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Chair Senator Dave Merman opened the Education Committee hearing, reviewed testimony procedures (green sheets, three-minute light system), and asked members to introduce themselves. He named staff and pages. The committee will take items in posted order.
The Nebraska Legislature Education Committee held a multi-hour public hearing covering five bills: LB 924 (learning community cleanup), LB 748 (conformity and expansion of the NEST 529 program), LB 841 (parental consent and burden-of-proof changes for IEPs), LB 937 (NDE cleanup with contested dyslexia-reporting language), and LB 940 (ban on specified artificial food dyes in school-provided meals). Lawmakers heard extensive proponent and opponent testimony and pledged further stakeholder work on several items.
