AGP Executive Report
Last update: 2 hours agoUnicameral Watch: State Sen. Dan Lonowski backed LB852, letting counties recapture Convention Center Support Fund money if recipients move operations out of high-poverty areas within three years. Government Oversight: State Sen. Beau Ballard and Sen. Rick Holdcroft both voted Yes on LB1048, streamlining and cutting back a range of state agency reporting requirements and eliminating the Suggestion Award Board/employee suggestion system. Education Policy: Sen. Dave Wordekemper voted Yes on LB1022, removing “human relations” training from Nebraska substitute teacher certification. Courts & Public Safety: Sen. Myron Dorn voted Yes on LB935, reshaping court fees and procedures and adding new rules around no-contact periods and certain offenses. Workers’ Comp: Sen. Beau Ballard voted Yes on LB455, tightening injury-reporting timelines and making workers’ compensation injury reports confidential with limited exceptions. Housing Enforcement: Sen. Terrell McKinney voted Yes on LB888, increasing and restructuring penalties for modular and manufactured housing violations. Medicaid: Sen. Dunixi Guereca voted Yes on LB929, allowing managed care organizations to cover Medicaid cost-sharing. Election Law: A judge dismissed an RNC challenge to Nebraska’s overseas-voting law, leaving it in place. Federal Pressure: DOJ sued New York, Connecticut and Vermont over in-state tuition for certain immigrants, continuing a broader push that has already hit Nebraska in court.
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