---
type: "Bill"
title: "Adopt the Animal Health and Disease Control Act, eliminate and provide duties for the Department of Agriculture, eliminate various acts, terminate and transfer certain funds, create a fund, and provide penalties"
description: "Adopt the Animal Health and Disease Control Act, eliminate and provide duties for the Department of Agriculture, eliminate various acts, terminate and transfer certain funds, create a fund, and provide penalties"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ne"
legislature: "Nebraska Legislature"
session: "106"
identifier: "LB 344"
citation: "Nebraska LB 344 (106)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Agriculture Committee"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 24
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-01-16"
last_action: "2020-07-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/828b3007-208a-40a2-bf51-156f0d416880"
source_url: "https://nebraskalegislature.gov/bills/search_by_date.php?SessionDay=2019"
source_hash: "82b0100e17e35cb210d194a5073006a516cf3726f2a44fe1e82b5848e82e8d8a"
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 344 (106) — Adopt the Animal Health and Disease Control Act, eliminate and provide duties for the Department of Agriculture, eliminate various acts, terminate and transfer certain funds, create a fund, and provide penalties

## 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/LB344.pdf)
2. **Final Reading** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/106/PDF/Final/LB344.pdf)
3. **Slip Law** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/106/PDF/Slip/LB344.pdf)

## Votes

- Agriculture AM2486 adopted — **31–0** (fail) · legislature
- Halloran AM2705 adopted — **28–0** (fail) · legislature
- Passed on Final Reading 47-0-2 — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial — **30–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Agriculture Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-07-27** Approved by Governor on July 24, 2020 `executive-signature`
- **2020-07-21** Hilkemann explanation of vote
- **2020-07-21** Presented to Governor on July 21, 2020 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-07-21** President/Speaker signed `passage`
- **2020-07-21** Passed on Final Reading 47-0-2 `passage`
- **2020-07-21** Dispensing of reading at large approved
- **2020-03-23** Placed on Final Reading with ST51 `reading-3`
- **2020-03-06** Advanced to Enrollment and Review for Engrossment
- **2020-03-06** Halloran AM2705 adopted
- **2020-03-06** Enrollment and Review ER181 adopted
- **2020-03-05** Halloran AM2705 filed `filing`
- **2020-03-03** Enrollment and Review ER181 filed `filing`
- **2020-03-03** Placed on Select File with ER181 `filing`
- **2020-02-26** Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial
- **2020-02-26** Halloran AM2039 withdrawn
- **2020-02-26** Agriculture AM2486 adopted
- **2020-02-19** Agriculture AM2486 filed `filing`
- **2020-02-19** Placed on General File with AM2486 `filing`
- **2020-02-12** Halloran priority bill
- **2020-01-29** Halloran AM2039 filed `filing`
- **2020-01-08** Title printed. Carryover bill
- **2019-01-28** Notice of hearing for February 05, 2019
- **2019-01-18** Referred to Agriculture Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-16** 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/828b3007-208a-40a2-bf51-156f0d416880`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nebraska legislature records).