Unicameral Update – February 5, 2020 The Agriculture Committee heard testimony Feb. 4 on a bill that would update the Nebraska Hemp Farming Act to harmonize it with new federal regulations. The Nebraska Hemp Farming Act, which the Legislature passed last year,...
Fred Knapp, NET News Victims of human trafficking could be offered safe houses and counseling to get away from the people who are exploiting them, under a bill advancing in the Legislature. But senators are not providing any money to implement the program. More on...
Omaha World Herald – February 1, 2020 Nebraska officials have taken action before to help protect financially vulnerable senior citizens, and this year lawmakers are considering a new, worthwhile proposal. Legislative Bill 853 would allow Nebraska financial...
Hemp growers and entrepreneurs who were joyous a year ago after U.S. lawmakers reclassified the plant as a legal agricultural crop now are worried their businesses could be crippled if federal policymakers move ahead with draft regulations. Licenses for hemp...
Omaha World-Herald Editorial Staff January 19, 2020 Nebraska lawmakers are unlikely to provide produce sweeping changes in prison policy during the current 60-day “short session,” Legislature watchers say. Perhaps so, but state senators can still provide something...
By Paul Hammel / World-Herald Bureau Jan 12, 2020 LINCOLN — Five years ago, state lawmakers passed a series of sentencing reforms designed to reduce Nebraska’s chronic prison overcrowding. The reforms, signed into law by Gov. Pete Ricketts, were hailed as a way...
