{"id":40870,"date":"2026-04-10T07:25:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T13:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=40870"},"modified":"2026-04-10T07:25:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T13:25:44","slug":"county-distress-warrant-fee-increased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=40870","title":{"rendered":"County distress warrant fee increased"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senators gave final approval April 9 to a measure aimed at helping counties cover the cost of collecting delinquent taxes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37089\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37089\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37089\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=37089\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenLonowski_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"200,300\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Office of University Communication&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS R5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Dan Lonowski, District 33. Legislature - 2025 Incoming Senators. November 20, 2024. Photo by Craig Chandler \/ University Communication.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1729275045&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2019, The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. All rights reserved.&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;147&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Mark Wilkins Lab&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenLonowski_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Dan Lonowski&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Dan Lonowski&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenLonowski_inline.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenLonowski_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37089\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenLonowski_inline.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Dan Lonowski\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37089\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Dan Lonowski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>County sheriffs collect a fee for distress warrants issued to collect delinquent taxes on personal property, plus a $1 levy fee, a mileage charge and a commission on any taxes collected.<\/p>\n<p>The charges are assessed against the debtor and are credited by a county treasurer to the county\u2019s general fund.<\/p>\n<p>LB900, sponsored by Hastings Sen. Dan Lonowski, increases the fee for issuing a distress warrant from $2 to $20.<\/p>\n<p>The measure also eliminates the $1 levy fee as well as a requirement to prorate mileage among trips when sheriffs serve multiple warrants at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>For taxes collected by distress and sale, counties may collect a 10% commission on amounts not exceeding $500, an increase from $100. An 8% commission applies to amounts exceeding $500, also an increase from $100.<\/p>\n<p>LB900 passed 33-14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators gave final approval April 9 to a measure aimed at helping counties cover the cost of collecting delinquent taxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36724,"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":[17],"tags":[307],"class_list":["post-40870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-revenue","tag-sen-dan-lonowski"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/UpdateBlogPhoto-3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40870","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=40870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40871,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40870\/revisions\/40871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}