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NE LB1072

NE LB1072
Provide for and change transfers from the Cash Reserve Fund and provide, change, and eliminate provisions relating to fees, funds, fund transfers, agency powers and duties, and various statutory programs


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Introduced
01/15/2026
In Committee
01/20/2026
Crossed Over
03/11/2026
Passed
04/07/2026
Dead
Signed/Enacted/Adopted
04/07/2026

Introduced Session

109th Legislature

Bill Summary

A BILL FOR AN ACT relating to government; to amend sections 1-111, 2-2701, 2-2703.01, 2-2705, 2-2706, 13-2041, 29-2262.07, 37-327.01, 47-632, 48-3004, 48-3008, 54-857, 55-131, 66-733, 66-734, 66-735, 68-1604, 71-17,108, 71-3001, 71-3004, 71-3006, 71-3525, 71-3526, 79-303, 79-1035.01, 79-2607, 80-401, 81-2,174, 81-2,237, 81-1201.22, 81-1202, 81-1204, 81-1209, 81-1210.02, 81-1213.03, 81-1213.04, 81-1230, 81-12,134, 81-12,146, 81-12,147, 81-12,218, 81-1429.03, 81-1463, 81-1505.05, 81-15,303, 81-1607.01, 81-1835, 81-2105, 81-2504, 82-108.03, 82-316, 82-331, 83-915.01, 84-321, 84-512, 85-1501, 85-1503, 85-1511, 85-1515, 85-1516, 85-1521, 85-1535, 85-1539, 85-1920, and 85-3112, Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska, sections 9-812, 19-5707, 38-157, 43-2404.01, 43-2404.02, 44-116, 48-101.01, 48-145, 48-621, 53-117.06, 58-703, 71-2490, 71-5318, 71-7104, 74-1317, and 77-4212, Revised Statutes Cumulative Supplement, 2024, sections 9-1107, 37-811, 37-1804, 48-1,116, 55-901, 60-6,211.05, 61-222, 61-305, 71-7608, 71-7611, 72-1001, 77-27,144, 77-4025, 77-4602, 77-5601, 77-7305, 81-132, 81-1203, 81-1239, 81-12,110, 81-15,120, 81-15,174, 81-15,180, 84-612, 85-1412, and 85-1654, Revised Statutes Supplement, 2025, and Laws 2025, , sections 6, 8, 12, 64, 69, 70, and 81; to provide requirements for implementation of the Rural Health Transformation Program; to provide, change, and eliminate provisions relating to funds and fund transfers; to provide for and change transfers from the Cash Reserve Fund; to create funds; to provide for transfer of investment earnings from certain funds; to provide for a grant from the Site and Building Development Fund; to require state agencies to provide a technology inventory as prescribed; to change the distribution of the permanent school fund, municipal sales and use taxes, proceeds under the Tobacco Products Tax Act, disbursements under the Property Tax Credit Act and the School District Property Tax Credit Act, fees under the Municipal Inland Port Authority Act, and grants under the Nebraska Operational Assistance Act; to change the disposition of workers' compensation self-insurer payments; to provide for an additional use of the Davis Scholarship Trust Fund, the Administrative Cash Fund, the Commercial Feed Administration Cash Fund, the Military Department Cash Fund, and the Victim's Compensation Fund; to change provisions relating to the Commission Grant Program, the Community-based Juvenile Services Aid Program, the Law Enforcement Attraction and Retention Act, the Nebraska Mental Health First Aid Training Act, the Nursing Faculty Student Loan Act, the Teleworker Job Creation Act, and motor fuel taxes; to restate intent regarding appropriations for reading instruction and animal damage control; to eliminate provisions relating to tractor testing fees, job training grants, the Bioscience Innovation Program, the Critical Incident Stress Management Program, certain services requested by agencies housed in the State Capitol, certain reimbursements provided by the Department of Health and Human Services to first responders, and the Department of Revenue Enforcement Fund; to provide for termination of the Panhandle Improvement Project Cash Fund and the Superfund Cost Share Cash Fund; to eliminate the Bioscience Innovation Cash Fund, the Capitol Commission Revolving Fund, the Community College Aid Fund, the Nebraska Community College Student Performance and Occupational Education Grant Fund, the Customized Job Training Cash Fund, the Designated Collection Fund, the Economic Development Cash Fund, the Nebraska Film Office Fund, the Innovation Hub Cash Fund, the Job Training Cash Fund, the Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control Cash Fund, the Nuclear and Hydrogen Development Act, the Nuclear and Hydrogen Development Fund, the Nursing Faculty Student Loan Cash Fund, the Nebraska Soil and Plant Analysis Laboratory Act, the Soil and Plant Analysis Laboratory Cash Fund, the Nebraska Training and Support Cash Fund, the Sector Partnership Program Fund, the Small Watersheds Flood Control Fund, the State Treasurer's Land Sales Distributive Fund, the Tractor Permit Cash Fund, the Violence Prevention Cash Fund, and the Youth Outdoor Education Innovation Fund; to eliminate obsolete provisions; to harmonize provisions; to provide operative dates; to provide severability; to repeal the original sections; to outright repeal sections 2-1502, 2-1503.01, 2-1503.02, 2-1503.03, 2-2705.01, 2-3101, 2-3102, 2-3103, 2-3104, 2-3105, 2-3106, 2-3107, 2-3108, 2-3109, 2-3110, 71-17,112, 71-17,113, 71-17,116, 71-3007, 72-2205.01, 72-2211.01, 81-1220, 81-12,114, 81-12,155.01, 81-12,163.01, 81-1451, 81-2509, 81-2510, 81-2511, 81-2513, 81-2514, 81-2515, 85-1540, 85-2235, and 90-248, Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska, sections 66-2302, 66-2303, 66-2304, 66-2305, 66-2306, and 66-2307, Revised Statutes Cumulative Supplement, 2024, and sections 48-622.02, 48-3405, 66-2308, 81-1201.21, 81-1211, 81-1213.02, 81-1213.05, and 81-1216, Revised Statutes Supplement, 2025; and to declare an emergency.

AI Summary

This bill makes numerous changes to state law concerning government finances, agency powers, and various programs. Key provisions include the transfer of remaining balances from numerous specific funds, such as the Bioscience Innovation Cash Fund and the Job Training Cash Fund, to the General Fund by June 30, 2026, and in some cases, by June 30, 2027. It also establishes a new 988 Emergency Lifeline Cash Fund for costs related to the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline in Nebraska and creates the Correctional Services Insurance Proceeds Fund to cover operating or capital costs for the Department of Correctional Services. The bill also modifies provisions related to the Rural Health Transformation Program, requiring specific budget subprograms and electronic submission of applications to the Legislature, and prohibits the use of these funds to supplant existing state rural health spending. Additionally, it adjusts the distribution of certain funds, including investment earnings from the Permanent School Fund and proceeds from various taxes and programs, and eliminates several funds and programs deemed obsolete or no longer necessary. The bill also includes provisions for the transfer of investment earnings from certain funds to the General Fund and specifies operative dates for various sections, with some sections becoming effective on July 1, 2026, and others on December 31, 2026, while declaring an emergency for immediate effect.

Committee Categories

Budget and Finance

Sponsors (1)

Last Action

Provisions/portions of LB1231 amended into LB1072 by AM2165 (on 04/17/2026)

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Document Type Source Location
State Bill Page https://nebraskalegislature.gov/bills/view_bill.php?DocumentID=62666
BillText https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/Slip/LB1072.pdf
Enrollment and Review ST77 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/ST77.pdf
Raybould AM2948 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM2948.pdf
Clements AM2898 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM2898.pdf
BillText https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/Final/LB1072.pdf
BillText https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/Engrossed/LB1072.pdf
Enrollment and Review ST72 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/ST72.pdf
Fiscal Note for LB1072 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/FN/LB1072_20260320-120055.pdf
Cavanaugh, M. FA1079 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/FA1079.pdf
Raybould AM2841 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM2841.pdf
Speaker Arch MO528 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/MO528.pdf
Raybould AM2825 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM2825.pdf
Cavanaugh, M. FA1078 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/FA1078.pdf
Ballard AM2792 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM2792.pdf
Clements FA1077 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/FA1077.pdf
Raybould AM2810 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM2810.pdf
Hansen AM2835 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM2835.pdf
Raybould AM2824 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM2824.pdf
Raybould AM2817 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM2817.pdf
Raybould AM2816 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM2816.pdf
Raybould AM2815 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM2815.pdf
Raybould AM2814 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM2814.pdf
Armendariz AM2790 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM2790.pdf
Lonowski AM2788 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM2788.pdf
Raybould AM2785 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM2785.pdf
Cavanaugh, M. FA1059 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/FA1059.pdf
Clements AM2649 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM2649.pdf
Enrollment and Review ER146 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/ER146.pdf
Fiscal Note for LB1072 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/FN/LB1072_20260313-135031.pdf
Speaker Arch MO518 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/MO518.pdf
Cavanaugh, M. FA1051 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/FA1051.pdf
Storer FA1050 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/FA1050.pdf
Hunt AM2591 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM2591.pdf
Cavanaugh, M. FA1049 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/FA1049.pdf
Rountree FA1048 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/FA1048.pdf
Guereca AM2579 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM2579.pdf
Juarez AM2584 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM2584.pdf
Clouse AM2558 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM2558.pdf
Cavanaugh, M. FA1046 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/FA1046.pdf
Cavanaugh, M. FA1044 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/FA1044.pdf
Cavanaugh, M. FA1041 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/FA1041.pdf
Cavanaugh, M. FA1040 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/FA1040.pdf
Raybould AM2554 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM2554.pdf
Raybould AM2549 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM2549.pdf
Appropriations AM2165 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM2165.pdf
Analysis - Committee Statement https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/CS/LB1072.pdf
Fiscal Note for LB1072 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/FN/LB1072_20260130-123803.pdf
Analysis - Statement of Intent https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/SI/LB1072.pdf
Kauth FA731 https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/FA731.pdf
BillText https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/Intro/LB1072.pdf
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