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Committee hears amendments to Open Meetings Act to restore notice language and clarify posting duties
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Committee counsel Benson Wallace introduced amendments AM 10:38 and AM 11:45 to LB243 to restore publication language and clarify posting duties in the Nebraska Open Meetings Act.
Committee counsel Benson Wallace introduced amendments AM 10:38 and AM 11:45 to LB243 during a Government, Military and Veteran Affairs Committee hearing on Oct. 12, 2025. The amendments would restore language to the Nebraska Open Meetings Act that was inadvertently removed by last session's LB287 and clarify how public notice must be published when a newspaper fails to run a scheduled edition or when a statewide website is unavailable.
Wallace told the committee the amendment "replaces the missing language verbatim" and would recodify existing publication practices. He said the amendment also clarifies that a public body should request that the Nebraska Press Association (NPA) post a notice on its statewide website, rather than attempt to post directly to a privately operated site.…
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