Legislative Update – June 3, 2025
Legislature Adjourns Sine Die Yesterday, the Nebraska Legislature adjourned Sine Die for the year, after a productive session that included the closing of an over $350 million budget deficit, the implementation of the paid sick leave and minimum wage ballot measures and protection of the continued phase-in of the historic income and corporate tax cuts. […]
Legislative Update – May 16, 2025
Yesterday marked the 80th day of the 90-day legislative session. As you might recall from previous session updates, it was also the deadline for completion of the budget process. As such, the Legislature passed the budget package, consisting of two mainline bills, LB261 and LB264, which were then sent to Governor Pillen. This concludes a […]
Legislative Update April 4, 2025
This week, the Legislature completed their hearing schedule, and have moved to all day floor debate, which will continue through the end of session on June 2. As of this morning, the Legislature has passed and the Governor has signed 53 bills. They have also approved an additional 25 bills which are waiting for action […]
Legislative Update March 21, 2025
Next week marks the end of the legislative hearing process, and the Legislature will be moving to all-day floor debate starting in April. During the month, the Appropriations Committee will continue to meet privately to complete its work on the budget package, which is scheduled to be placed on General File on April 29th and […]
Legislative Update – March 5, 2025
We are now more than a third of the way through the Legislative session. This phase of session involves the start of the budget process, the final month of hearings and the initial batch of floor bills moving through the three rounds of debate. Additionally, with the Omaha Municipal Elections upcoming in the spring, it’s […]
Legislative Update – February 10, 2025
Today marks day 22 of the legislative session, and as we move deeper into the session calendar, bills have begun to advance from committee onto the floor for general file debate. In total, 715 bills were introduced this session, and as of this week, 36 have advanced for debate in front of the full legislature. […]
Status of Session – GOC Update, January 16, 2025
Nebraska state senators returned to the State Capitol last week to begin the 109th Legislative Session. The 2025 session brings in 17 new senators to the 49-member body. Since this is the first year of the biennium, the legislation session will last 90 working days and conclude on June 9th. During this time, the Nebraska […]
Status of the Session – April 9, 2024
The final days of the legislative session are always known for a few things: long agendas, late nights, frantic compromise discussions, and lots of crazy turns, frequently about things that seem to come out of nowhere. We’ve seen all of those things in the waning days of the 2024 session, and with only four scheduled […]
Legislative Update – March 20, 2024
The Legislature is hitting the home stretch in the 2024 session. While there are only 14 working days left, in real time that stretches out to almost four more weeks. Senators began working into the evening and late nights on Mondays and are scheduled to do so approximately three nights per week for the remainder […]
Legislative Update – March 5, 2024
Today is the 38th day of the Legislature’s 60-day session. Last week was the final week of regularly scheduled committee hearings. Full day floor debate commenced yesterday. Senators have been advancing a fair number of bills during morning debate. The Governor has approved 15 measures, and 36 more await a final vote by senators. This has […]