he Nebraska Legislature on Friday will consider a motion to suspend the rules to revisit LR 14, which was indefinitely postponed earlier this session after failing to receive enough votes to be pulled [...]
LB 298, a bill on the Legislature's agenda today, would extend Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients, individuals with Temporary Protected Status (TSP) and asylum seekers. This common-sense [...]
LB 64, a bill slated for second-round debate on today’s legislative agenda, is a costly measure that would give wealthy retirees a sizable tax break under the premise of keeping them from fleeing [...]
In an opinion piece in the Omaha World-Herald, OpenSky Executive Director Renee Fry writes that supporting Nebraskans who have been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic is a higher priority for the [...]
Two measures on the Legislature’s Tuesday agenda -- LB 132 and LB 454 -- seek to address Nebraska’s historical overreliance on property taxes to fund K-12 education. LB 132: A commonsense approach to addressing property-tax reliance As we [...]
A measure on today’s Legislative agenda, LB 132, would create the School Finance Review Commission. LB 132 presents a common-sense solution to Nebraska’s high reliance on property taxes. The issues contributing to our high [...]
Under LB 364, a bill before lawmakers today to create a tax credit for donations to private school scholarship programs, those who give to scholarship granting organizations would get a 14.5 times greater [...]
LB 388, a measure to expand broadband access in Nebraska, and LB 108, which would increase access to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), are on the Legislature’s agenda today. LB 388 with AM 530 -- [...]
LB 108, as amended by AM 975, could help Nebraskans continue to put food on the table as they advance in the workplace, effectively incentivizing Nebraska workers to continue to strive for [...]
LB 432, as amended by AM 774, will be up for debate early this week and would give a sizable tax cut to corporations and their shareholders. While the vast majority of the [...]