CHILD WELFARE

✅ LB368, introduced by Senator Megan Hunt, creates the Nebraska Youth in Care Bill of Rights, helping young people understand and exercise their rights while navigating the foster care system.
Nebraska Appleseed’s position: Support

✅ LB462, introduced by Senator Terrell McKinney, clarifies that involuntary poverty and certain independent childhood activities, alone, are not considered child neglect as to trigger a child welfare case in Nebraska.
Nebraska Appleseed’s position: Support

✅ LB1032, introduced by Senator Wendy DeBoer, recognizes tribal customary adoptions in Nebraska state law. Tribal customary adoptions allow Native children to be adopted without severing their relationship with their biological family, respecting the traditions, values, and laws of their tribes.
Nebraska Appleseed’s position: Support

❌ LB730, introduced by Senator Kathleen Kauth, prohibits schools and state agencies from allowing people to access a restroom or locker room designated for a gender different than their gender assigned at birth.
Nebraska Appleseed’s position: Opposed

ECONOMIC SECURITY

✅ LB304, introduced by Senator Wendy DeBoer, helps parents afford the child care they need by maintaining the child care subsidy’s income eligibility level, which is otherwise set to decrease this year. If this bill doesn’t pass this year, over 2,000 families will lose access to funding for child care.
Nebraska Appleseed’s position: Support

✅ LB588, introduced by Senator Danielle Conrad, puts money in the pockets of families who need it by adjusting the Aid to Dependent Children (ADC) Standard of Need every year instead of every other year. While this is a relatively small change, even $20 a month is a big help for families getting by on less than $1,000 a month.
Nebraska Appleseed’s position: Support

FOOD & NUTRITION ACCESS

✅ LB966, introduced by Senator Machaela Cavanaugh, aka the Hunger-Free Schools Act, makes more students eligible for free school meals by using state funds to make all reduced-price eligible student meals free.
Nebraska Appleseed’s position: Support

✅ LB734, introduced by Senator Megan Hunt, protects Nebraskans’ access to food by reinstating work requirement exemptions for some of our most vulnerable populations enrolled in SNAP.
Nebraska Appleseed’s position: Support

✅ LB843, introduced by Senator Victor Rountree, protects Nebraskans’ access to food by reversing eligibility changes that prevent refugees, asylees, and other immigrants from participating in SNAP.
Nebraska Appleseed’s position: Support

HEALTH CARE ACCESS

✅ LB723, introduced by Senator Dan Quick, protects Nebraskans’ access to health care by requiring that our state does not implement Medicaid work requirements early and requires implementation of measures to reduce unnecessary coverage losses.
Nebraska Appleseed’s position: Support

❌ LB732, introduced by Senator Kathleen Kauth, bans access to medically necessary health care for transgender Nebraskans under 19 years old. Instead of trusting doctors and families to make informed decisions, this bill adds more government interference into deeply personal health care choices.
Nebraska Appleseed’s position: Opposed

✅ LB777, introduced by Senator Machaela Cavanaugh, makes sure that Nebraskans with low incomes aren’t drowning in medical debt by protecting our state’s current levels of retroactive Medicaid coverage for new enrollees. 
Nebraska Appleseed’s position: Support

✅ LB812, introduced by Senator Eliot Bostar, protects Nebraskans’ access to health care by requiring that our state does not implement Medicaid work requirements early. It also prohibits Nebraska from verifying Medicaid expansion eligibility or work requirement compliance more frequently than needed.
Nebraska Appleseed’s position: Support

✅ LB929, introduced by Senator John Fredrickson, protects Nebraskans’ access to care through Medicaid by prohibiting Nebraska DHHS from requiring Medicaid enrollees to pay copays that aren’t required by federal law, and by requiring Nebraska DHHS to set the new copays for Medicaid expansion enrollees required by HR1 at the lowest amount possible.
Nebraska Appleseed’s position: Support

❌ LB1071 & LB1072, introduced by Senator John Arch on behalf of the Governor, are two of the budget bills the Legislature will be considering this session. Both bills contain harmful cuts and changes to Medicaid and health care services across the board.
Nebraska Appleseed’s position: Opposed

HOUSING JUSTICE

✅ LB101, introduced by Senator George Dungan, recognizes Nebraskans’ Constitutional right to a trial by jury in eviction cases. It also ensures that tenants are informed of their right to a trial by jury and protects against leases that would require tenants to waive that right.
Nebraska Appleseed’s position: Support

❌ LB809, introduced by Senator Robert Dover, harms Nebraska renters by prohibiting localities from banning housing discrimination on the basis of a tenant’s source of income. This bill would thwart the will of Lincoln voters who passed a source of income ban last May, and it limits other municipalities from being able to enact similar fair housing laws.
Nebraska Appleseed’s position: Opposed

IMMIGRANTS & COMMUNITIES

❌ LB870, introduced by Senator Bob Anderson, repeals Nebraska’s successful education policy of 20 years that ensures Nebraska youth who grow up in local communities and graduate from Nebraska high schools can continue their education at in-state tuition rates, regardless of immigration status – keeping important talent in Nebraska. Current policy simply ensures youth can pay in-state tuition rates. (It does not create scholarships or grants.)
Nebraska Appleseed’s position: Opposed

✅ LB881, introduced by Senator Dunixi Guereca, supports public safety by requiring transparency and process before enacting harmful policies that force local law enforcement into a federal immigration agent role. Police have noted that serving a federal immigration agent role is mission drift that harms public trust and undermines police ability to do their primary job of investigating and fighting crime.
Nebraska Appleseed’s position: Support

✅ LB907, introduced by Senator Margo Juarez, keeps Nebraska communities and children safe by preventing ICE from entering sensitive locations such as schools, hospitals, courthouses, and places of worship without a judicial warrant. This bill would reinstate ICE’s own previous guidelines regarding these formerly protected spaces.
Nebraska Appleseed’s position: Support

✅ LB963, introduced by Senator Terrell McKinney, supports public safety and proper use of state resources by requiring public notice and Legislature approval before state agencies or officials enter into agreements related to federal immigration enforcement.
Nebraska Appleseed’s position: Support

✅ LB1034, introduced by Senator George Dungan, keeps Nebraska children and learning environments safe by preventing ICE from entering schools without a judicial warrant. This bill would reinstate ICE’s own previous guidelines ensuring that schools are safe and protected spaces.
Nebraska Appleseed’s position: Support

❌ LB1061, introduced by Senator Dave Murman, repeals Nebraska’s successful education policy of 20 years that ensures Nebraska youth who grow up in local communities and graduate from Nebraska high schools can continue their education at in-state tuition rates, regardless of immigration status – keeping important talent in Nebraska. Current policy simply ensures youth can pay in-state tuition rates. (It does not create scholarships or grants.)
Nebraska Appleseed’s position: Opposed

RACE EQUITY & INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES

STRENGTHENING DEMOCRACY

Voting Rights

WORKER SAFETY, WAGES, & PROTECTIONS

❌ LB258, introduced by Senator Jane Raybould, would harm workers by severely weakening Nebraska’s minimum wage law – the same law that an overwhelming number of Nebraska voters enacted in 2022. This bill would carve out a subminimum wage for youth workers AND restrict the cost of living increases that Nebraskans voted for.
Nebraska Appleseed’s position: Opposed

✅ LB921, introduced by Senator Teresa Ibach, protects hardworking Nebraskans and whole communities by requiring additional notice to workers if their place of employment will close or have a mass layoff.
Nebraska Appleseed’s position: Support

✅ LB1009, introduced by Senator George Dungan, supports Nebraskans injured on the job by reducing Nebraska’s longest-in-the-nation waiting periods for workers’ compensation – the system that helps people recover after workplace injuries.
Nebraska Appleseed’s position: Support

✅ LB1056, introduced by Senator Danielle Conrad, supports Nebraskans injured on the job through several updates to the workers’ compensation system – adding a much-needed cost of living adjustment, increasing support for the loss of different body parts, covering some interpretation costs, and improving the process for choosing your own doctor.
Nebraska Appleseed’s position: Support