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Lawmakers approve narrow DHHS cleanup amendment to cut outdated reports
Summary
The Legislature approved a narrowed amendment to LB 376 that removes or modifies dozens of statutorily required Department of Health and Human Services reports and lifts an unfunded county office-space requirement, while directing further interim work on broader policy items.
The Nebraska Legislature on general file adopted an amendment narrowing LB 376 to focus primarily on removing obsolete Department of Health and Human Services reporting requirements and related technical fixes.
The measure, read on the floor as a DHHS cleanup bill, originally contained a broad set of programmatic changes across multiple chapters of statute. Speaker Mike Arch, who took the lead for the revised language, described AM 13-12 as a “scaled‑back version of LB 376” that would eliminate 28 DHHS reports, modify six report deadlines, and sunset two other reports. Arch said the tighter focus would…
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