Latest Nebraska state government News

A mostly male board will decide whether a Nebraska lawmaker faces censure for sexual harassment

Mar. 28, 2024 22:02 PM EDT

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska lawmaker implored the Legislature's Executive Board on Thursday to hold a colleague accountable for invoking her name in a graphic reading on the legislative floor, which some say constitutes sexual harassment. The decision of whether Republican...

Civil rights icon Malcolm X gets a day of recognition in Nebraska, where he was born in 1925

Mar. 28, 2024 14:29 PM EDT

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Malcolm X has garnered the recognition many have sought for his contributions to the civil rights movement in the conservative Midwest state where he was born, after years of being rejected as too controversial to be honored. The Nebraska Legislature on...

A Nebraska lawmaker faces backlash for invoking a colleague's name in a graphic account of rape

Mar. 19, 2024 17:45 PM EDT

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska lawmaker is facing calls to resign after reading a graphic account of rape from a best-selling memoir on the floor of the Legislature in which he repeatedly invoked the name of a fellow lawmaker, making it appear as if that lawmaker was the subject of the assault....

Nebraska's new law limiting abortion and trans healthcare is argued before the state Supreme Court

Mar. 05, 2024 16:51 PM EST

Members of the Nebraska Supreme Court appeared to meet with skepticism a state lawyer's defense of a new law that combines a 12-week abortion ban with another measure to limit gender-affirming health care for minors. Assistant Attorney General Eric Hamilton argued Tuesday that the...

Question of whether Nebraska public money can go to private schools still set for November ballot

Mar. 01, 2024 18:33 PM EST

Nebraska’s top election official has ruled that voters will get to decide this year whether to repeal a law that gives taxpayer money for private school scholarships. But both Nebraska Secretary of State Bob Evnen and state Sen. Lou Ann Linehan, who authored the school choice law...

Lawmakers bidding to resume Louisiana executions after 14-year pause OK new death penalty methods

Feb. 29, 2024 16:28 PM EST

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Bidding to resume Louisiana executions after a 14-year pause, the state's Republican-dominated Legislature gave final passage to a bill Thursday to add electrocution and the use of nitrogen gas as means of administering the death penalty. The legislation...

Nebraska Republican gives top priority to bill allowing abortions in cases of fatal fetal anomalies

Feb. 14, 2024 19:12 PM EST

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska lawmaker who tanked an effort last year by his fellow Republicans to pass a near-total abortion ban has given top priority this year to a bill that would allow abortions beyond the state's 12-week ban in cases of fatal fetal anomalies. The bill by...

Lawmaker looks to make Nebraska the latest state to enact controversial 'stand your ground' law

Feb. 08, 2024 19:55 PM EST

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska would become one of the last Republican-led states to enact a so-called “stand your ground” law under a bill presented to a legislative committee on Thursday. State Sen. Brian Hardin, of Scottsbluff, said he brought the bill at the urging of his...

A Nebraska bill would hire a hacker to probe the state's computer, elections systems

Feb. 08, 2024 18:28 PM EST

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — One state lawmaker wants Nebraska to take measures to protect it from cyberattacks. His answer? Hire its own hacker. State Sen. Loren Lippincott presented a bill Thursday to the Legislature's government committee that would give the Nebraska State Patrol...

Conservative Nebraska lawmakers push bills that would intertwine religion with public education

Feb. 05, 2024 20:33 PM EST

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Conservative lawmakers who want to intertwine religion with school curriculum in Republican-dominated Nebraska presented a slew of bills Monday to the state Legislature’s education committee. The list includes a bill that would give parents more control over...