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LB400

Provide for compensation under the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Act for cancers experienced by firefighters

Failed

Introduced by Dave Wordekemper, District 15

What does this bill do?

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Official description

Provide for compensation under the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Act for cancers experienced by firefighters

Where it stands

Indefinitely postponed

April 17, 2026

How did lawmakers vote?

Unicameral votes

7 recorded votes · each counted separately

Unicameral votes

7 recorded votes · each counted separately

UnicameralStage: Wordekemper MO551 failed · March 30, 2026

32

Yes

15

No

2

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 Clements2No
Victor Rountree3Yes
Brad Von Gillern4Yes
Margo Juarez5Yes
Machaela Cavanaugh6Yes
Dunixi Guereca7Yes
Megan Hunt8Yes
John Cavanaugh9Yes
Wendy DeBoer10Yes

Bill history

  1. Date of introduction

  2. Referred to Business and Labor Committee

  3. Conrad name added

  4. Notice of hearing for March 10, 2025

  5. Placed on General File with AM702

  6. Business and Labor AM702 filed

  7. Wordekemper MO282 Bracket until June 9, 2025 filed

  8. Wordekemper MO283 Recommit to the Business and Labor Committee filed

  9. Wordekemper MO284 Indefinitely postpone pursuant to Rule 6, Sec. 3(f) filed

  10. Wordekemper MO285 Bracket until June 9, 2025 filed

  11. Wordekemper MO286 Recommit to the Business and Labor Committee filed

  12. Wordekemper MO287 Indefinitely postpone filed

  13. Wordekemper FA258 to AM702 filed

  14. Wordekemper FA260 filed

  15. Title printed. Carryover bill

  16. Clouse AM1696 to AM702 filed

  17. Objection to unanimous consent request to withdraw MO284

  18. Wordekemper MO284 pending

  19. Wordekemper MO284 pending

  20. Wordekemper MO284 failed

  21. Wordekemper MO282 out of order

  22. Hallstrom MO359 Reconsider the vote on MO284 filed

  23. Hallstrom MO359 pending

  24. Hallstrom MO359 failed

  25. Business and Labor AM702 pending

  26. Clouse AM1696 pending

  27. Hallstrom MO360 Bracket until April 17, 2026 filed

  28. Hallstrom MO360 pending

  29. Business and Labor AM702 pending

  30. Clouse AM1696 pending

  31. Hallstrom MO360 failed

  32. Hallstrom AM1750 to AM702 filed

  33. Hallstrom MO361 Recommit to the Business and Labor Committee filed

  34. Business and Labor AM702 pending

  35. Clouse AM1696 pending

  36. Cavanaugh, M. MO362 Reconsider the vote on MO360 filed

  37. Cavanaugh, M. MO362 withdrawn

  38. Hallstrom MO361 withdrawn

  39. Business and Labor AM702 pending

  40. Clouse AM1696 adopted

  41. Wordekemper FA258 withdrawn

  42. Storer FA921 filed

  43. Correction

  44. Business and Labor AM702 pending

  45. Hallstrom AM1750 withdrawn

  46. Wordekemper MO283 withdrawn

  47. Hallstrom FA923 filed

  48. Hallstrom FA923 pending

  49. Passed over

  50. Wordekemper FA922 filed

  51. Correction

  52. Wordekemper priority bill

  53. Wordekemper FA1017 to AM702 filed

  54. Storer FA1123 filed

  55. Hallstrom FA923 withdrawn

  56. Wordekemper FA1017 withdrawn

  57. Jacobson FA1127 to AM702 filed

  58. Jacobson FA1127 lost

  59. Jacobson FA1128 to AM702 filed

  60. Jacobson FA1128 lost

  61. Jacobson FA1129 to AM702 filed

  62. Jacobson MO550 Recommit to the Business and Labor Committee filed

  63. Wordekemper MO551 Invoke cloture pursuant to Rule 7, Sec. 10 filed

  64. Wordekemper MO551 failed

  65. Wordekemper AM2971 to AM702 filed

  66. Indefinitely postponed

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