2025 Bill Tracker

In Nebraska, the people truly are the “second house.” NFA is empowering people to stand up for faith, family, and freedom at our state capitol, and since 2016, every bill opposed by NFA has been defeated and over 45 NFA-supported bills have been passed into law. Below are the most important bills NFA is advocating for and against in the current legislative session.

2025 Bill Tracker

– 109th Legislature, 1st Session –

Life

LB 213: Require fetal development curriculum - SUPPORT

Introducer: Senator Holdcroft
Teaches the truth and beauty of human life from conception by requiring the State Board of Education to adopt academic content standards on human development that accurately portrays the biological science of human embryology for the curriculum of elementary, middle school, and high school students.

The Education Committee held a hearing on February 24, 2025. The bill was advanced from committee on a 5-3 vote and awaits debate by the full legislature.

LB 669: Informed consent & screening for coercion and trafficking - SUPPORT

Introducer: Senator Storer
Strengthens Nebraska’s informed consent for abortion by requiring screening for coercion, abuse, and trafficking before an abortion can be performed and that the pregnant woman be given the numbers for the domestic violence and human trafficking hotline, informed of the resources and assistance available to her and the opportunity to make a confidential phone call, and the right to sue providers who fail to provide her informed consent.

The Judiciary Committee held a hearing on March 6, 2025. The bill was advanced from committee on a 5-1 vote, with two senators present-not-voting, and awaits debate by the full legislature.

LB 512: Chemical Abortion Safety Protocol Act - SUPPORT

Introducer: Senator Holdcroft
Requires in-person health examinations before the abortion pill can be prescribed and an in-person follow-up visit with the physician to check for any adverse complications.

The Health and Human Services Committee held a hearing on February 13, 2025. The bill was advanced from committee on a 4-2 vote with one senator present-not-voting and awaits debate by the full legislature.

LB 214: Safe Haven Baby Boxes - SUPPORT

Introducer: Senator Holdcroft
Strengthens Nebraska’s Safe Haven law by authorizing the installation of Safe Haven Baby Boxes, padded, temper-controlled devices with motion sensors and dual-alarm systems, at fire stations for safe and anonymous surrender of a newborn infant ninety days old or younger.

The Health and Human Services Committee held a hearing on March 6, 2025. The committee took no immediate action.

LB 709: Adoption Tax Credit - SUPPORT

Introducer: Senator Bostar
Creates a refundable state tax credit equal to ten percent of the federal tax credit for any taxpayer who is eligible for the federal adoption expenses tax credit.

PASSED! The Revenue Committee held a hearing on February 7, 2025. The bill was advanced from committee on an 8-0 vote and was amended into LB 647. LB 647 advanced through the final round of debate with a 35-13 vote and was signed into law by Governor Pillen on May 30th.

LB 632: Humane disposition of fetal remains - SUPPORT

Introducer: Senator Hansen
Requires facilities that perform abortions to individually bury or cremate the remains of an aborted unborn child and prevents treating the bodies of unborn children as medical waste that can be thrown in the trash or sewer.

The Health and Human Services Committee held a hearing on March 6, 2025. The bill advanced from committee on a 5-0 vote with two senators present-not-voting, and was designated as a 2025 priority bill by Senator Lonowski. LB 632 advanced through the first round of debate by the full legislature on April 15, 2025, on a 33-13 vote, and awaits further debate.

LB 124: Increase penalties for causing the death of an unborn child - SUPPORT

Introducer: Senator Holdcroft
Increases the penalty for drunk driving resulting in the death of an unborn child from a Class IIIA to Class IIA felony.

PASSED! The Judiciary Committee held a hearing on January 23, 2025. The bill was advanced from committee on a 7-1 vote and was amended into LB 530. LB 530 advanced through the final round of debate with a 37-11 vote and was signed into law by Governor Pillen on May 29th.

Family and Parental Rights

LB 89: Stand with Women Act - SUPPORT

Introducer: Senator Kauth
Protects the rights, opportunities, privacy, and safety of women and girls in Nebraska by establishing common-sense, sex-specific standards in sports.

PASSED! The Government Committee held a hearing on February 7, 2025. The bill was designated as a 2025 priority bill by Senator Kauth and advanced from committee on a 5-3 vote. LB 89 advanced through the final round of debate with a 33-16 vote and was signed into law by Governor Pillen on May 29th.

LB 383: Parental Rights in Social Media Act - SUPPORT

Introducer: Senator Storer
Protects children online by prohibiting social media companies from allowing minors to open social media accounts unless they receive express parental consent, and ensures parents have proper access and control over their child’s account.

PASSED! The Judiciary Committee held a hearing on February 6, 2025. The bill was designated as a 2025 priority bill by Senator Storer and advanced from committee on a 6-1 vote, with one senator present-not-voting. LB 383 advanced through the final round of debate with a 46-3 vote and was signed into law by Governor Pillen on May 30th.

LB 504: Age-Appropriate Online Design Code Act - SUPPORT

Introducer: Senator Bosn
Protects children online by preventing social media algorithms that track children’s data, ensures parents have control and access over their child’s account, requires design features to prevent compulsive use of social media, and prohibits targeted advertising to minors.

PASSED! The Banking, Commerce, and Insurance Committee held a hearing on February 3, 2025, and was advanced from committee on a 7-0 vote with one senator present-not-voting. LB 504 advanced through the final round of debate with a 42-7 vote and was signed into law by Governor Pillen on May 30th.

LB 390: Parental oversight and notification of school library books - SUPPORT

Introducer: Senator Murman
Requires the creation of an online catalog of all books in each school district’s libraries that can be viewed by parents, and ensures parents receive notification when their student checks out a book from the school library.

PASSED! The Education Committee held a hearing on February 3, 2025, and was advanced from committee on a 6-1 vote, with one senator present-not-voting. The bill advanced through the final round of debate in the full legislature on April 10, 2025, with a 34-14 vote and was signed into law by Governor Pillen on April 14, 2025.

LB 428: Parental notification and oversight of school surveys - SUPPORT

Introducer: Senator Murman
Ensures parents have notification of any school surveys and the right to review and access the survey and exempt their child from participating, and prohibits surveys requesting sexual information of any student in kindergarten through sixth grade.

PASSED! The Education Committee held a hearing on February 4, 2025, and was advanced from committee on a 6-1 vote, with one senator present-not-voting. The bill passed through the final round of debate in the full legislature on a 41-5 vote, with three senators present-not-voting, and was signed into law by Governor Pillen on May 1, 2025.

LR 5CA and LR 6CA: Redefine marriage in the Nebraska Constitution - OPPOSE

Introducer: Senator Cavanaugh, M.
Removes the definition of marriage as one man and one woman from the Nebraska Constitution, undermining the truth about marriage that was placed in the state constitution by voters, and amends the Constitution to redefine marriage regardless of gender.

The Judiciary Committee held a hearing on January 31, 2025. The committee took no immediate action.

LB 367: Talk Therapy Ban - OPPOSE

Introducer: Senator Hunt
Violates the free-speech rights of counselors and engages in viewpoint discrimination by prohibiting counselors from counseling children away from transgenderism and same-sex attraction. Everyone who seeks counseling has the right to choose their own path, and a counselor shouldn’t be used as a tool to impose the government’s views on their patients.

The Health and Human Services Committee held a hearing on March 19, 2025. The committee took no immediate action.

Religious Freedom

LB 550: Release time for student religious education - SUPPORT

Introducer: Senator Lippincott
Supports students’ 1st Amendment rights by requiring school districts to adopt a policy that excuses students to attend a released time course for religious instruction for at least one class period per week and the option to receive academic credit.

The Education Committee held a hearing on March 3, 2025. The committee took no immediate action.

LB 655: Medical Conscience Rights - SUPPORT

Introducer: Senator Murman
Protects the religious freedom and conscience rights of medical care providers, healthcare institutions, and healthcare payers by ensuring they cannot be compelled to participate in or pay for medical procedures that violate their conscience.

The Health and Human Services Committee held a hearing on February 21, 2025. The committee took no immediate action.

Education and School Choice

LB 427: Education Savings Accounts - SUPPORT

Introducer: Senator Andersen
Establishes the Student Savings Account Support Fund to allocate $1,500 per year to an educational saving account for any student in kindergarten through twelfth grade to pay for education expenses, including tuition, fees, books, course material, and tutoring, at any public, private, denominational, or parochial school.

The Education Committee held a hearing on February 25, 2025. The committee took no immediate action.

LB 624: Funding for education scholarships - SUPPORT

Introducer: Senator Dover
Provides $10,000,000 annually for the State Treasurer to provide education scholarships to low-income and at-risk elementary and secondary students to attend the private or faith-based school of their choice.

The Appropriations Committee held a hearing on February 24, 2025. The committee took no immediate action.

LB 509: Opportunity Scholarships Act - SUPPORT

Introducer: Senator Sorrentino
Establishes a tax credit for private donations to scholarship-granting organizations that provide education scholarships to low-income and disadvantaged students to attend a private or faith-based school of their choice.

The Revenue Committee held a hearing on February 6, 2025. The committee took no immediate action.

LB 481: Foster Care Child Scholarships Act - SUPPORT

Introducer: Senator Ballard
Establishes the Foster Child Scholarship Program to provide HOPE Scholarships to children in foster care to help pay the costs associated with attending a private school.

The Health and Human Services Committee held a hearing on February 12, 2025. The committee took no immediate action.

LB 557: Education funding for students denied option enrollment - SUPPORT

Introducer: Senator Armendariz
Provides education scholarships of two thousand five hundred dollars to students who have been denied option enrollment during the school year in which the option enrollment application was denied.

The Education Committee held a hearing on February 25, 2025. The committee took no immediate action.

LB 633: Option Enrollment Tuition Account Program - SUPPORT

Introducer: Senator Hansen
Establishes education scholarships for students who have been denied option enrollment for an amount equal to the adjusted average per pupil cost of the preceding year and an additional amount equal to the reimbursement rate of the student’s school district for students with disabilities.

The Education Committee held a hearing on February 25, 2025. The committee took no immediate action.

LB 497: Homeschool Activities - SUPPORT

Introducer: Senator Murman
Allows students enrolled in private, denominational, or parochial schools to participate in extracurricular activities at a public school district.

The Education Committee held a hearing on March 3, 2025. The committee took no immediate action.

LB 549: Allow chaplains in schools - SUPPORT

Introducer: Senator Lippincott
Authorizes school boards to employ a chaplain, including in a volunteer capacity, to perform various duties at the school, including providing students academic, career, emotional, and behavioral health support.

The Education Committee held a hearing on February 24, 2025. The committee took no immediate action.

LB 605: Transgenderism in school sports - OPPOSE

Introducer: Senator Raybould
Requires school districts to adopt policies allowing students to participate in sports as their chosen gender identity and not biological sex.

Defeated! After introducing the bill on January 22, 2025, Senator Raybould formally withdrew the bill on March 13, 2025.

Human Trafficking

LB 172: Prohibit AI-generated child pornography - SUPPORT

Introducer: Senator Hardin
Protects children from abuse and sexual exploitation by adding “computer-generated child pornography” to statutes that prohibit child pornography.

PASSED! The Judiciary Committee held a hearing on February 6, 2025. The committee voted to amend LB 172 into LB 383, the Parental Rights in Social Media Act, on a 7-1 vote. LB 383 advanced through the final round of debate with a 46-3 vote and was signed into law by Governor Pillen on May 30th.

LB 320: Require human trafficking awareness posters in hotels - SUPPORT

Introducer: Senator Sanders
Requires informational posters on human trafficking with the National Human Trafficking Hotline number to be placed in hotels and develop training for hotel employees regarding issues in human trafficking.

The Business and Labor Committee held a hearing on February 3, 2025. The bill advanced from committee on March 19, 2025, with a 6-1 vote and awaits debate by the full legislature.

LB 511: Combat human trafficking & sexual exploitation - SUPPORT

Introducer: Senator Holdcroft
Addresses the demand side of trafficking by creating the offense of commercial sexual exploitation and requires those who solicit and pay for sex to register as sex offenders, increases penalties for engaging in trafficking, provides law enforcement additional tools, and requires the Department of Health and Human Services to conduct education and awareness campaigns.

The Judiciary Committee held a hearing on March 12, 2025. The committee took no immediate action.

Gambling

LB 280: Require audits of casinos - SUPPORT

Introducer: Senator von Gillern
Increases oversight and accountability of casinos in Nebraska by requiring annual, independent audits with oversight from the State Auditor.

The General Affairs Committee held a hearing on February 10, 2025. The committee took no immediate action.

LR 20CA: Legalize Online Sports Gambling - OPPOSE

Introducer: Senator Bostar
Seeks to amend the Nebraska Constitution to legalize online and mobile sports betting, which creates severe increases in gambling losses, addiction, abuse, and bankruptcies, decreases household spending and savings, and exposes children to harmful levels of gambling advertisements.

DEFEATED! The General Affairs Committee held a hearing on March 10, 2025. The bill was designated as a 2025 priority bill by Senator Prokop and advanced from committee on a 6-2 vote. After advancing through the first round of debate in the full legislature on a 27-16 vote, the bill was passed over at the request of the bill sponsor during the second round debate on April 23, 2025, before a vote could be taken. It became clear there were not enough votes to overcome a filibuster, effectively stopping the bill’s advancement.

LB 421 & 438: Implement Online Sports Gambling - OPPOSE

Introducers: Senator Clouse & Senator Spivey
Implements online sports gambling if the Nebraska Constitution is amended to legalize online gambling.

The General Affairs Committee held a hearing on March 10, 2025. The committee took no immediate action.

LB 63: Expand college sports gambling - OPPOSE

Introducer: Senator Brandt
Expands gambling statewide by authorizing sports betting on all Nebraska colleges and university sports teams, increasing losses and putting the safety and well-being of Nebraska student-athletes at risk.

The General Affairs Committee held a hearing on March 10, 2025. The committee took no immediate action.

LB 60: Expand lottery ticket sales - OPPOSE

Introducer: Senator Quick
Loosens restrictions and expands the sale of lottery tickets by allowing tickets to be sold through vending machines. Designed for people to lose money, the state lottery preys on the poor, hurts families, and contributes to cycles of poverty by taking the most from those who can least afford it.

The General Affairs Committee held a hearing on February 10, 2025. The bill was advanced from committee on an 8-0 vote and awaits debate by the full legislature.

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