PRIORITY BILLS HAVE BEEN DESIGNATED!
Priority bills become the focus of the remaining 45 days (50%) of the 2021 Legislative Session, the probabilities of any of these bills being voted out of committee is now down in the 5% to 10% range! (Caution: these bills will carry over to 2022 and can be voted out of committee for floor debate in early January, so we will need to keep a watchful eye on them next year).
Here are the other legislative bills NAGO members were opposing:
LEGISLATIVE BILL or LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION
Oppose – LB183 – Hunt: Discipline against hospitals on Sex Assault Emergency Care
Oppose – LB20 – Blood: Insurance for contraception
Oppose – LB229 – Hunt: Provide enhanced penalties for crimes done to sogi people
Oppose – LB230 – Hunt: Prohibit discrimination regarding gender identity
Oppose – LB231 – Hunt: Prohibit conversion therapy
Oppose – LB276 – Hunt: Physician need not be present at an abortion
Oppose – LB447 – M. Cavanaugh: Mandatory Immunizations of children in Licensed Day Care
Oppose – LB517 – Hunt: Gender neutral designation on Driver’s License/Birth Certs
Oppose – LB625 – Vargas: Early childhood education paid by tax surcharge
Oppose – LB67 – Day: Change provisions for school-based clinics
Oppose – LB89 – Morfeld: Health care decisions for children without parents
Oppose – LB97 – DeBoer: Minor children to be adopted by unmarried persons
Oppose – LR20CA – P-Brooks: Remove provisions regarding marriage
Oppose – LR27CA – M. Hansen: More power to gov’t before/after pandemic
Thank You to NAGO members who traveled to the Capitol to testify or emailed their letter of opposition!
Here are the other legislative bills NAGO members were supporting:
LEGISLATIVE BILL or LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION
Suppoert – LB111 – Albrecht: First Responder Protection Act
Suport – LB112 – Albrecht: Citizens’ right to speak using Open Meetings Act
Support – LB133 – Erdman: EPIC Consumption Tax (nuts & bolts bill)
Support – LB167 – Geist: Protect Religious Freedoms
Support – LB282 – Albrecht: Repeal Obscenity Exemption K-12 students
Support – LR2CA – Wayne: Legalize cannabis for adults 21 years and older
Support – LB36 – Erdman: In God We Trust national motto in all Nebraska classrooms
Support – LB435 – B. Hansen: Require official watermark on federal election ballots
Support – LB643 – B. Hansen: Liberty to accept or reject mandatory health directive
Support – LR11CA – Erdman: EPIC Consumption Tax
Support – LR3CA – Slama: Constitutional amendment for voter identity
Support – LB684 – Clements: School employees may leave labor unions at any time
THE LARGEST CHALLENGE OF THE LAST 45 DAYS
Tuesday will be the 45th day of this legislative session which equals the midpoint of this 90-day session. Time will be tight for the rest of the session as the Speaker lengthened the amount of time for floor debate to 8 hours for General File, 4 hours for Select file, and 2 hours for Final Reading for a potential maximum of 14 hours per bill.
The quick math is 102 priority bills X 14 hours / bill = 1,428 potential hours needed for floor debate if every bill takes all 14 hours of debate time.
45 days X 8 hours of floor debate / day = 360 hours left
Less: estimated hours for budget debate = 100 hours
Equals hours left for debate on non-budget items = 260 hours
260 hours available = 18% of needed time for all bills at 8 hours/bill
1,428 hours needed
NEXT ACTION STEPS:
NAGO Leaders will now review the list of prioritized bills to define the LBs that we want to support and the LBs that we want to oppose for the remainder of this session. Our goal will be to have that list to you later this week.
Click on the first red button for the list of all 102 Priority Bills.