The Nebraska Catholic Conference is taking positions on around 50 legislative bills during the 2025 legislative session. Look below to learn more about the bills we are supporting or opposing, as well as the "why" behind our position. We will continue updating our testimonies as each bill comes up for a legislative hearing. You can also see our positions on bills in prior legislative sessions.
Nebraska 109th Legislature (2025-2026)
Life and Human Dignity
LB66: Adopt the Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act
Introducer: Sen. Wendy DeBoer
Description:
Status Read our testimony here.
LB67: Require Abortifacient Emergency Contraception
Introducer: Sen. Jane Raybould
Description:
Status Read our testimony here.
LB124: Harmonize Motor Vehicle Fetal Homicide Laws
Introducer: Sen. Rick Holdcroft
Description:
Status Read our testimony here.
LB213: Require Fetal Development Curriculum
Introducer: Sen. Rick Holdcroft
Description:
Status Read our testimony here.
LB214: Safe Haven Baby Boxes
Introducer: Sen. Rick Holdcroft
Description:
Status Read our testimony here.
LB233: Mandate IVF Coverage in State-Sponsored Health Care Plans
Introducer: Sen. Danielle Conrad
Description:
Status Read our testimony here.
LB512: Adopt the Chemical Abortion Safety Protocol Act
Introducer: Sen. Rick Holdcroft
Description: LB512 would ensure that women and girls are protected from a profiteering abortion industry. It requires abortion facilities to screen women and girls up front for ectopic pregnancies, which if not identified could be life-threatening to the mother. It also requires a follow-up appointment to check for health complications and to begin compiling data about these complications.
Status Read our testimony here.
LB632: Provide Humane Disposition of Fetal Remains
Introducer: Sen. Ben Hansen
Description:
Status Read our testimony here.
LB669: Strengthen Informed Consent & Screening for Domestic Violence & Trafficking
Introducer: Sen. Tanya Storer
Description:
Status Read our testimony here.
LB655: Adopt Conscience Rights Protections for Health Care Professionals
Introducer: Sen. Dave Murman
Description: Prevents discrimination against health care professionals, health care institutions, and health care payors if they opt-out of a health care service or procedure based on conscience concerns (whether moral, ethical, or religious).
Status Read our testimony here.
Marriage, Family, & Human Sexuality
LB70: Allow Any Two People to Adopt
Introducer: Sen. Wendy DeBoer
Description:
Status Read our testimony here.
LB89: Adopt the Stand with Women Act
Introducer: Sen. Kathleen Kauth
Description: Provides protection for women and girls to keep their spaces private, safe, and exclusively for the female sex.
Status Read our testimony here.
LB157: Adopt the Child Tax Credit Act
Introducer: Sen. Danielle Conrad
Description:
Status Read our testimony here.
LB172: Criminal Prohibition on Computer-Generated Child Pornography
Introducer: Sen. Brian Hardin
Description: Provides needed updates to the Child Pornography Prevention Act by including realistic computer-generated images as a type of “visual depiction” that can be recognized as a form of child pornography, and prosecuted as such.
Status Read our testimony here.
LB367: Ban Talk Therapy
Introducer: Sen. Megan Hunt
Description:
Status Read our testimony here.
LB368: Adopt Youth in Care Bill of Rights
Introducer: Sen. Megan Hunt
Description: Creates a list of 'rights' for children in foster care that would conflict with and undermine the wishes and rights of biological parents, guardians, or foster parents.
Status Read our testimony here.
LB383: Adopt the Parental Rights in Social Media Act
Introducer: Sen. Tanya Storer
Description: Ensures that new social media accounts cannot be made unless the user is at least 18 years old or receives parents' permission.
Status Read our testimony here.
LB504: Adopt the Age-Appropriate Online Design Code Act
Introducer: Sen. Carolyn Bosn
Description: Ensures that online platforms, such as social media, have safeguards, limitations, and greater parental control of children's accounts to reduce addictive behaviors. And requires default settings that greatly reduce the chances of addiction to platforms and manipulation of children by others online.
Status Read our testimony here.
LB605: Allow Boys in Girls' Sports
Introducer: Sen. Jane Raybould
Description:
Status Read our testimony here.
LB709: Adopt the Adoption Tax Credit Act
Introducer: Sen. Eliot Bostar
Description: Creates the Nebraska Adoption Tax Credit program, and allows a refundable state income tax credit equal to 10% of the federal adoption tax credit, to help families who have adopted a child.
Status Read our testimony here.
LR5CA & LR6CA: Strike State Constitutional Protection of Marriage as between One Man & One Woman
Introducer: Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh
Description:
Status Read our testimony here.
Education
LB131: Expand 529 Accounts for K-12 Tuition Expenses
Introducer: Sen. Tony Sorrentino
Description:
Status Read our testimony here.
LB306: Allow Alternative College-Level Entry Exams for Scholarships
Introducer: Sen. Dave Murman
Description: Allows alternative college-level entry exams, such as the Classical Learning Test, to qualify for state-sponsored college scholarships.
Status Read our testimony here.
LB411: Expand Teacher Recruitment & Retention Grants
Introducer: Sen. George Dungan
Description:
Status Read our testimony here.
LB427: Create Educational Savings Accounts
Introducer: Sen. Bob Andersen
Description:
Status Read our testimony here.
LB481: Create the Foster Care Child Scholarships Act
Introducer: Sen. Beau Ballard
Description: Provides education scholarships to foster care children to assist them in selecting a school of their choice, with the goal of establishing educational stability and helping them flourish as a human person.
Status Read our testimony here.
LB509: Adopt the Scholarship Tax Credit Act
Introducer: Sen. Tony Sorrentino
Description: Provides increased scholarship opportunities for students, particularly low-income students, wanting to attend non-public schools by providing a state income tax credit to taxpayers who make contributions to non-profit scholarship granting organizations.
Status Read our testimony here.
LB481: Scholarship Funding for Option Enrollment Denials
Introducer: Sen. Christy Armendariz
Description:
Status Read our testimony here.
LB624: Appropriate State Funds for School Choice Scholarships
Introducer: Sen. Rob Dover
Description:
Status Read our testimony here.
LB631: Funding for School Emergency Response Mapping
Introducer: Sen. Ben Hansen
Description:
Status Read our testimony here.
LB633: Create Nebraska Option Enrollment Scholarship Fund
Introducer: Sen. Ben Hansen
Description:
Status Read our testimony here.
Social and Human Development
LB46: Authorize Restaurant Meals Program under Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Introducer: Sen. Terrell McKinney
Description: Expands the state's food assistance program to allow benefits received by those experiencing poverty to use these benefits to purchase prepared meals at a reduced price at qualified restaurants. This expansion would be most impactful to the elderly, the disabled, and the homeless, as they often have difficulties preparing meals.
Status Read our testimony here.
LB78: Housing Assistance for Victims of Domestic Violence & Trafficking
Introducer: Sen. Eliot Bostar
Description:
Status Read our testimony here. And also here.
LB153: Post-Partum Health Care Coverage for Mothers
Introducer: Sen. Dunixi Guereca
Description:
Status Read our testimony here.
LB181: Provide Young Adult Bridge to Independence Services for Immigrants
Introducer: Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh
Description: Allows undocumented immigrants who have been in the foster care system to gain eligibility for the state's Bridge to Independence program which provides case management, health care, and financial assistance to young adults transitioning from the child welfare system to independent living.
Status Read our testimony here.
LB192: Maintain Income Eligibility Standards for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Introducer: Sen. Dan Quick
Description: Eliminates a sunset on eligibility for the state's food assistance program, which would allow the program's eligibility to remain at 165% of the federal poverty level to obtain food assistance benefits.
Status Read our testimony here.
LB299: Provides Public Employment Benefits to Work-Authorized Immigrants
Introducer: Sen. Teresa Ibach
Description: Extends several important public employment benefits to immigrants who have legal federal work-authorization. These benefits include access to unemployment insurance which their employers pay into, retirement, education scholarships, and deferred compensation.
Status Read our testimony here.
LB301: Allow Work-Authorized Immigrants to Train & Serve as Law Enforcement Officers
Introducer: Sen. Teresa Ibach
Description:
Status Read our testimony here.
LB319: Food Access for Former Felons
Introducer: Sen. Victor Rountree
Description:
Status Read our testimony here.
LB320: Mandate Signage to Combat Human Trafficking
Introducer: Sen. Rita Sanders
Description:
Status Read our testimony here.
LB432: Allow Death Penalty through Nitrogen Hypoxia
Introducer: Sen. Loren Lippincott
Description:
Status Read our testimony here.
LB462: Changes to Child Abuse & Neglect Reporting
Introducer: Sen. Terrell McKinney
Description: Eliminates the state's universal mandatory reporter requirement for reporting child abuse and neglect and replaces it with a list of specific professionals as mandatory reporters.
Status Read our testimony here.
LB505: Increased Funding for Food Assistance
Introducer: Sen. Jason Prokop
Description:
Status Read our testimony here.
LB710: Increase the Earned Income Tax Credit
Introducer: Sen. Eliot Bostar
Description: Increases the state's earned income tax credit from 10% to 20% of the federal earned income tax credit, to provide increased tax relief and self-sufficiency for Nebraska's working poor.
Status Read our testimony here.
LR15CA: Abolish the Death Penalty
Introducer: Sen. Terrell McKinney
Description:
Status Read our testimony here.
LR20CA: Expanded Online Sports Gambling
Introducer: Sen. Eliot Bostar
Description:
Status Read our testimony here.
