a>, sponsored by Sen. Beau Ballard of Lincoln, which would change provisions of the Rural Health Systems and Professional Incentive Act;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskalegislature.gov\/bills\/view_bill.php?DocumentID=59147\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LB49<\/a>, introduced by Omaha Sen. Terrell McKinney, which would provide for a model ban and bar policy for school districts;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskalegislature.gov\/bills\/view_bill.php?DocumentID=59242\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LB53<\/a>, sponsored by Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh of Omaha, which would provide criminal and civil immunity for pregnancy outcomes;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskalegislature.gov\/bills\/view_bill.php?DocumentID=58897\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LB63<\/a>, introduced by Plymouth Sen. Tom Brandt, which would redefine terms relating to sports wagering under the Nebraska Racetrack Gaming Act;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskalegislature.gov\/bills\/view_bill.php?DocumentID=59137\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LB73<\/a>, sponsored by Sen. Barry DeKay of Niobrara, which would change the number of hours of annual continuing education required for law enforcement officers; and<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskalegislature.gov\/bills\/view_bill.php?DocumentID=58825\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LB77<\/a>, introduced by Lincoln Sen. Eliot Bostar, which would adopt the Ensuring Transparency in Prior Authorization Act.<\/p>\n<p>A complete list of bills introduced thus far is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskalegislature.gov\/bills\/search_by_date.php?SessionDay=2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NebraskaLegislature.gov<\/a>. New bills may be introduced for the first 10 legislative days, or until Jan. 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators reconvened Jan. 9 to begin introduction of new bills. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36944,"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":false,"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[286],"class_list":["post-36945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ceremonies","tag-sen-loren-lippincott"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/NewBillsBrandt1-9-25a.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36945","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=36945"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36980,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36945\/revisions\/36980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}