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Legislature advances series of technical, clean-up and policy bills; withdraws one bill and cancels a hearing
Summary
The body withdrew LB 418, canceled a Transportation Committee hearing on LB 714, and advanced several bills to E&R initial — including LB 1, LB 2, LB 194, LB 116, LB 209, LB 20, LB 35, LB 58 and LB 126 — with recorded roll calls noted on the floor.
The Nebraska Legislature handled multiple motions and votes on routine and policy items during the 15th day of the 109th Legislature.
Key actions at a glance:
- Withdrawal: Senator Linooski moved to withdraw LB 418 because another bill would address the constituent concern; the motion to withdraw was adopted (clerk recorded 44 ayes, no nays).
- Hearing cancellation: Senator Mosier moved to suspend rules to permit cancellation of the Transportation and Telecommunications Committee hearing on LB 714 because relevant facts were not available; the suspension was adopted and the hearing was rescheduled for Feb. 3 (clerk recorded 45 a's, no nay's).
- Reviser and repeal bills advanced: LB 1 (technical reviser correcting an incorrect subdivision reference related to hemp) and LB 2 (repealing terminated statutes including the Municipal Natural Gas System Emergency Assistance Act) advanced to E&R initial with no recorded nays (clerk recorded advancement votes in the 40–47-aye range on the floor).
- LB 194 advanced: Senator Sorrentino reintroduced LB 194 to clarify documentary-stamp tax exemptions for transfers among family members and codify treatment of certain step relationships (transfers through entities such as LLCs or trusts); the bill advanced to E&R initial (clerk recorded 44 a's, no nays).
- LB 209 advanced: Senator Von Gillard introduced LB 209 to clarify property-tax exemptions for some nursing and assisted-living facilities and to secure homestead exemptions for certain disabled veterans; the bill advanced to E&R initial (clerk recorded 45 a's, no nays).
- Amendments adopted and bills advanced: AM 69 to LB 20 (agricultural self-generation, clarifying utility cost recovery and notification) was adopted (clerk recorded 44 ayes, no nays) and the bill advanced (41 a's, no nays). Committee amendment AM 48 to LB 35 (renewable-energy developer compliance) was adopted (clerk recorded 41 a's, no nays) and LB 35 advanced to E&R initial.
- Other technical bills advanced: LB 58 (removing obsolete county jeweler's-lien statutes) and LB 126 (allowing a 10-year call for counties' competitively sold bonds) were advanced to E&R initial (clerk recorded 42 a's and 41 a's respectively, no nays).
- Adjournment: Senator Lippincott moved to adjourn; the legislature adjourned to Thursday, Jan. 30 at 10:00 a.m.
Vote record (floor-reported tallies as announced by the clerk): - LB 418 withdrawal: 44 ayes, no nays (motion adopted). - Motion to suspend rules / cancel hearing on LB 714: 45 a's, no nay's (adopted). - LB 1 advanced: floor record indicates advancement to E&R initial (floor clerk announcement). - LB 2 advanced: 47 a's, no nays (clerk announcement). - LB 194 advanced: 44 a's, no nays. - LB 116 advanced: 36 a's, 1 nay. - LB 209 advanced: 45 a's, no nays. - AM 69 adopted: 44 a's, no nays; LB 20 advanced: 41 a's, no nays. - AM 48 adopted: 41 a's, no nays; LB 35 advanced: 41 a's, no nays. - LB 58 advanced: 42 a's, no nays. - LB 126 advanced: 41 a's, no nays.
Notes and caveats: the floor transcript contains several inconsistent spellings of member names and occasional contradictory clerk lines (for example, some clerk lines appear to contain typographical errors in vote tallies); this roundup reports the clerk's announced tallies as they were recorded on the floor record. Where the body did not record a separate roll-call listing of individual member votes, tallies are reported as the clerk announced them.
Next procedural step: Most advanced bills move to the Legislative Reference (E&R) process for technical review and will return to the floor for select-file consideration.
