Introduced by Senator Jim Scheer. Eliminate prohibition on teachers wearing religious garb.
Status: Signed into law!

Introduced by Senator Patty Pansing Brooks. Increase the earned income tax credit.
Status: In committee.

Introduced by Senator Robert Hilkemann. Adopt the Education Savings Account Act and provide income tax adjustments.
Status: In committee.

Introduced by Senator Mike Groene. Change eligibility provisions relating to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Status: In committee.

Introduced by Senator Adam Morfeld. Increase the earned income tax credit.
Status: In committee.

Introduced by Senator Sara Howard. Change provisions relating to the paternity of a child conceived as a result of sexual assault.
Status: Amended in LB289, signed into law.

Introduced by Senator Tony Vargas. Change provisions of the Credit Services Organization Act, Delayed Deposit Services Licensing Act, and Nebraska Installment Loan Act.
Status: Signed into law!

Introduced by Senator Patty Pansing Brooks. Change provisions and penalties relating to pandering, human trafficking, labor trafficking, and sex trafficking and prohibit solicitation of a trafficking victim.
Status: Signed into law!

Introduced by Senator Jim Smith, Prioritized by Lou Ann Linehan. Creates scholarship opportunities for low-income and working-class families to attend the parochial or private school of their choice.
Status: One round of debate. Not enough votes to overcome a filibuster.

Introduced by Senator Adam Morfeld. Eliminate an eligibility provision relating to nutrition assistance benefits as prescribed.
Status: In committee.

Adopt the Palliative Care and Quality of Life Act.
Status: Signed into law!

Create and provide duties for the Whiteclay Public Health Emergency Task Force.
Status: Signed into law!

Introduced by Senator Ernie Chambers. Repeals the death penalty and replaces it with life imprisonment.
Status: Still in committee.

Introduced by Senator Lou Ann Linehan. Provides students belonging to the state’s “lowest performing schools” an opportunity to take some of their education funding to the school of their family’s choice, including approved or accredited parochial or private schools.
Status: Still in committee.

Introduced by Senator Theresa Thibodeau. Creates regulatory oversight for so-called “bottle clubs” which engage in immoderate alcohol consumption that affect public safety and often engage in illicit sexual activity.
Status: Amended into LB1120, presented to the governor for signing.

Introduced by Senator Lydia Brasch. Allows for certain state income tax benefits when using “529 education savings plans” that are used for K-12 tuition costs.
Status: In committee.

Introduced by Senator Sara Howard. Provide for state funding of prenatal care under the medical assistance program.
Status: In committee.

Introduced by Senator Lynne Walz. Create a Collaborative School Behavioral and Mental Health Program.
Status: Presented to governor for signature.

Introduced by Senator Tony Vargas. Requires law enforcement agencies that enter into an immigration enforcement agreement with the federal government to notify the local governing body and provide for a public hearing about the agreement.
Status: Voted out of committee.

Introduced by Senator Patty Pansing Brooks. Provides “set-asides” of criminal convictions for victims of human trafficking if the conviction was connected to when the victim was being trafficked.
Status: Signed into law!

Introduced by Senator Paul Schumacher. Expands taxpayer-funded and government-provided contraception to low-income women and men.
Status: Still in committee.

Introduced by Senator Adam Morfeld. Creates new protected classes for sexual orientation and gender identity in public accommodations, housing, and employment.
Status: Debated on floor. There was no vote.

Introduced by Senator Tom Briese. Change and eliminate revenue and taxation provisions.
Status: In committee.

Introduced by Senator Ernie Chambers. Legalizes doctor-prescribed suicide for terminally ill patients.
Status: Still in committee.

Senator John Kuehn. Provide for confidentiality of information relating to performing a lethal injection.
Status: One round of debate. No vote.

Introduced by Senator Tony Vargas. Description: Redefines the terminology that would be used in marriage solemnization ceremonies by removing “husband and wife” and replacing it with “spouses”.
Status: In committee.

Introduced by Senator Adam Morfeld. Protect student journalists' and student media advisers' rights of and freedom of speech and of the press.
Status: In committee.

Introduced by Senator Patty Pansing Brooks. Violates a psychologist’s professional judgment and faith-based convictions regarding marriage and human sexuality, by creating new protected classes of non-discrimination for sexual orientation and gender identity.
Status: In committee.

Textbook Loan Program reduction in the mainline budget.
Status: Signed into law.

Introduced by Senator Tom Briese. Adopt the Property Tax Request Limitation Act, provide sunset dates for certain tax exemptions and incentives, and change other revenue and taxation provisions.
Status: In committee.