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Read. Follow. Verify.Nebraska Legislature Proposes Eliminating Tax Exemptions and Taxing Services
Last action · April 17, 2026: Indefinitely postponed
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What This Bill Proposed
Nebraska Bill 169 proposes eliminating certain exemptions while imposing sales and use tax on specified services. The measure sets forth legislative provisions aimed at modifying state revenue structures through tax policy changes.
Tax obligations shift for purchasers and providers of currently exempt goods and services within the 109th Legislature session, altering state revenue collection and taxpayer costs.
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.
Nebraska taxpayers and consumers
Tax obligations change as certain exemptions are removed and new services are subjected to sales and use taxes.
Providers of affected services
Service providers must collect and remit sales tax on services that were previously untaxed.
Key Facts
- The bill is designated as LB169 within the 109th Legislature session.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died in committee.
Procedural history
14 actions- Apr 17, 2026Nebraska LegislatureIndefinitely postponed
- Jan 7, 2026Nebraska LegislatureTitle printed. Carryover bill
- Apr 30, 2025Nebraska LegislatureRaybould AM1231 to AM965 filed
- Apr 11, 2025Nebraska LegislaturePlaced on General File with AM965
- Apr 11, 2025Nebraska LegislatureRevenue AM965 filed
- Mar 31, 2025Nebraska LegislatureMurman name added
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- Mar 20, 2025Nebraska LegislatureCavanaugh, M. MO117 Bracket until May 30, 2025 filed
- Mar 20, 2025Nebraska LegislatureCavanaugh, M. MO118 Recommit to the Revenue Committee filed
- Mar 20, 2025Nebraska LegislatureCavanaugh, M. MO119 Indefinitely postpone pursuant to Rule 6, Sec. 3(f) filed
- Mar 14, 2025Nebraska LegislatureMurman priority bill
- Mar 11, 2025Nebraska LegislatureBrandt AM589 filed
- Mar 5, 2025Nebraska LegislatureNotice of hearing for March 13, 2025
- Jan 15, 2025Nebraska LegislatureReferred to Revenue Committee
- Jan 13, 2025Nebraska LegislatureDate of introduction
Version history
Only one version on file - nothing to compare yet. As later stages (committee substitute, engrossed, enrolled) are captured, the redline appears here.
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Full breakdown
Who this bill affects and the strongest case for and against it, written only from the bill’s own text.
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Sources
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 40)
- Controversy60Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz15Current news / social attention level
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