Be An Advocate (2025 Advocacy)

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The 2025 Nebraska Legislative Session began on Wednesday, January 8. Your voice is needed to protect and advance gender equity in our state. Get to know your state senator and encourage them to support issues that are important to you! Your expertise and lived experience can impact the policymaking progress. Contact us to find out how to get engaged—we are here to support your advocacy!

HOW TO ADVOCATE

You can make a difference—if you have five minutes or five hours. Make that time count by sharing your perspective, expertise and experience on issues that are important to you. Use your voice today to hold elected officials accountable.

Submit an Online Comment

The Nebraska Legislature has provided a way for folks to weigh in on issues—an online form. Find the bill you care about, click “submit comments online” and share your lived experience or copy resources from our site!

Call Your State Senator

When you call a senator’s office, you might speak with a staff member initially. It is important to share your perspective with the staff member, as they are responsible for briefing the state senator on legislative issues.

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Email Your State Senator

Email can be as simple or as detailed as you’d like. If your message includes a substantial amount of research or facts, you might consider putting your full message into a formal letter that you can attach to the email.

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HOW LAWS ARE MADE

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Hundreds of bills are introduced during the first 10 days of each legislative session with only some making it into law. If bills did not make it out of committee or pass by the end of the 2024 session, they will not carryover to 2025. Similar bills and topics can be re-introduced next session and will need to go through the same process again. While the process can be difficult to track at times, we’ll keep you up to date and let you know when your voice will be most impactful. Learn more about this process.

Economic Security

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LB 17 (In Committee)

Prohibits certain landlord rental fees

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Introduced By: Senator John Cavanaugh
Committee: Judiciary
Hearing: February 20

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LB 92 (In Committee)

Adopts the Residential Tenant Clean Slate Act

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Introduced By: Senator Terrell McKinney
Committee: Judiciary
Hearing: January 30

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LB 157 (In Committee)

Adopts the Child Tax Credit Act

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Introduced By: Senator Danielle Conrad
Committee: Revenue

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LB 192 (General File)

Eliminate sunset date for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

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Introduced By: Senator Dan Quick
Committee: Health and Human Services
Hearing: February 6

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LB 223 (In Committee)

Prohibits Source of Income Discrimination in Housing

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Introduced By: Senator Dunixi Guereca
Committee: Judiciary
Hearing: January 30

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LB 258 (General File)

Limits minimum wage increase and creates a sub-minimum wage for youth

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Introduced and Prioritized By: Senator Jane Raybould
Committee: Business and Labor
Hearing: February 24

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LB 304 (In Committee)

Eliminate a sunset date for child care subsidies

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Introduced By: Senator Wendy DeBoer
Committee: Health and Human Services
Hearing: February 6

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LB 698 (General File)

as amended to LB 415

Changes Paid Sick Leave Measure Passed by Voters

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Introduced By: Senator Paul Strommen
Committee: Business and Labor
Hearing: February 3

Freedom From Violence

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LB 67 (In Committee)

Adopts the Sexual Assault Emergency Care Act

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Introduced By: Senator Jane Raybould
Committee: Health and Human Services
Hearing: March 14

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LB 78 (General File)

Adopts the Domestic Violence and Sex Trafficking Survivor Assistance Act

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Introduced By: Senator Elliot Bostar
Committee: Judiciary
Hearing: January 22

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LB 267 (In Committee)

Increases protections for domestic violence survivors in housing

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Introduced By: Senator Victor Rountree
Committee: Judiciary
Hearing: February 20

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LB 348 (In Committee)

Appropriate funds for domestic violence services

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Introduced By: Senator Jason Prokop
Committee: Appropriations
Hearing: March 10

Interested in testifying?

The Nebraska Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence offers one-on-one support to survivors of sexual, domestic, and similar types of violence who choose to share their stories and testify on legislative bills. The Nebraska Coalition provides resources, guidance and emotional support to help survivors navigate the legislative process. For more information, please contact Amber Jurgens at AmberJ@NebraskaCoalition.org.

Sexual Literacy and Reproductive Health

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LB 68 (In Committee)

Provides insurance and Medicaid coverage for contraceptives

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Introduced By: Senator Jane Raybould
Committee: Health and Human Services
Hearing: February 24

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LB 153 (In Committee)

Ensures postpartum health care for all

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Introduced By: Senator Dunixi Guereca
Committee: Health and Human Services
Hearing: March 14

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LB 512 (In Committee)

Increases barriers to abortion care

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Introduced By: Senator Rick Holdcroft
Committee: Health and Human Services
Hearing: February 13

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LB 632 (In Committee)

Intrudes on personal medical decisions

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Introduced By: Senator Ben Hansen
Committee: Health and Human Services
Hearing: March 6

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LB 669 (In Committee)

Further restricts abortion services

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Introduced By: Senator Tanya Storer
Committee: Judiciary
Hearing: March 6

Additional Bills that Impact Gender Equity

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LB 89 (In Committee)

Discriminates against trans people in sports and spaces

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Introduced and Prioritized By: Senator Kathleen Kauth at the request of the Governor
Committee: Government, Military and Veterans Affairs
Hearing: February 7

Don’t see a bill on this list but interested to know more about how it might impact you? Contact us for more details!

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Community Care

The way forward is together. We’ll discuss self-care and community care, how we can be ushers to the future we want to see for all Nebraskans, and how we not only get through but continue to show up to demand more and better from public policymakers.

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Session Preview

Hundreds of bills will be introduced in the first 10 days of the session. We’ll use this time to preview some bills that we plan to champion, share more about the process of how a bill becomes a law, and highlight what actions have the most impact from advocates like you.

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