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Read. Follow. Verify.Nebraska Legislature Adopts Permanent Operating Rules for the One Hundred Ninth Legislature
Last action · June 6, 2025: Provisions/portions of LB274 amended into LB257 by AM947
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What This Bill Proposed
The Nebraska Unicameral Legislature formally adopted its permanent operating rules on January 24, 2025, governing internal procedures, committee jurisdictions, bill processing, and officer responsibilities for the 2025-2026 legislative biennium.
Establishes the procedural framework and internal rules under which lawmakers introduce bills, conduct committee hearings, manage floor debate, and appropriate state funds during the 2025-2026 legislative session.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
State Senators
State senators must comply with rules regarding speaking time limits, bill introduction caps, priority bill designations, and chamber conduct.
Legislative Committees
Committees must follow mandatory procedures for public hearing notices, reporting deadlines, and quorum requirements.
Key Facts
- The permanent rules govern the Legislature for a period of two years following adoption by a majority vote of the elected members.
- The Speaker is authorized to designate up to 25 priority bills and up to five major proposals during each legislative session.
- Individual members are limited to introducing no more than 20 bills at any one session starting with the 2025 legislative session, while each standing committee is limited to 10 bills.
- Standing committees are required to hold a public hearing and provide at least seven calendar days' notice by publication in the Legislative Journal before taking final action on a bill.
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- The Legislative Fiscal Analyst must prepare a fiscal note for each bill prior to its public hearing or first consideration on General File, setting forth the anticipated fiscal impact.
- All bills not designated as priority bills are heard on General File in the order in which they are reported to the floor by committees, unless delayed by agreement between the introducer and the Speaker.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Withdrawn.
Procedural history
11 actions- Jun 6, 2025Nebraska LegislatureProvisions/portions of LB274 amended into LB257 by AM947
- Jun 2, 2025Nebraska LegislatureMotion to suspend rules to indefinitely postpone withdrawn
- Jun 2, 2025Nebraska LegislatureMotion to suspend rules to indefinitely postpone filed
- Jun 2, 2025Nebraska LegislatureMotion to suspend rules to indefinitely postpone prevailed
- Jun 2, 2025Nebraska LegislatureIndefinitely postponed
- May 30, 2025Nebraska LegislatureMotion to suspend rules to indefinitely postpone filed
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- Mar 26, 2025Nebraska LegislaturePlaced on General File with AM84
- Mar 26, 2025Nebraska LegislatureHealth and Human Services AM84 filed
- Jan 24, 2025Nebraska LegislatureNotice of hearing for February 05, 2025
- Jan 17, 2025Nebraska LegislatureReferred to Health and Human Services Committee
- Jan 15, 2025Nebraska LegislatureDate of introduction
Version history
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 40)
- Controversy10Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
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