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Senate restores workplace-safety language for public employees, advances LB397
Summary
Senators adopted Senator Kavanaugh’s amendment (AM 19‑45), as amended by floor amendment FAA 9‑64, to preserve workplace-safety committee language for public employees and advanced LB397 to engrossing after unanimous approval of the amendment.
Senators on the floor adopted an amendment preserving statutory workplace-safety committee language for public employees and advanced LB397 to the next stage.
Senator John Kavanaugh introduced AM 19‑45 as a fix to LB397 that would restore language ensuring workplace-safety protections for public employees not covered by federal OSHA. “My amendment puts the requirement back in place as it pertains to public sector employees who are not covered by OSHA,” Kavanaugh said during his refresh of the amendment.
Why it matters: Senators in support said LB397, in its original form, removed statutory structures that historically enabled prevention and oversight, and that removing those provisions could make future reinstitution of…
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