One of the bills that I co-signed this year is LB 712. This bill is important because it would help with the needs of the Panhandle once they add an additional 3,000 people to the workforce for a new ballistic missile upgrading project.  LB 712 was introduced by Sen. Brian Hardin of Gering.  Seldom does the […]

This week marks the last week of bill hearings for the Nebraska Legislature. On March 28, the Unicameral will move to all-day, and potentially, evening debates. This past week we passed several milestones. Priority designations have been made. Senators were asked to designate their one priority bill by Tuesday, the same deadline for each committee […]

It appears the relentless, nearly month-long rolling filibuster in the Nebraska Legislature may soon end. Just before the St. Patrick’s Day recess day, Speaker John Arch announced a course of action to address Sen. Michaela Cavanaugh’s disruption of the session. She opposes Sen. Kathleen Kauth’s LB 574 which would ban “gender affirming care” where children […]

This past week, LB 753 received the necessary votes to invoke cloture after eight hours of debate and then received 31 votes to move the bill to Select File. LB 753 creates the Opportunity Scholarships Act and allows individual and corporate taxpayers to qualify for a non-refundable tax credit equal to the amount the taxpayer […]

The Nebraska State Board of Education (SBOE) meet March 2-3 in Lincoln. The meeting began with a presentation on the Nebraska Department of Education’s use of federal COVID relief funds. Ninety percent of the funds were dispersed to individual school districts. The NDE focused the use of statewide funds on unfinished teaching and learning acceleration. […]