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 […]
Legislative Update – February 12, 2024
Monday, February 12th is the 26th legislative day and begins seventh week of the 2024 session. Senators are continuing morning floor debate on legislative measures mostly introduced in 2023, while continuing committee hearings in the afternoon through February 28th. Over the week, committees will hold hearings on 130 bills, two department funding requests, and four […]
Legislative Update – January 22, 2024
Last week saw the end of bill introduction. When it was all over, senators added 597 new bills, 11 proposed constitutional amendments and two substantive resolutions. The last day of bill introduction always brings us a small sigh of relief, as the universe of proposed legislation closes and we all can get a better handle […]