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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Change licensure and scope of practice provisions regarding marriage and family therapy and occupational therapy and licensure requirements under the Child Care Licensing Act"
+description: "Change licensure and scope of practice provisions regarding marriage and family therapy and occupational therapy and licensure requirements under the Child Care Licensing Act"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ne"
+legislature: "Nebraska Legislature"
+session: "109"
+identifier: "LB 257"
+citation: "Nebraska LB 257 (109)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Quick"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2025-01-14"
+last_action: "2025-06-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/882955e2-66c6-4297-848d-eee0bb699d2d"
+source_url: "https://nebraskalegislature.gov/bills/search_by_date.php?SessionDay=2025"
+source_hash: "e7319e4bbd69ac85c56b75a52e7471e03e8f83a9ee815c863d81a7a58be7b229"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ne"]
+---
+
+# Nebraska LB 257 (109) — Change licensure and scope of practice provisions regarding marriage and family therapy and occupational therapy and licensure requirements under the Child Care Licensing Act
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/Intro/LB257.pdf)
+2. **Enrollment and Review ER37** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/ER37.pdf)
+3. **Final Reading** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/Final/LB257.pdf)
+4. **Hansen AM866** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM866.pdf)
+5. **Hunt AM947** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM947.pdf)
+6. **Quick AM850** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM850.pdf)
+7. **Slip Law** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/Slip/LB257.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passed on Final Reading 46-3-0 — **46–3** (pass) · legislature
+- Quick AM850 adopted — **42–0** (fail) · legislature
+- Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial — **43–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Hansen AM866 adopted — **43–0** (fail) · legislature
+- Hunt AM947 adopted — **31–6** (fail) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Quick — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-06** Provisions/portions of LB630 amended into LB257 by AM866
+- **2025-06-06** Provisions/portions of LB274 amended into LB257 by AM947
+- **2025-05-21** Approved by Governor on May 20, 2025 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-14** Presented to Governor on May 14, 2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-14** President/Speaker signed `passage`
+- **2025-05-14** Passed on Final Reading 46-3-0 `passage`
+- **2025-05-14** Dispensing of reading at large approved
+- **2025-04-29** Enrollment and Review ST24 recorded
+- **2025-04-29** Enrollment and Review ST24 filed `filing`
+- **2025-04-29** Placed on Final Reading with ST24 `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-23** Advanced to Enrollment and Review for Engrossment
+- **2025-04-23** Hunt AM947 adopted
+- **2025-04-23** Enrollment and Review ER37 adopted
+- **2025-04-14** Hunt AM947 to ER37 filed `filing`
+- **2025-04-08** Enrollment and Review ER37 filed `filing`
+- **2025-04-08** Placed on Select File with ER37 `filing`
+- **2025-03-31** Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial
+- **2025-03-31** Hansen AM866 adopted
+- **2025-03-31** Hansen AM866 filed `filing`
+- **2025-03-31** Quick AM850 adopted
+- **2025-03-31** Quick AM850 filed `filing`
+- **2025-03-18** Placed on General File `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-12** Quick priority bill
+- **2025-01-24** Notice of hearing for February 07, 2025
+- **2025-01-16** Referred to Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-14** Date of introduction `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/882955e2-66c6-4297-848d-eee0bb699d2d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nebraska legislature records).
+