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LB596

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

Passed

Introduced by Rita Sanders, District 45

What does this bill do?

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Official description

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

Where it stands

Provisions/portions of LB1159 amended into LB596 by AM2730

April 17, 2026

How did lawmakers vote?

Unicameral votes

6 recorded votes · each counted separately

Unicameral votes

6 recorded votes · each counted separately

UnicameralStage: Passed on Final Reading 46-3*-0 · April 10, 2026

46

Yes

3

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 Juarez5Yes
Machaela Cavanaugh6No
Dunixi Guereca7Yes
Megan Hunt8No
John Cavanaugh9Yes
Wendy DeBoer10Yes

Bill 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 Point of order on germaneness of AM2405 withdrawn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 Lonowski AM2405 withdrawn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

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