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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Adopt the Ensuring Transparency in Prior Authorization Act and provide for insurance and medicaid coverage of biomarker testing"
+description: "Adopt the Ensuring Transparency in Prior Authorization Act and provide for insurance and medicaid coverage of biomarker testing"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ne"
+legislature: "Nebraska Legislature"
+session: "109"
+identifier: "LB 77"
+citation: "Nebraska LB 77 (109)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bostar"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2025-01-09"
+last_action: "2025-06-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eeec3eb1-fbaf-408c-a373-6c8d286251f3"
+source_url: "https://nebraskalegislature.gov/bills/search_by_date.php?SessionDay=2025"
+source_hash: "3ba32fcffbbbb75ec0624256aaa331c75d4aa652ca59ad7b27a7a65e93edc8bb"
+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 77 (109) — Adopt the Ensuring Transparency in Prior Authorization Act and provide for insurance and medicaid coverage of biomarker testing
+
+## 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/LB77.pdf)
+2. **Banking, Commerce and Insurance AM1187 Bostar AM1261** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM1187.pdf)
+3. **Bostar AM1261** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM1261.pdf)
+4. **Enrollment and Review ER86** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/ER86.pdf)
+5. **Final Reading** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/Final/LB77.pdf)
+6. **Slip Law** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/Slip/LB77.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Bostar AM1261 adopted — **31–0** (fail) · legislature
+- Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial — **37–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Banking, Commerce and Insurance AM1187 adopted — **32–0** (fail) · legislature
+- Passed on Final Reading 46-2*-1 — **46–2** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bostar — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-06** Provisions/portions of LB253 amended into LB77 by AM1187
+- **2025-06-06** Approved by Governor on June 4, 2025 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-30** Presented to Governor on May 30, 2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-30** President/Speaker signed `passage`
+- **2025-05-30** Passed on Final Reading 46-2*-1 `passage`
+- **2025-05-30** Dispensing of reading at large approved
+- **2025-05-27** Placed on Final Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-21** Advanced to Enrollment and Review for Engrossment
+- **2025-05-21** Enrollment and Review ER86 adopted
+- **2025-05-14** Enrollment and Review ER86 filed `filing`
+- **2025-05-14** Placed on Select File with ER86 `filing`
+- **2025-05-09** Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial
+- **2025-05-09** Banking, Commerce and Insurance AM1187 adopted
+- **2025-05-09** Bostar AM1261 adopted
+- **2025-05-08** Bostar AM1261 to AM1187 filed `filing`
+- **2025-04-28** Banking, Commerce and Insurance AM1187 filed `filing`
+- **2025-04-28** Placed on General File with AM1187 `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-17** Speaker priority bill
+- **2025-01-27** Notice of hearing for February 10, 2025
+- **2025-01-13** Referred to Banking, Commerce and Insurance Committee `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-09** 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/eeec3eb1-fbaf-408c-a373-6c8d286251f3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nebraska legislature records).
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