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LB847

Adopt the Nebraska Registered Apprenticeship Act, change provisions relating to funds, child labor, the Business Innovation Act, the Contractor Registration Act, the Employee Classification Act, the Employment Security Law, and the Nebraska Wage Payment and Collection Act, and transfer administration of student internships to the Department of Labor

Passed

Introduced by Kathleen Kauth, District 31

What does this bill do?

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Official description

Adopt the Nebraska Registered Apprenticeship Act, change provisions relating to funds, child labor, the Business Innovation Act, the Contractor Registration Act, the Employee Classification Act, the Employment Security Law, and the Nebraska Wage Payment and Collection Act, and transfer administration of student internships to the Department of Labor

Where it stands

Provisions/portions of LB1173 amended into LB847 by AM2141

April 17, 2026

How did lawmakers vote?

Unicameral votes

5 recorded votes · each counted separately

Unicameral votes

5 recorded votes · each counted separately

UnicameralStage: Passed on Final Reading 44-4*-1 · April 1, 2026

44

Yes

4

No

1

Absent or Not Voting

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

What do people think?

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See how each senator voted

SenatorDistrictVote
Robert Hallstrom1Yes
Robert Clements2Yes
Victor Rountree3Yes
Brad Von Gillern4Yes
Margo Juarez5Yes
Machaela Cavanaugh6No
Dunixi Guereca7No
Megan Hunt8Absent
John Cavanaugh9Yes
Wendy DeBoer10Yes

Bill history

  1. Date of introduction

  2. Kauth FA487 filed

  3. Referred to Business and Labor Committee

  4. Notice of hearing for January 26, 2026

  5. Business and Labor priority bill

  6. Placed on General File with AM2141

  7. Business and Labor AM2141 filed

  8. Kauth AM2161 to AM2141 filed

  9. Kauth AM2161 withdrawn

  10. Business and Labor AM2141 pending

  11. Kauth AM2450 to AM2141 filed

  12. Kauth AM2450 adopted

  13. Cavanaugh, J. AM2455 to AM2141 filed

  14. Cavanaugh, J. AM2455 withdrawn

  15. Business and Labor AM2141 adopted

  16. Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial

  17. Placed on Select File with ER135

  18. Enrollment and Review ER135 filed

  19. Kauth AM2875 filed

  20. Enrollment and Review ER135 adopted

  21. Kauth FA487 withdrawn

  22. Kauth AM2875 adopted

  23. Hughes FA1113 filed

  24. Cavanaugh, M. MO547 Bracket until April 10, 2026 filed

  25. Cavanaugh, M. MO547 withdrawn

  26. Hughes FA1113 withdrawn

  27. Advanced to Enrollment and Review for Engrossment

  28. Placed on Final Reading with ST76

  29. Enrollment and Review ST76 filed

  30. Enrollment and Review ST76 recorded

  31. Dispensing of reading at large approved

  32. Passed on Final Reading 44-4*-1

  33. President/Speaker signed

  34. Presented to Governor on April 1, 2026

  35. Approved by Governor on April 7, 2026

  36. Provisions/portions of LB747 amended into LB847 by AM2141

  37. Provisions/portions of LB864 amended into LB847 by AM2141

  38. Provisions/portions of LB1015 amended into LB847 by AM2141

  39. Provisions/portions of LB1044 amended into LB847 by AM2450

  40. Provisions/portions of LB1173 amended into LB847 by AM2141

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