---
type: "Bill"
title: "Change education provisions regarding reporting, penalties, residency, boundaries, priority schools, subpoena authority, poverty, and limited English proficiency and adopt the Nebraska Reading Improvement Act"
description: "Change education provisions regarding reporting, penalties, residency, boundaries, priority schools, subpoena authority, poverty, and limited English proficiency and adopt the Nebraska Reading Improvement Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ne"
legislature: "Nebraska Legislature"
session: "105"
identifier: "LB 1081"
citation: "Nebraska LB 1081 (105)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Education Committee"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 21
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-01-17"
last_action: "2018-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff211de9-ae22-41ec-96b8-ab18278bb9a4"
source_url: "https://nebraskalegislature.gov/bills/search_by_date.php?SessionDay=2018"
source_hash: "58983676a8d26c2e3da489c4d75f2eefd43b692cf38328c427460a322c841b10"
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 1081 (105) — Change education provisions regarding reporting, penalties, residency, boundaries, priority schools, subpoena authority, poverty, and limited English proficiency and adopt the Nebraska Reading Improvement 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/105/PDF/Intro/LB1081.pdf)
2. **Final Reading** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/105/PDF/Final/LB1081.pdf)
3. **Slip Law** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/105/PDF/Slip/LB1081.pdf)

## Votes

- Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial — **37–0** (pass) · legislature
- Linehan AM2593 adopted — **33–0** (fail) · legislature
- Linehan AM2823 adopted — **35–0** (fail) · legislature
- Passed on Final Reading 46-1-2 — **46–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Education Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-04-23** Provisions/portions of LB651 amended into LB1081 by AM2593
- **2018-04-18** Approved by Governor on April 17, 2018 `executive-signature`
- **2018-04-11** Presented to Governor on April 11, 2018 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-04-11** President/Speaker signed `passage`
- **2018-04-11** Passed on Final Reading 46-1-2 `passage`
- **2018-04-11** Dispensing of reading at large approved
- **2018-04-09** Placed on Final Reading `reading-3`
- **2018-04-09** Advanced to Enrollment and Review for Engrossment
- **2018-04-09** Linehan AM2823 adopted
- **2018-04-09** Enrollment and Review ER143 adopted
- **2018-04-05** Linehan AM2823 filed `filing`
- **2018-03-26** Enrollment and Review ER143 filed `filing`
- **2018-03-26** Placed on Select File with ER143 `filing`
- **2018-03-21** Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial
- **2018-03-21** Linehan AM2593 adopted
- **2018-03-21** Linehan AM2593 filed `filing`
- **2018-02-21** Placed on General File `filing`
- **2018-02-15** Education priority bill
- **2018-01-31** Notice of hearing for February 12, 2018
- **2018-01-19** Referred to Education Committee `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-17** 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/ff211de9-ae22-41ec-96b8-ab18278bb9a4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nebraska legislature records).