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LB 357 — Change provisions relating to the State Racing and Gaming Commission, the Nebraska Racetrack Gaming Act, racetrack enclosures, and racing and gaming funds
Last action — Approved by Governor on March 11, 2025
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This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 16, 2025. Enacted.
Signed by Governor Jim Pillen (Republican) on March 12, 2025.
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871 added · 965 removedPlain-language change summary
The amendment to LB 357 changes a specific reference in the bill from "2-1208" to "2-1208.01." This adjustment is important because it likely reflects an update or reorganization within the legal statutes that the bill addresses. By making this change, lawmakers ensure that the commission's regulations and definitions are current, which can help improve the efficiency and clarity of the legislation related to racing and gaming in Nebraska.
LB357 LB357 2025 LEGISLATURELEGISLATIVE OFBILL NEBRASKA357 ONEApproved HUNDREDby NINTHthe LEGISLATUREGovernor FIRSTMarch SESSION11, LEGISLATIVE2025 BILL 357 FINAL READING Introduced by General Affairs Committee:
Read firstA timeBILL JanuaryFOR 16,AN 2025ACT Committee:relating to the State Racing and Gaming Commission;
General Affairs A BILL FOR AN ACT relating to the State Racing and Gaming Commission;
Be it enacted by the people of the State of Nebraska, -1- LB357 LB357 2025 Section 1.
Thereafter the term of the member representing such district shall be four years and -2- LB357 LB357 2025 until his or her successor is appointed and qualified;
The compensation of the members of the commission shall be one thousand dollars per month, which may be adjusted every two years in an amount not to exceed the change in the Consumer Price Index for -1- LB357 LB357 2025 Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers for the period between June 30 of the first year to June 30 of the year of adjustment.
-3- LB357 LB357 2025 (4) No member shall have any personal financial interest in any licensed racetrack enclosure or authorized gaming operator as defined in the Nebraska Racetrack Gaming Act for the duration of the member's term.
2-12022-1202 (1) (1) The commission shall elect one of its members to be chairperson thereof, and it shall be authorized to employ such other assistants and employees as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of sections 2-1201 to 2-1218 , and the Nebraska Racetrack Gaming Act , and sections 9-1201 to 9-1209.
(3) All personnel appointed or employed by the commission shall be -4- LB357 LB357 2025 bonded or insured as required by section 11-201.
The commission shall remit administrative fines collected under this -5- LB357 LB357 2025 section to the State Treasurer for distribution in accordance with Article VII, section 5, of the Constitution of Nebraska.
(5) Verify the certification of horses registered as being Nebraska-Nebraska-bred bred under section 2-1213;
and -2- LB357 LB357 2025 (6) Collect and verify the amount of revenue received by the commission under section 2-1208.
2-1203.02 (1)(a) (1) Any person between sixteen and seventy-five years of age applying for or holding a license to participate in or be employed at a horserace meeting licensed by the commission shall be subject to fingerprinting and a check of his or her criminal history -6- LB357 LB357 2025 record information maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation through the Nebraska State Patrol.
(c) The applicant, licensee, or person involved in the administration or management of a racetrack shall pay the actual cost of -7- LB357 LB357 2025 any fingerprinting or check of his or her criminal history record information.
(1) (1) For purposes of sections 2-1201 to 2-1218, licensed racetrack enclosure means all real property licensed and utilized for the conduct of a race meeting, including the racetrack and any grandstand, concession stand, office, barn, barn area, employee housing facility, parking lot, and additional area designated by the commission in accordance with the Constitution of Nebraska and applicable Nebraska law.
(3) A racetrack enclosure license issued pursuant to this section -8- LB357 LB357 2025 for purposes of operating a licensed racetrack enclosure is separate and distinct from the license required to conduct horseracing meets issued pursuant to section 2-1204.
2-1204 (1) The Nebraska State Fair Board, a county fair board, a county agricultural society for the improvement of agriculture organized under the County Agricultural Society Act, or a corporation or association of persons organized and carried on for civic purposes or which conducts a livestock exposition for the promotion of the livestock or horse-breeding industries of the state and which does not permit its members to derive personal profit from its activities by way of dividends or otherwise may apply to the commission for -3- LB357 LB357 2025 a license to conduct horseracing meets at a designated place within the state.
Section 2-1205, Revised Statutes Cumulative Supplement, -9- LB357 LB357 2025 2024, is amended to read:
and -10- LB357 LB357 2025 (ii) Beginning January 1, 2031, hold a minimum of fifteen live racing meet days and one hundred twenty live horseraces annually.
2-12232-1223 Those Those corporations or associations eligible for licenses to conduct horseracing meets by the parimutuel method as defined in section 2-1204, shall be exempt from the provisions of the Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act.
Section 2-1225, Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska, is -11- LB357 LB357 2025 amended to read:
(5) Receiving track means shall mean any track which displays a simulcast -4- LB357 LB357 2025 which originates from another track or which conducts interstate simulcasts;
Section 2-1244, Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska, is -12- LB357 LB357 2025 amended to read:
This subsection shall not apply to the allocation of stalls pursuant to an agreement -13- LB357 LB357 2025 between the horseracing industry participant and the licensed racetrack.
9-1101 Sections9-1101 Sections 9-1101 to 9-1118 and sections 9-1201 to 9-1209 shall be known and may be cited as the Nebraska Racetrack Gaming Act.
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and (b) Authorized sporting event does not include an instate collegiate -5- LB357 LB357 2025 sporting event in which an instate collegiate or university team is a participant, a parimutuel wager, a fantasy sports contest, a minor league sporting event, a sporting event at the high school level or below regardless of the age of any individual participant, or any sporting event excluded by the commission;
-15- LB357 LB357 2025 (8) (7) Game of chance means any game which has the elements of chance, prize, and consideration, including any wager on a slot machine, table game, counter game, or card game, a keno lottery conducted in accordance with the Nebraska County and City Lottery Act, or sports wagering.
(12) (10) Licensed racetrack enclosure has the same meaning as in section 6 of this act;
(13) (11) Limited gaming device means an electronic gaming device -16- LB357 LB357 2025 which (a) offers games of chance, (b) does not dispense currency, tokens, or other items of value, and (c) does not have a cash winnings hopper, mechanical or simulated spinning reel, or side handle;
Sports wagering does not include (a) placing a wager on the performance or nonperformance of any individual athlete participating in a single game or match of a collegiate sporting event in which a collegiate team from this state is participating, (b) placing an in-game wager on any game or match of a collegiate sporting event in which a -17- LB357 LB357 2025 collegiate team from this state is participating, (c) placing a wager on the performance or nonperformance of any individual athlete under eighteen years of age participating in a professional or international sporting event, or (d) placing a wager on the performance of athletes in an individual sporting event excluded by the commission.
(1) License and regulate authorized gaming operators for the operation of all games of chance authorized pursuant to the Nebraska Racetrack Gaming Act, including adopting, promulgating, and enforcing rules and regulations governing -6- LB357 LB357 2025 such authorized gaming operators consistent with the act;
(5) Charge fees to authorized gaming operators in an amount necessary to offset the cost of oversight and regulatory services to be -18- LB357 LB357 2025 provided which shall be payable to the commission;
The license fee may be paid over a period of five years with one million dollars due at the time the license is issued and one million dollars due each year thereafter until the initial five-million-dollarfive- million-dollar license fee is paid in full;
(14) Have the authority to impose, subject to judicial review, -19- LB357 LB357 2025 appropriate administrative fines and penalties for each violation of the act or any rules and regulations adopted and promulgated pursuant to the act in an amount not to exceed:
(24) Conduct or cause to be conducted a statewide horseracing market -20- LB357 LB357 2025 analysis to study the racing market as it currently exists across the state and within the locations in Nebraska of the racetracks in Adams, Dakota, Douglas, Hall, Lancaster, and Platte counties as of the date of the market analysis.
-7- LB357 LB357 2025 (a) The number of live racing days per track, number of races run, and number of horses that should be entered per race;
(j) The market potential for expansion at each licensed racetrack enclosure to the live race meet days and the number of live horseraces required by section 2-1205, and the room for expansion, if any, for additional licensed racetrack enclosures into the market in Nebraska and -21- LB357 LB357 2025 the locations most suitable for such expansion;
(26) Conduct or cause to be conducted a statewide socioeconomic-socioeconomic-impact impact study of horseracing and casino gaming across the state and at each licensed racetrack enclosure and gaming facility in Adams, Dakota, Douglas, Hall, Lancaster, and Platte counties.
and (c) A comparison of the economy of counties which contain a licensed -22- LB357 LB357 2025 racetrack enclosure operating games of chance and counties which do not contain such a licensed racetrack enclosure as of the date of the study, which comparison shall include:
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(27) Approve or deny an application for any licensed racetrack enclosure which is not in existence or operational as of April 20, 2022, or any licensed racetrack enclosure in existence and operational as of November 1, 2020, that applies to move such licensed racetrack enclosure pursuant to section 2-1205, on the basis of the placement and location of such licensed racetrack enclosure and based on the market as it exists as of the most recent issuance of the statewide horseracing market analysis, statewide casino gaming market analysis, and statewide socioeconomic-socioeconomic-impact impact studies conducted by the commission pursuant to this section.
The commission shall deny a licensed racetrack enclosure or gaming operator -23- LB357 LB357 2025 license application if it finds that approval of such application in such placement and location would be detrimental to the racing or gaming market that exists across the state based on the most recent statewide horseracing market analysis, statewide casino gaming market analysis, -8- LB357 LB357 2025 and statewide socioeconomic-impact studies;
-24- LB357 LB357 2025 9-1107 (1) The Racing and Gaming Commission's Racetrack Gaming Fund is created.
9-1108 Any9-1108 Any person applying for a gaming operator license pursuant to the Nebraska Racetrack Gaming Act shall be subject to fingerprinting and a check of such person's criminal history record information maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation through the Nebraska State Patrol.
Such requirements shall be Identification Division of the Federal Bureau of -25- LB357 LB357 2025 Investigation for the purpose of determining whether the commission has a basis to deny the license application or to suspend, cancel, or revoke the person's license.
9-12069-1206 If If the tax provided for in section 9-1203 sections 9-1201 to 9-1209 is not paid within such time as provided in section 9-1205 or as may be prescribed for payment thereof by rules and regulations prescribed by the gaming commission, the same shall become delinquent and a penalty of ten percent shall be added thereto, together with interest at the rate specified in section 45-104.02, as such rate may from time to time be adjusted, until paid.
9-1207 Any authorized gaming operator that willfully fails, -26-neglects, or -9- LB357 LB357 2025 neglects, or refuses to make any report required by section 9-1205 sections 9-1201 to 9-1209, or by rules and regulations adopted and promulgated under such section sections 9-1201 to 9-1209, or that knowingly makes any false statement in any such report, is guilty of a Class IV felony.
(b) for ten years from the time of filing for record in the office of the appropriate filing -27- LB357 LB357 2025 officer;
Such notice shall contain the name and last-knownlast- known address of the taxpayer, the last four digits of the taxpayer's social security number or federal identification number, the gaming commission's serial number, and a statement to the effect that the gaming commission has complied with all provisions of the Nebraska Racetrack Gaming Act and sections 9-1201 to 9-1208 in the determination of the amount of the tax and any interest, penalty, and addition to such tax required to be paid.
A lien imposed upon personal property pursuant to the Uniform State Tax -28- LB357 LB357 2025 Lien Registration and Enforcement Act shall be valid against any subsequent creditor when notice of such lien and the amount due has been filed by the gaming commission in the office of the Secretary of State.
(6) The gaming commission may at any time, upon request of any party involved, release from a lien all or any portion of the property subject to any -10- LB357 LB357 2025 lien provided for in the Uniform State Tax Lien Registration and Enforcement Act or subordinate a lien to other liens and encumbrances if the gaming commission determines that (a) the tax amount and any -29- LB357 LB357 2025 interest, penalties, and additions to such tax have been paid or secured sufficiently by a lien on other property, (b) the lien has become legally unenforceable, (c) a surety bond or other satisfactory security has been posted, deposited, or pledged with the gaming commission in an amount sufficient to secure the payment of such taxes and any interest, penalties, and additions to such taxes, or (d) the release, partial release, or subordination of the lien will not jeopardize the collection of such taxes and any interest, penalties, and additions to such taxes.
25-21,252 (1)25-21,252 (1) Sections 25-21,249 to 25-21,253 shall not apply to the horseracing industry as regulated in sections 2-1201 to 2-1229 and section 6 of this act.
(c) Owns, leases, rents, or otherwise is in lawful possession and control of the land or facilities upon which the participant sustained -30- LB357 LB357 2025 injuries or death because of a dangerous latent condition which was known or should have been known to the equine activity sponsor, equine professional, or person and for which warning signs were not conspicuously posted;
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Action History
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Approved by Governor on March 11, 2025
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Dispensing of reading at large approved
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Passed on Final Reading 48-0-1
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President/Speaker signed
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Presented to Governor on March 6, 2025
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Placed on Final Reading
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Holdcroft AM320 adopted
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Advanced to Enrollment and Review for Engrossment
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Holdcroft AM320 filed
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Placed on Select File
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Holdcroft AM120 adopted
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Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial
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Holdcroft AM120 filed
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Placed on General File
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Referred to General Affairs Committee
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Notice of hearing for January 27, 2025
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Date of introduction
Sponsors
- General Affairs Committee · Primary
Sponsorship breakdown
Export CSV (upgrade) →1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 48 not signed on
Sponsors (1)
- General Affairs Committee
Co-sponsors (0)
None.
Not signed on (48)
48 members have not signed on to this bill.
Show all 48 →"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.
Votes
| Party | Yea | Nay | Present | Not Voting |
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| Unaffiliated | 48 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 48 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| % of votes cast | 98% | 0% | 0% | 2% |
How each member voted (49)
| Member | Party | Vote |
|---|---|---|
| McKeon | — | Yea |
| Meyer | — | Yea |
| Ashlei Spivey | — | Yea |
| Barry DeKay | — | Yea |
| Beau Ballard | — | Yea |
| Ben Hansen | — | Yea |
| Bob Andersen | — | Yea |
| Bob Hallstrom | — | Yea |
| Brian Hardin | — | Yea |
| Carolyn Bosn | — | Yea |
| Christy Armendariz | — | Yea |
| Dan Lonowski | — | Yea |
| Dan Quick | — | Yea |
| Danielle Conrad | — | Yea |
| Dave Murman | — | Yea |
| Dave Wordekemper | — | Yea |
| Dunixi Guereca | — | Yea |
| Eliot Bostar | — | Yea |
| George Dungan | — | Yea |
| Jana Hughes | — | Yea |
| Jane Raybould | — | Yea |
| Jared Storm | — | Yea |
| Jason Prokop | — | Yea |
| John Arch | — | Yea |
| John Cavanaugh | — | Yea |
| John Fredrickson | — | Yea |
| Kathleen Kauth | — | Yea |
| Loren Lippincott | — | Yea |
| Machaela Cavanaugh | — | Yea |
| Margo Juarez | — | Yea |
| Megan Hunt | — | Yea |
| Merv Riepe | — | Yea |
| Mike Jacobson | — | Yea |
| Mike Moser | — | Yea |
| Myron Dorn | — | Yea |
| Paul Strommen | — | Yea |
| R. Brad von Gillern | — | Yea |
| Rick Holdcroft | — | Yea |
| Rita Sanders | — | Yea |
| Robert Clements | — | Yea |
| Robert Dover | — | Yea |
| Stan Clouse | — | Yea |
| Tanya Storer | — | Yea |
| Teresa Ibach | — | Yea |
| Terrell McKinney | — | Not Voting |
| Tom Brandt | — | Yea |
| Tony Sorrentino | — | Yea |
| Victor Rountree | — | Yea |
| Wendy DeBoer | — | Yea |
| Party | Yea | Nay | Present | Not Voting |
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| Unaffiliated | 45 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Total | 45 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| % of votes cast | 92% | 0% | 0% | 8% |
How each member voted (49)
| Party | Yea | Nay | Present | Not Voting |
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| Unaffiliated | 39 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Total | 39 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| % of votes cast | 80% | 0% | 0% | 20% |
How each member voted (49)
| Party | Yea | Nay | Present | Not Voting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unaffiliated | 37 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Total | 37 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| % of votes cast | 76% | 0% | 0% | 24% |
How each member voted (49)
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