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LB647

Adopt the Recreational Trail Easement Property Tax Exemption Act and the Adoption Tax Credit Act and change provisions relating to budget limitations, property tax request authority, municipal occupation taxes, real property assessments, the Property Tax Request Act, income tax credits, taxation of business entities, the School District Property Tax Relief Act, and the Nebraska educational savings plan trust

Passed

Introduced by Revenue Committee

What does this bill do?

Plain-English breakdown

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Official description

Adopt the Recreational Trail Easement Property Tax Exemption Act and the Adoption Tax Credit Act and change provisions relating to budget limitations, property tax request authority, municipal occupation taxes, real property assessments, the Property Tax Request Act, income tax credits, taxation of business entities, the School District Property Tax Relief Act, and the Nebraska educational savings plan trust

Where it stands

Provisions/portions of LB709 amended into LB647 by AM1202

June 6, 2025

How did lawmakers vote?

Unicameral votes

12 recorded votes · each counted separately

Unicameral votes

12 recorded votes · each counted separately

UnicameralStage: Motion to return to Select File failed · May 30, 2025

11

Yes

33

No

5

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 Hallstrom1No
Robert Clements2No
Victor Rountree3Yes
Brad Von Gillern4No
Margo Juarez5Yes
Machaela Cavanaugh6Yes
Dunixi Guereca7Yes
Megan Hunt8Absent
John Cavanaugh9Yes
Wendy DeBoer10Yes

Bill history

  1. Date of introduction

  2. Referred to Revenue Committee

  3. Notice of hearing for March 26, 2025

  4. Revenue priority bill

  5. Sanders FA80 filed

  6. Placed on General File with AM994

  7. Revenue AM994 filed

  8. Quick AM1107 to AM994 filed

  9. Revenue AM994 divided

  10. Revenue AM1203 filed

  11. Revenue AM1202 filed

  12. Revenue AM1202 pending

  13. Revenue AM1203 adopted

  14. Quick AM1107 adopted

  15. Revenue AM1202 adopted

  16. Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial

  17. Raybould AM1255 filed

  18. Placed on Select File with ER70

  19. Enrollment and Review ER70 filed

  20. Sorrentino AM1311 filed

  21. Enrollment and Review ER70 adopted

  22. No objections to unanimous consent to withdraw and substitute amendment

  23. Sanders FA80 withdrawn

  24. Sanders AM1360 filed

  25. Sanders AM1360 adopted

  26. Raybould AM1255 withdrawn

  27. Sorrentino AM1311 withdrawn

  28. Dungan FA200 filed

  29. Dungan FA200 lost

  30. Advanced to Enrollment and Review for Engrossment

  31. Placed on Final Reading with ST35

  32. Enrollment and Review ST35 filed

  33. Enrollment and Review ST35 recorded

  34. Cavanaugh, M. MO298 Recommit to the Revenue Committee filed

  35. Cavanaugh, M. FA289 filed

  36. Cavanaugh, M. MO298 failed

  37. Cavanaugh, M. MO340 Reconsider the vote taken on MO298 filed

  38. Cavanaugh, M. MO340 failed

  39. Motion to return to Select File withdrawn

  40. Cavanaugh, M. FA289 not considered

  41. Cavanaugh, M. AM1640 filed

  42. von Gillern MO343 Invoke cloture pursuant to Rule 7, Sec. 10 filed

  43. von Gillern MO343 prevailed

  44. Motion to return to Select File failed

  45. Cavanaugh, M. AM1640 not considered

  46. Dispensing of reading at large approved

  47. Passed on Final Reading with Emergency Clause 35-13*-1

  48. President/Speaker signed

  49. Presented to Governor on May 30, 2025

  50. Approved by Governor on June 4, 2025

  51. Provisions/portions of LB131 amended into LB647 by AM1203

  52. Provisions/portions of LB242 amended into LB647 by AM1202

  53. Provisions/portions of LB314 amended into LB647 by AM1360

  54. Provisions/portions of LB401 amended into LB647 by AM1202

  55. Provisions/portions of LB566 amended into LB647 by AM1107

  56. Provisions/portions of LB628 amended into LB647 by AM1202

  57. Provisions/portions of LB709 amended into LB647 by AM1202

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