Child Welfare Investigative Committee, Debate on Governor Appointees and Budget Bills Headed to Floor Senators continue to debate priority bills and are gearing up to debate the budget, one of their major tasks for this legislative session. That along with some fireworks over a governor’s appointment to the Board of
Extended debate in the legislature today on a gubernatorial appointment to the Nebraska State Board of Health. The debate focused on the lack of diversity on the state’s boards and commissions. Nebraska’s nonprofit organizations and service providers can help ensure a wider reach of eligible Nebraskans by forwarding information about
Housing Protection Bill Advances, Student Restraint Bill Stalls and Debate Highlights With all-day floor debate well underway, we’re finally getting to the juicy parts of the legislative session. A lot happened this week as priority bills got their time on the agenda, and we finally got to see whether bills
Sen. John McCollister – who is a champion for expanded food assistance – wants to build organization support for his personal priority bill, LB 108 SNAP Cliff Effect Bill. It would increase the income limit for food assistance and enable people to transition off support as their income increases. The
A coalition of individuals and organizations supporting protections for meatpacking workers want to get at least 300 public comments on each of the meatpacking bills ASAP. The bill is LB 241 (Vargas) and is his personal priority bill. ALL Senators and staff can see the public comments, plus comments will
We are excited to invite you to participate in the 2021 Nebraska Nonprofit Advocacy Survey! This research is being conducted in partnership with the University of Nebraska Omaha (IRB # 413-18-EX). The information collected in this survey will be used by the research team to better understand nonprofit advocacy trends in Nebraska from the perspective of nonprofit leaders like you. The survey will take about 10
Virtual Meetings Bill Advances, First Filibuster, Speak Priority Bills Announced On Thursday, senators completed their first week of all-day floor debate. Most of the week’s debate was taken up by a filibuster of a bill to protect student journalists’ freedom of speech. The rest of session began to take shape,
Senators and legislative committees selected their priority bills for the legislative session. You can see the priority bill list here. Remember, each senator has one priority bill, while each committee has two. Speaker Hilgers selected 25 bills. These lists will determine which bills get “time on the floor” for debate
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