---
type: "Bill"
title: "Create the Healthy Soils Task Force and add a use for a fund"
description: "Create the Healthy Soils Task Force and add a use for a fund"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ne"
legislature: "Nebraska Legislature"
session: "106"
identifier: "LB 243"
citation: "Nebraska LB 243 (106)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gragert"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 37
vote_count: 12
first_action: "2019-01-14"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/76ff45e7-e3b4-49a0-9892-ba902b74f19c"
source_url: "https://nebraskalegislature.gov/bills/search_by_date.php?SessionDay=2019"
source_hash: "f9b312537db2782da79ffa2d5cd7e860e955bbf0995dc658ab2a9fc46f0e6e94"
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 243 (106) — Create the Healthy Soils Task Force and add a use for a fund

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/106/PDF/Intro/LB243.pdf)
2. **Final Reading** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/106/PDF/Final/LB243.pdf)
3. **Slip Law** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/106/PDF/Slip/LB243.pdf)

## Votes

- Hughes AM937 adopted — **41–0** (fail) · legislature
- Passed on Final Reading with Emergency Clause 43-0-6 — **43–0** (pass) · legislature
- Chambers MO46 failed — **1–40** (fail) · legislature
- Gragert AM789 adopted — **39–0** (fail) · legislature
- Gragert MO49 prevailed — **46–1** (fail) · legislature
- Advanced to Enrollment and Review for Engrossment — **46–1** (pass) · legislature
- Agriculture AM640 adopted — **38–0** (fail) · legislature
- Motion to overrule the Chair failed — **0–39** (fail) · legislature
- Chambers MO47 failed — **0–46** (fail) · legislature
- Chambers MO48 failed — **1–46** (fail) · legislature
- Chambers MO44 failed — **0–40** (fail) · legislature
- Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial — **39–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Gragert — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-04-18** Approved by Governor on April 17, 2019 `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-11** Presented to Governor on April 11, 2019 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-11** President/Speaker signed `passage`
- **2019-04-11** Passed on Final Reading with Emergency Clause 43-0-6 `passage`
- **2019-04-11** Chambers FA44 withdrawn
- **2019-04-11** Chambers FA44 filed `filing`
- **2019-04-11** Motion to return to Select File withdrawn `filing`
- **2019-04-03** Placed on Final Reading `reading-3`
- **2019-04-03** Advanced to Enrollment and Review for Engrossment
- **2019-04-03** Gragert MO49 prevailed
- **2019-04-03** Gragert MO49 Invoke cloture filed `filing`
- **2019-04-03** Chambers MO48 failed
- **2019-04-03** Chambers MO48 Reconsider the vote to recommit to committee filed `filing`
- **2019-04-03** Chambers MO47 failed
- **2019-04-03** Chambers MO47 Recommit to the Agriculture Committee filed `filing`
- **2019-04-02** Chambers MO46 failed
- **2019-04-02** Chambers MO46 Reconsider the vote to indefinitely postpone filed `filing`
- **2019-04-02** Chambers MO44 failed
- **2019-04-02** Chambers MO44 Indefinitely postpone filed `filing`
- **2019-04-02** Motion to overrule the Chair failed
- **2019-04-02** Chair ruled AM1142 is not germane to bill
- **2019-04-02** Chambers AM1142 filed `filing`
- **2019-04-02** Hughes AM937 adopted
- **2019-04-02** Enrollment and Review ER57 adopted
- **2019-03-25** Hughes AM937 filed `filing`
- **2019-03-25** Enrollment and Review ER57 filed `filing`
- **2019-03-25** Placed on Select File with ER57 `filing`
- **2019-03-21** Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial
- **2019-03-21** Gragert AM789 adopted
- **2019-03-21** Agriculture AM640 adopted
- **2019-03-20** Gragert AM789 filed `filing`
- **2019-03-15** Gragert priority bill
- **2019-03-15** Agriculture AM640 filed `filing`
- **2019-03-15** Placed on General File with AM640 `filing`
- **2019-01-22** Notice of hearing for January 29, 2019
- **2019-01-16** Referred to Agriculture Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-14** 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/76ff45e7-e3b4-49a0-9892-ba902b74f19c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nebraska legislature records).