---
type: "Bill"
title: "Create a Bioscience Innovation Program and the Nebraska Economic Development Task Force"
description: "Create a Bioscience Innovation Program and the Nebraska Economic Development Task Force"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ne"
legislature: "Nebraska Legislature"
session: "105"
identifier: "LB 641"
citation: "Nebraska LB 641 (105)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Morfeld"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 40
vote_count: 12
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ed37e662-1a08-4996-b31a-07018ca8bf02"
source_url: "https://nebraskalegislature.gov/bills/search_by_date.php?SessionDay=2017"
source_hash: "5751b9eec95fec4329e0c926b5f1472ddee8bdf31297a6e7f6e3164e8ada5774"
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 641 (105) — Create a Bioscience Innovation Program and the Nebraska Economic Development Task Force

## 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/LB641.pdf)
2. **Final Reading** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/105/PDF/Final/LB641.pdf)
3. **Slip Law** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/105/PDF/Slip/LB641.pdf)

## Votes

- Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial — **31–2** (pass) · legislature
- Schumacher FA52 lost — **0–37** (fail) · legislature
- Morfeld AM854 adopted — **38–0** (fail) · legislature
- Advanced to Enrollment and Review for Engrossment — **25–7** (pass) · legislature
- Schumacher FA54 adopted — **35–1** (fail) · legislature
- Schumacher AM868 adopted — **28–15** (fail) · legislature
- Morfeld AM747 adopted — **30–5** (fail) · legislature
- Failed on Final Reading with Emergency Clause 32-7-10 — **32–7** (fail) · legislature
- Passed on Final Reading with Emergency Clause stricken 31-5-13 — **31–5** (pass) · legislature
- Watermeier AM893 adopted — **27–7** (fail) · legislature
- Lindstrom AM902 adopted — **32–15** (fail) · legislature
- Banking, Commerce and Insurance AM560 adopted — **30–5** (fail) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Morfeld — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-05-23** Provisions/portions of LB230 amended into LB641 by AM893
- **2017-05-02** Approved by Governor on April 27, 2017 `executive-signature`
- **2017-04-24** Presented to Governor on April 24, 2017 `executive-receipt`
- **2017-04-24** President/Speaker signed `passage`
- **2017-04-24** Correctly Enrolled
- **2017-04-24** Passed on Final Reading with Emergency Clause stricken 31-5-13 `passage`
- **2017-04-24** Failed on Final Reading with Emergency Clause 32-7-10 `failure`
- **2017-04-24** Erdman MO97 withdrawn
- **2017-04-24** Erdman MO97 Recommit to Banking, Commerce and Insurance Committee filed `filing`
- **2017-04-10** Placed on Final Reading with ST6 `reading-3`
- **2017-04-03** Advanced to Enrollment and Review for Engrossment
- **2017-04-03** Schumacher FA54 adopted
- **2017-04-03** Schumacher FA54 filed `filing`
- **2017-04-03** Watermeier AM893 adopted
- **2017-04-03** Watermeier AM893 filed `filing`
- **2017-04-03** Schumacher MO69 withdrawn
- **2017-04-03** Schumacher MO69 Bracket until June 2, 2017 filed `filing`
- **2017-04-03** Lindstrom AM902 adopted
- **2017-04-03** Lindstrom AM902 filed `filing`
- **2017-04-03** Schumacher FA52 lost
- **2017-04-03** Schumacher FA52 filed `filing`
- **2017-04-03** Schumacher AM868 adopted
- **2017-04-03** Schumacher AM868 filed `filing`
- **2017-04-03** Morfeld AM854 adopted
- **2017-04-03** Enrollment and Review ER32 adopted
- **2017-03-31** Morfeld AM854 filed `filing`
- **2017-03-31** Enrollment and Review ER32 filed `filing`
- **2017-03-31** Placed on Select File with ER32 `filing`
- **2017-03-28** Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial
- **2017-03-28** Morfeld AM747 adopted
- **2017-03-28** Morfeld AM747 filed `filing`
- **2017-03-28** Banking, Commerce and Insurance AM560 adopted
- **2017-03-09** Morfeld priority bill
- **2017-03-09** Banking, Commerce and Insurance AM560 filed `filing`
- **2017-03-09** Placed on General File with AM560 `filing`
- **2017-03-06** Baker name added
- **2017-03-02** Lindstrom name added
- **2017-02-02** Notice of hearing for March 06, 2017
- **2017-01-20** Referred to Banking, Commerce and Insurance Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-18** 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/ed37e662-1a08-4996-b31a-07018ca8bf02`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nebraska legislature records).