Mar 25, 2025 | Advocacy, General News, PP Updates & Alerts
Next week marks the end of the legislative hearing process, and the Legislature will be moving to all-day floor debate starting in April. During the month, the Appropriations Committee will continue to meet privately to complete its work on the budget package, which...
Mar 10, 2025 | Advocacy, General News, PP Updates & Alerts
We are now more than a third of the way through the Legislative session. This phase of session involves the start of the budget process, the final month of hearings and the initial batch of floor bills moving through the three rounds of debate. Additionally, with the...
Feb 12, 2025 | Advocacy, General News, PP Updates & Alerts
Today marks day 22 of the legislative session, and as we move deeper into the session calendar, bills have begun to advance from committee onto the floor for general file debate. In total, 715 bills were introduced this session, and as of this week, 36 have advanced...
Jan 17, 2025 | Advocacy, General News, PP Updates & Alerts
Nebraska state senators returned to the State Capitol last week to begin the 109th Legislative Session. The 2025 session brings in 17 new senators to the 49-member body. Since this is the first year of the biennium, the legislation session will last 90 working days...
Apr 10, 2024 | Advocacy, General News, PP Updates & Alerts
The final days of the legislative session are always known for a few things: long agendas, late nights, frantic compromise discussions, and lots of crazy turns, frequently about things that seem to come out of nowhere. We’ve seen all of those things in the waning...
Mar 20, 2024 | Advocacy, General News, PP Updates & Alerts
The Legislature is hitting the home stretch in the 2024 session. While there are only 14 working days left, in real time that stretches out to almost four more weeks. Senators began working into the evening and late nights on Mondays and are scheduled to do so...