Nebraska 2025 Session Status: To Executive

LB596 — The official site of the Nebraska Unicameral Legislature

Last action — Provisions/portions of LB1159 amended into LB596 by AM2730

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
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    Passed Legislature
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    To Executive
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    Enacted

This bill has been sent to the executive. Introduced January 22, 2025. It awaits signature.

Signed by Governor Jim Pillen (Republican) on April 10, 2026.

Next likely step: the executive signs it into law or issues a veto.

Prognosis

Advancing 42% · moderate confidence

Where this bill stands today.

Odds of enactment

High

How often bills like it became law.

  • To Executive

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 1 sponsor

    1 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.

Prognosis reads this bill's own signals — stage, sponsorship breadth, committee status, recorded votes and cross-state momentum. Odds come from a model trained on which bills have become law.

Summary

Change requirements for legal publications and notices required by law, provisions of the Open Meetings Act, county inventories, warrants, and discharge records, storage requirements for certain records, petitions to change names, marriage license and record fees, reports of abandoned property, and the Nebraska Hall of Fame and eliminate a penalty for certain public officials and provisions relating to the registration of farm, ranch, or home names

Bill Text

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Action History

  1. Date of introduction

  2. Referred to Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee

  3. Notice of hearing for March 13, 2025

  4. Title printed. Carryover bill

  5. Government, Military and Veterans Affairs priority bill

  6. Placed on General File with AM2282

  7. Government, Military and Veterans Affairs AM2282 filed

  8. Lonowski AM2405 to AM2282 filed

  9. DeKay AM2428 to AM2282 filed

  10. Point of order on germaneness of AM2405 withdrawn

  11. Lonowski AM2405 withdrawn

  12. DeKay AM2428 adopted

  13. Rountree FA1027 filed

  14. Rountree FA1027 adopted

  15. Government, Military and Veterans Affairs AM2282 adopted

  16. Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial

  17. Placed on Select File with ER140

  18. Enrollment and Review ER140 filed

  19. Lonowski AM2730 filed

  20. Dover AM2987 filed

  21. Enrollment and Review ER140 adopted

  22. Lonowski AM2730 adopted

  23. Dover AM2987 not germane

  24. Dover AM2987 not further considered

  25. Advanced to Enrollment and Review for Engrossment

  26. Placed on Final Reading with ST79

  27. Enrollment and Review ST79 filed

  28. Enrollment and Review ST79 recorded

  29. Dispensing of reading at large approved

  30. Passed on Final Reading 46-3*-0

  31. President/Speaker signed

  32. Presented to Governor on April 10, 2026

  33. Approved by Governor on April 14, 2026

  34. Provisions/portions of LB739 amended into LB596 by FA1027

  35. Provisions/portions of LB869 amended into LB596 by AM2428

  36. Provisions/portions of LB896 amended into LB596 by AM2282

  37. Provisions/portions of LB898 amended into LB596 by AM2282

  38. Provisions/portions of LB919 amended into LB596 by AM2282

  39. Provisions/portions of LB923 amended into LB596 by AM2282

  40. Provisions/portions of LB1145 amended into LB596 by AM2282

  41. Provisions/portions of LB1159 amended into LB596 by AM2730

Sponsors

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 48 not signed on

Sponsors (1)

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (48)

48 members have not signed on to this bill.

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"Not signed on" means a member has not sponsored or co-sponsored this bill — it does not imply opposition. Members flagged Voted No have a recorded No vote on this bill.

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Frequently asked questions

What does LB596 do?
Change requirements for legal publications and notices required by law, provisions of the Open Meetings Act, county inventories, warrants, and discharge records, storage requirements for certain records, petitions to change names, marriage license and record fees, reports of abandoned property, and the Nebraska Hall of Fame and eliminate a penalty for certain public officials and provisions relating to the registration of farm, ranch, or home names
Who sponsors LB596?
LB596 is sponsored by Rita Sanders.
What is the current status of LB596?
This bill has been sent to the executive. Introduced January 22, 2025. It awaits signature.
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