Changes to Penalties for Breaking Protection Orders
This bill changes the punishment levels in Nebraska law for people who break court orders meant to protect victims of domestic abuse, sexual assault, or harassment.
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This bill changes the punishment levels in Nebraska law for people who break court orders meant to protect victims of domestic abuse, sexual assault, or harassment.
This law updates rules for racetrack operations, betting deductions, bingo games including age limits and themes, lotteries, raffles, gift enterprises, and the administration of problem gambling support.
This law provides money from a specific fund to help pay for programs that assist people with gambling problems.
This bill lowers late filing fees for political committees and changes how some reports must be submitted.
This proposed law requires companies selling or leasing solar, wind, or battery systems to give home and small business owners a detailed written disclosure form at least thirty days before signing any contract.
This bill changes how Nebraska law defines beer, nonalcoholic beer, and near beer while adding rules about selling these drinks to minors.
This law allows all-terrain vehicles and utility-type vehicles to be driven on roads between sunset and sunrise if they meet specific lighting, insurance, and safety flag requirements.
This bill creates rules that stop businesses from using personal data, algorithms, or electronic signs to charge different prices to different people.
This bill updates Nebraska laws by banning certain unfair rental contract terms, limiting security deposit amounts, requiring landlords to return deposits if a lease is never signed, and setting rules for returning remaining balances.
This bill sets specific minimum amounts of money for property tax credits to help homeowners pay school taxes from 2024 through at least 2031 and explains how the funds are shared with counties.
This bill proposes changing the number of days a worker must wait before receiving workers' compensation payments for an injury.
This law sets new rules for public power suppliers when connecting very large electricity users that use more than twenty megawatts at one site.
This bill proposed updating the rules for how much money injured workers receive based on their wages and specific body parts lost, but it was not passed into law.
This bill changes state law so that physical therapists can claim a legal right to be paid from injury settlements, just like doctors and hospitals.
This bill sets rules requiring the Kearney youth center to treat only one gender at a time and the Geneva center to treat girls only, with an exception allowing both genders during emergencies.
This bill would allow limited liability companies to publish required legal notices on a Secretary of State website instead of only in newspapers, and it sets up a $20 fee for using the online option.
This bill redefines terms in the Employment Security Law, updates rules for calculating combined taxes and unemployment insurance rates, creates a fund under the Business Innovation Act, and changes provisions regarding legislative findings.
This bill requires the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services to apply for federal approval by July 1, 2026, to test paying for traditional healing services under Medicaid.
This bill sets a maximum amount of money that one person can give to a political candidate's committee during an election year.
This bill proposes to change state law by listing specific personal and political expenses that campaign committees are not allowed to pay for.
This bill requires county assessors to inspect property regularly for fair tax values and protects them from trespass charges when doing their job, unless they enter enclosed buildings without permission.
This law makes it illegal to use mobile tracking devices without consent, creates a new crime for swatting with restitution requirements, updates stalking definitions and penalties, bans drones in restricted areas, and changes probation rules for Class IV felonies.
This bill sets a tax rate of $3,518 per megawatt on renewable energy facilities and outlines how that money is collected by the state and shared with local community colleges and taxing entities.
This law removes the requirement for human relations training specifically for people applying for a Nebraska substitute teacher certificate.
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This bill requires Nebraska schools to teach specific lessons about communism in their social studies classes starting in the 2027-28 school year.
This bill proposes a monthly tax on social media companies that collect data from Nebraska users, with the money going to support mental health services for young people.
This bill stops electric suppliers from closing or changing certain power plants if customers are waiting for service, unless specific safety, legal, disaster, or cost reasons exist.
This bill requires electric suppliers to get approval before building most power plants or high-voltage lines, adds safety checks near military bases regarding foreign equipment, and changes rules for privately developed renewable energy projects.
This bill requires large animal feeding operations to register and update their waste plans, plant cover crops after applying waste unless perennial plants exist, and create grass buffers near waterways.
This law requires Nebraska colleges and universities to report money received from foreign adversaries to the Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education.
This bill proposes to set aside money from the state budget to help development districts in Nebraska.
This bill requires the Legislature to set aside money from a specific fund to pay mental health providers who treat patients eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid.
This law updates Nebraska adoption rules to recognize tribal customary adoptions, clarify consent requirements for parents and children, adjust how courts handle cases when juvenile courts are involved, and require adoptive parties to pay for birth parent legal counsel and counseling in private adoptions.
This bill sets aside $1 from the General Fund to help carry out another law, but it does not allow that money to be used for employee salaries.
This bill sets an income limit of 150% of the federal poverty level for energy aid and allows crisis payments up to $800, with higher amounts possible in special cases.
This bill states that schools must be safe and limits federal immigration officers from entering school grounds unless they have a valid judicial warrant.
This bill limits how much insurance companies can raise homeowners' rates in a single year and sets rules for filing new rating systems.
This bill proposes changing state law on when evidence of a person's past actions or character can be used in court cases.
This bill sets rules for getting refunds on tobacco taxes paid in exempt sales and requires the Governor to negotiate with federally recognized tribes about collecting these taxes.
This law lowers the maximum property tax school districts can collect starting in fiscal year 2026-27 and changes how taxes from gambling machines are shared between state funds, counties, and cities.
This bill requires school resource officers, security guards, and administrators to complete specific training, bans corporal punishment by these staff members, and mandates recordkeeping and policies regarding student interactions.
This bill updates rules for mental health commitment in Nebraska by defining who can file petitions and clarifying what makes a person 'mentally ill and dangerous.'
This bill requires cities, villages, and counties in Nebraska to allow at least one small extra home on the same lot as a single-family house while limiting what rules local governments can add.
This bill changes how insurance companies calculate payment limits when a person has coverage on more than one car or policy.
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This law updates rules for giving money to Nebraska businesses and individuals who are creating new products or bringing them to market.
This bill creates a state trust to fund repairs and modernization for public housing while ensuring the properties remain publicly owned.
This bill requires the State Board of Education to create a model policy allowing high school athletes in Nebraska to earn money from their name or image while keeping them eligible for sports.
This bill updates state laws to allow music bingo games, lowers prize limits for some events, and sets new rules for special event permits.
This law updates reporting rules for insurance companies and state agencies, sets fees for large livestock operations to fund environmental programs, creates a new Water Resources Cash Fund, removes labor negotiation reports, and ends the employee suggestion award system.
This bill requires the Legislative Fiscal Analyst to create economic impact reports for bills that lead to new rules, and it asks the Secretary of State to publish an annual list of rule changes.
This bill requires schools to test students in kindergarten through third grade on their reading skills and sets rules for keeping some third graders who cannot read at the expected level back in their grade.
This bill gives money to the State Department of Education to help carry out another law called LB1050.
This bill changes a state law definition for physician assistants and associates by removing extra words from the text.
This bill proposes updating state law so school boards can remove students from class for breaking rules, but it was not passed into law.
This bill would have removed the rule stopping schools from suspending students in pre-kindergarten through second grade, while keeping other discipline rules for serious offenses.
This bill proposed setting aside $250,000 from the state budget to help schools buy cybersecurity products and services.
This law requires state officials who handle adult protective services to complete specific training about caring for people with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.
This bill updates rules about who pays for medical care, how workers choose doctors, and benefit amounts in the state's workers' compensation system.