Nebraska 109th Legislature (2025-2026) Status: Passed Legislature

LB 34 — Provide for year-round daylight saving time

Last action — Indefinitely postponed

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    In Committee
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    Passed Legislature
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    To Executive
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    Enacted

This bill has passed the Legislature. Introduced January 09, 2025. It now goes to the executive.

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Prognosis

Advancing 48% · moderate confidence

  • Passed Legislature

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  • 2 sponsors

    1 primary, 1 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Cleared a recorded vote

    Passed 2 recorded votes so far.

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Bill Text

What changed in the latest version

5 added · 198 removed

Plain-language change summary

The updated version of Bill LB 34 includes a minor wording change where "of" was replaced with "on" in a specific section. Although this might seem small, it helps to clarify the language of the bill. This clarification matters because clear and precise language can prevent confusion in the implementation of laws, ensuring that everyone understands the requirements and timelines. Additionally, the bill still focuses on establishing year-round daylight saving time and aligning related statutory provisions.

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LB34 LB34 2025 LEGISLATURE OF NEBRASKA ONE HUNDRED NINTH LEGISLATURE FIRST SESSION LEGISLATIVE BILL 34 FINAL READING   Introduced by Hunt, 8;
ER16 ER16 LB34 LB34 QNC - 02/24/2025 QNC - 02/24/2025 E AND R AMENDMENTS TO LB 34   Introduced by Guereca, 7, Chairman Enrollment and Review 1. On page 3, line 5, strike "of" and insert "on".
Conrad, 46.
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Read first time January 09, 2025 Committee:
Government, Military and Veterans Affairs A BILL FOR AN ACT relating to time;
to amend sections 49-1301, 49-1302, 81-1323, and 81-1328, Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska, and section 32-908, Revised Statutes Cumulative Supplement, 2024;
to provide for year-round daylight saving time as prescribed;
to harmonize provisions;
and to repeal the original sections.
Be it enacted by the people of the State of Nebraska, -1- LB34 LB34 2025 Section 1.
Section 32-908, Revised Statutes Cumulative Supplement, 2024, is amended to read:
32-908 (1) At all elections in the area of this state lying within the mountain Mountain Standard or Mountain Daylight time zone, the polls shall open at 7 a.m.
and close at 7 p.m.
of the same day, and in the area lying within the central Central Standard or Central Daylight time zone, the polls shall open at 8 a.m.
and close at 8 p.m.
of the same day.
(2) Except for special elections conducted by mail as provided in sections 32-952 to 32-959, the deadline for the receipt of ballots is 7 p.m.
on the day set for the election in the area lying within the mountain Mountain Standard or Mountain Daylight time zone and 8 p.m.
on the day set for the election in the area lying within the central Central Standard or Central Daylight time zone.
(3) If the judges and clerks of election are not present at the polls at the required hour, the polls may be opened by those placed in charge of the polling place at any time before the time required for closing the polls on election day.
(4) If at the hour of closing there are any persons desiring to vote who are in the polling place or in a line at the polling place and who have not been able to vote since appearing at the polling place, the polls shall be kept open reasonably long enough after the hour for closing to allow those present at that hour to vote.
No person arriving after the hour when the polls have officially closed shall be entitled to vote.
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Section 49-1301, Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska, is amended to read:
49-1301 (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, the The standard time of the State of Nebraska shall be the time established by the Uniform Time Act of 1966 in both the central Central and mountain Rocky Mountain time zones.
(2)(a) The standard time for the State of Nebraska shall be, in the -2- LB34 LB34 2025 central time zone, the Coordinated Universal Time minus five hours and, in the mountain time zone, the Coordinated Universal Time minus six hours.
(b) For purposes of this subsection, Coordinated Universal Time means the time scale maintained through the General Conference on Weights and Measures and interpreted or modified for the United States by the United States Secretary of Commerce in coordination with the United States Secretary of the Navy.
(c) This subsection becomes operative on the first Sunday in November after (i) the provisions of this subsection are authorized by the laws of the United States or any order of the United States Secretary of Transportation or are no longer in conflict with the laws of the United States or any order of the United States Secretary of Transportation and (ii) three states adjacent to this state adopt laws for a single year-round standard of time.
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Section 49-1302, Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska, is amended to read:
49-1302 (1) Daylight saving time for the State of Nebraska shall be in effect from the second first Sunday in March April until the first last Sunday in November October of each year at such clock time as is prescribed in the Uniform Time Act of 1966.
(2) This section becomes null and void upon subsection (2) of section 49-1301 becoming operative.
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Section 81-1323, Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska, is amended to read:
81-1323 The sick leave account shall be balanced as of 11:59 p.m.
central time Central Standard Time on December 31 each calendar year.
Sick leave shall be cumulative for not more than one thousand four hundred forty hours.
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Section 81-1328, Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska, is amended to read:
-3- LB34 LB34 2025 81-1328 (1) State employees shall, during each year of continuous employment, be entitled to ninety-six working hours of vacation leave with full pay.
(2) State employees who complete five years of continuous employment by the state shall be entitled to one hundred twenty hours of vacation leave during their sixth year of employment and shall thereafter be entitled to eight additional hours of vacation leave with full pay for each additional year of continuous state employment up to a maximum of two hundred hours of vacation leave a year.
Vacation leave shall be earned in accordance with the following schedule:
During 1st year of continuous employment .........
96 hours per year During 2nd year of continuous employment .........
96 hours per year During 3rd year of continuous employment .........
96 hours per year During 4th year of continuous employment .........
96 hours per year During 5th year of continuous employment .........
96 hours per year During 6th year of continuous employment .........
120 hours per year During 7th year of continuous employment .........
128 hours per year During 8th year of continuous employment .........
136 hours per year During 9th year of continuous employment .........
144 hours per year During 10th year of continuous employment ........
152 hours per year During 11th year of continuous employment ........
160 hours per year During 12th year of continuous employment ........
168 hours per year During 13th year of continuous employment ........
176 hours per year -4- LB34 LB34 2025 During 14th year of continuous employment ........
184 hours per year During 15th year of continuous employment ........
192 hours per year During 16th year of continuous employment ........
200 hours per year After 16th year of continuous employment .........
200 hours per year (3) State employees who are regularly employed less than forty hours a week shall be entitled to vacation leave proportionate to their regular workweek.
Any state employee who has been employed by the Legislature or Legislative Council shall, for vacation leave entitlement purposes, be credited with one continuous year of employment for each two hundred sixty working days such state employee was employed by the Legislature or Legislative Council.
(4) As used in this section, state employee shall mean any person or officer employed by the state including the head of any department or agency, except when such a head is a board or commission, and who works a full-time or part-time schedule on an ongoing basis.
(5) For purposes of this section, a state employee who has terminated employment with the state for any reason other than disciplinary and who returns to state employment within one year from the date of termination shall have his or her service for vacation leave entitlement computed by combining prior continuous service with current continuous service disregarding the period of absence, except that a state employee who has retired or voluntarily terminated in lieu of retirement shall, if he or she returns to state employment, be considered a new state employee for the purpose of vacation leave entitlement.
(6) The vacation leave account of each state employee shall be balanced as of 11:59 p.m.
central time Central Standard Time on December 31 each calendar year.
Each state employee shall be entitled to have -5- LB34 LB34 2025 accumulated as of such time the number of hours of vacation leave which he or she earned during that calendar year.
Hours of vacation leave accumulated in excess of that number shall be forfeited.
Any state employee shall be entitled to use any vacation time as soon as it has accrued.
Any vacation time not used within one calendar year following the calendar year during which the time accrued shall be forfeited.
In special and meritorious cases, when to limit the annual leave to the period therein specified would work a peculiar hardship, such leave may be extended in the discretion of the Governor, or in situations involving employees of the Legislature, in the discretion of the Executive Board of the Legislative Council.
(7) It is the responsibility of the head of an employing agency to provide reasonable opportunity for a state employee to use rather than forfeit accumulated vacation leave.
If a state employee makes a reasonable written request to use vacation leave before the leave must be forfeited under this section and the employing agency denies the request, the employing agency shall pay the state employee the cash equivalent of the amount of forfeited vacation leave that was requested and denied.
Such cash payment shall be made within thirty days after the requested and denied vacation leave is forfeited under this section.
Such cash payment shall be considered compensation for purposes of a state employee's retirement benefit in a defined contribution or cash balance benefit plan administered by the Public Employees Retirement Board but shall not be considered compensation for purposes of a state employee's retirement benefit in any other defined benefit plan administered by the Public Employees Retirement Board.
In determining whether a state employee’s request to use vacation leave is reasonable, the employing agency shall consider the amount of vacation leave requested, the number of days remaining prior to forfeiture during which the state employee may take vacation leave, the amount of notice given to the employing agency prior to the requested vacation leave, any effects on public safety, and -6- LB34 LB34 2025 other relevant factors.
This subsection shall not apply to state employees who are exempt from the State Personnel System pursuant to subdivisions (1)(g) and (h) of section 81-1316.
(8) Each state employee, upon retirement, dismissal, or voluntary separation from state employment, shall be paid for unused accumulated vacation leave.
Upon the death of a state employee, the his or her beneficiary of the state employee shall be paid for unused accumulated vacation leave.
(9) A permanent state employee who is transferred from one agency to another shall have his or her accrued vacation leave transferred to the receiving agency.
(10) The Director of Personnel shall adopt and promulgate such rules and regulations as are necessary to administer this section.
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Original sections 49-1301, 49-1302, 81-1323, and 81-1328, Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska, and section 32-908, Revised Statutes Cumulative Supplement, 2024, are repealed.
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Action History

  1. Indefinitely postponed

  2. Title printed. Carryover bill

  3. Placed on Final Reading

  4. Enrollment and Review ER16 adopted

  5. Advanced to Enrollment and Review for Engrossment

  6. Placed on Select File with ER16

  7. Enrollment and Review ER16 filed

  8. Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial

  9. Placed on General File

  10. Notice of hearing for January 31, 2025

  11. Conrad name added

  12. Referred to Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee

  13. Date of introduction

Sponsors

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1 sponsors · 1 co-sponsors · 47 not signed on · 16 voted No

Sponsors (1)

Co-sponsors (1)

Not signed on (47)

47 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Votes

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Passed 27 Yea · 18 Nay · 4 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 271804
Total 271804
% of votes cast 55%37%0%8%
How each member voted (49)
Member Party Vote
McKeon — Nay
Meyer — Nay
Ashlei Spivey — Yea
Barry DeKay — Not Voting
Beau Ballard — Not Voting
Ben Hansen — Nay
Bob Andersen — Yea
Bob Hallstrom — Yea
Brian Hardin — Not Voting
Carolyn Bosn — Nay
Christy Armendariz — Yea
Dan Lonowski — Not Voting
Dan Quick — Yea
Danielle Conrad — Yea
Dave Murman — Nay
Dave Wordekemper — Nay
Dunixi Guereca — Yea
Eliot Bostar — Yea
George Dungan — Yea
Jana Hughes — Yea
Jane Raybould — Yea
Jared Storm — Nay
Jason Prokop — Yea
John Arch — Nay
John Cavanaugh — Yea
John Fredrickson — Yea
Kathleen Kauth — Nay
Loren Lippincott — Nay
Machaela Cavanaugh — Yea
Margo Juarez — Yea
Megan Hunt — Yea
Merv Riepe — Nay
Mike Jacobson — Nay
Mike Moser — Nay
Myron Dorn — Yea
Paul Strommen — Yea
R. Brad von Gillern — Yea
Rick Holdcroft — Nay
Rita Sanders — Yea
Robert Clements — Nay
Robert Dover — Nay
Stan Clouse — Yea
Tanya Storer — Nay
Teresa Ibach — Yea
Terrell McKinney — Yea
Tom Brandt — Nay
Tony Sorrentino — Yea
Victor Rountree — Yea
Wendy DeBoer — Yea

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Passed 29 Yea · 13 Nay · 7 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 291307
Total 291307
% of votes cast 59%27%0%14%
How each member voted (49)
Member Party Vote
Meyer — Nay
McKeon — Nay
Ashlei Spivey — Yea
Barry DeKay — Yea
Beau Ballard — Yea
Ben Hansen — Nay
Bob Andersen — Yea
Bob Hallstrom — Yea
Brian Hardin — Not Voting
Carolyn Bosn — Nay
Christy Armendariz — Yea
Dan Lonowski — Not Voting
Dan Quick — Yea
Danielle Conrad — Yea
Dave Murman — Nay
Dave Wordekemper — Yea
Dunixi Guereca — Not Voting
Eliot Bostar — Not Voting
George Dungan — Yea
Jana Hughes — Yea
Jane Raybould — Yea
Jared Storm — Nay
Jason Prokop — Yea
John Arch — Yea
John Cavanaugh — Yea
John Fredrickson — Yea
Kathleen Kauth — Nay
Loren Lippincott — Yea
Machaela Cavanaugh — Not Voting
Margo Juarez — Yea
Megan Hunt — Yea
Merv Riepe — Yea
Mike Jacobson — Yea
Mike Moser — Nay
Myron Dorn — Yea
Paul Strommen — Yea
R. Brad von Gillern — Not Voting
Rick Holdcroft — Nay
Rita Sanders — Yea
Robert Clements — Nay
Robert Dover — Nay
Stan Clouse — Yea
Tanya Storer — Nay
Teresa Ibach — Yea
Terrell McKinney — Not Voting
Tom Brandt — Nay
Tony Sorrentino — Yea
Victor Rountree — Yea
Wendy DeBoer — Yea

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