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LB1165

Adopt the Grow the Good Life Act, provide an income tax credit, change provisions relating to the Convention Center Facility Financing Assistance Act, the ImagiNE Nebraska Act, the Nebraska Advantage Act, and the Site and Building Development Act, and create grant programs to help employers retain or attract employees and to assist cities of the first class impacted by private entity closure or downsizing

Passed

Introduced by Brad Von Gillern, District 4

What does this bill do?

Plain-English breakdown

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Official description

Adopt the Grow the Good Life Act, provide an income tax credit, change provisions relating to the Convention Center Facility Financing Assistance Act, the ImagiNE Nebraska Act, the Nebraska Advantage Act, and the Site and Building Development Act, and create grant programs to help employers retain or attract employees and to assist cities of the first class impacted by private entity closure or downsizing

Where it stands

Provisions/portions of LB1192 amended into LB1165 by AM2504

April 17, 2026

How did lawmakers vote?

Unicameral votes

9 recorded votes · each counted separately

Unicameral votes

9 recorded votes · each counted separately

UnicameralStage: Passed on Final Reading with Emergency Clause 42-7-0 · April 10, 2026

42

Yes

7

No

0

Absent or Not Voting

49 senators recorded in this Legislature vote. Colors show vote categories only, not whether a vote was good or bad.

See how each senator voted

SenatorDistrictVote
Robert Hallstrom1Yes
Robert Clements2Yes
Victor Rountree3Yes
Brad Von Gillern4Yes
Margo Juarez5No
Machaela Cavanaugh6No
Dunixi Guereca7Yes
Megan Hunt8No
John Cavanaugh9Yes
Wendy DeBoer10Yes

Bill history

  1. Date of introduction

  2. Kauth FA825 filed

  3. Referred to Revenue Committee

  4. Conrad FA940 filed

  5. Conrad FA941 filed

  6. Conrad FA942 filed

  7. Conrad FA943 filed

  8. Conrad MO379 Indefinitely postpone pursuant to Rule 6, Sec. 3(f) filed

  9. Conrad MO380 Bracket until April 17, 2026 filed

  10. Conrad MO381 Recommit to the Revenue Committee filed

  11. Conrad MO382 Bracket until April 17, 2026 filed

  12. Conrad MO383 Recommit to the Revenue Committee filed

  13. Conrad MO384 Indefinitely postpone filed

  14. Ibach name added

  15. Notice of hearing for February 25, 2026

  16. von Gillern priority bill

  17. von Gillern AM2016 filed

  18. Placed on General File with AM2504

  19. Revenue AM2504 filed

  20. von Gillern FA1081 to AM2504 filed

  21. von Gillern FA1082 to AM2504 filed

  22. Conrad AM2881 to AM2504 filed

  23. Conrad AM2878 to AM2504 filed

  24. Conrad AM2879 to AM2504 filed

  25. Conrad AM2877 filed

  26. Conrad MO379 pending

  27. Conrad MO379 failed

  28. Conrad MO380 pending

  29. Revenue AM2504 pending

  30. Conrad MO380 pending

  31. Revenue AM2504 pending

  32. Conrad MO380 failed

  33. von Gillern FA1081 withdrawn

  34. von Gillern FA1082 withdrawn

  35. Conrad AM2881 lost

  36. Revenue AM2504 pending

  37. Conrad AM2879 lost

  38. Revenue AM2504 adopted

  39. von Gillern AM2016 withdrawn

  40. Conrad AM2878 withdrawn

  41. Conrad AM2877 withdrawn

  42. Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial

  43. Placed on Select File with ER170

  44. Enrollment and Review ER170 filed

  45. Enrollment and Review ER170 adopted

  46. Conrad MO382 withdrawn

  47. Conrad MO381 withdrawn

  48. Conrad MO383 withdrawn

  49. No objections to unanimous consent request to withdraw and substitute amendment

  50. Kauth FA825 withdrawn

  51. von Gillern AM3035 filed

  52. von Gillern AM3035 adopted

  53. Conrad FA940 withdrawn

  54. Conrad FA941 withdrawn

  55. Conrad MO384 withdrawn

  56. Conrad AM3117 filed

  57. Conrad AM3117 lost

  58. Advanced to Enrollment and Review for Engrossment

  59. Placed on Final Reading with ST97

  60. Enrollment and Review ST97 filed

  61. Enrollment and Review ST97 recorded

  62. Conrad FA942 withdrawn

  63. Conrad FA943 withdrawn

  64. Dispensing of reading at large approved

  65. Passed on Final Reading with Emergency Clause 42-7-0

  66. President/Speaker signed

  67. Presented to Governor on April 10, 2026

  68. Approved by Governor on April 16, 2026

  69. Provisions/portions of LB806 amended into LB1165 by AM2504

  70. Provisions/portions of LB1191 amended into LB1165 by AM2504

  71. Provisions/portions of LB1192 amended into LB1165 by AM2504

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