Sumner Sen News Today

"Mission accomplished again by the 2024 Legislature which has a little more than a week of session left."

The Nebraska Legislature considers trans-gender students on athletic teams.

Gordon state Sen. Tom Brewer’s Legislative Bill 399 won 44-0 first-round approval after lawmakers stripped language requiring developers of such projects to conclude a power purchase agreement for their electricity.

North Platte state Sen. Mike Jacobson introduced LB 1087, which will nominally charge hospitals 6% of gross income to unlock some $1.4 billion in extra reimbursements to serve Medicaid patients.

A Unicameral committee has advanced Gering state Sen. Brian Hardin’s bill intended to prevent a “foreign adversary” from buying land near nuclear missile outposts in the Panhandle.

Legislative committees also have advanced western Nebraska-born measures to tighten requirements to run for county sheriff and address "Medigap" coverage for eligible Medicare recipients younger than 65.

Likely you’ve heard of the “law of unintended consequences”: Anything we humans do yields effects we don’t intend or expect. That’s true over time. And about time, too, which probably best explains this week’s demise of Unicameral efforts to find some way for Nebraskans to stop changing their clocks twice a year. Senators rejected a […]

Likely you’ve heard of the “law of unintended consequences”: Anything we humans do yields effects we don’t intend or expect. That’s true over time.

Next week’s hearing schedule in the Legislature includes Gering state Sen. Brian Hardin’s bill seeking to screen out “foreign adversaries” from buying Nebraska land near military sites.

State senators Friday voted 24-19 to end debate on Legislative Bill 31, far short of the 33 needed to force a first-round vote on Sen. Mike Jacobson’s 2024 priority bill.