---
type: "Bill"
title: "Adopt the Municipal Natural Gas System Emergency Assistance Act and change provisions relating to ordinances, bond elections, municipal boundaries, the Community Development Law, and building and plumbing codes"
description: "Adopt the Municipal Natural Gas System Emergency Assistance Act and change provisions relating to ordinances, bond elections, municipal boundaries, the Community Development Law, and building and plumbing codes"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ne"
legislature: "Nebraska Legislature"
session: "107"
identifier: "LB 131"
citation: "Nebraska LB 131 (107)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hunt"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 40
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-01-07"
last_action: "2021-05-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4bb4ec53-f7d4-4308-b0a6-a5e696f7d81a"
source_url: "https://nebraskalegislature.gov/bills/search_by_date.php?SessionDay=2021"
source_hash: "8e4c6407f4b57706da01e843b30348918f37bd2ac859073411b555d99bb77f0b"
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 131 (107) — Adopt the Municipal Natural Gas System Emergency Assistance Act and change provisions relating to ordinances, bond elections, municipal boundaries, the Community Development Law, and building and plumbing codes

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/107/PDF/Intro/LB131.pdf)
2. **Final Reading** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/107/PDF/Final/LB131.pdf)
3. **Slip Law** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/107/PDF/Slip/LB131.pdf)

## Votes

- Friesen AM1112 lost — **8–29** (fail) · legislature
- Urban Affairs AM751 adopted — **32–6** (fail) · legislature
- Wayne AM1258 adopted — **40–0** (fail) · legislature
- Wayne AM1303 adopted — **36–0** (fail) · legislature
- Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial — **28–10** (pass) · legislature
- Flood AM1275 adopted — **34–0** (fail) · legislature
- Passed on Final Reading with Emergency Clause 40-7-2 — **40–7** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Hunt — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-05-27** Provisions/portions of LB647 amended into LB131 by AM1275
- **2021-05-27** Provisions/portions of LB556 amended into LB131 by AM751
- **2021-05-27** Provisions/portions of LB549 amended into LB131 by AM751
- **2021-05-27** Provisions/portions of LB218 amended into LB131 by AM751
- **2021-05-27** Provisions/portions of LB162 amended into LB131 by AM751
- **2021-05-27** Provisions/portions of LB161 amended into LB131 by AM751
- **2021-05-27** Provisions/portions of LB99 amended into LB131 by AM751
- **2021-05-26** Approved by Governor on May 25, 2021 `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-20** Presented to Governor on May 20, 2021 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-20** President/Speaker signed `passage`
- **2021-05-20** Passed on Final Reading with Emergency Clause 40-7-2 `passage`
- **2021-05-20** Dispensing of reading at large approved
- **2021-05-18** Placed on Final Reading with ST29 `reading-3`
- **2021-05-12** Advanced to Enrollment and Review for Engrossment
- **2021-05-12** Wayne AM1303 adopted
- **2021-05-12** Flood AM1275 adopted
- **2021-05-12** Enrollment and Review ER89 adopted
- **2021-05-10** Wayne AM1303 filed `filing`
- **2021-05-10** Flood AM1275 filed `filing`
- **2021-05-07** Enrollment and Review ER89 filed `filing`
- **2021-05-07** Placed on Select File with ER89 `filing`
- **2021-05-05** Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial
- **2021-05-05** Urban Affairs AM751 adopted
- **2021-05-05** Wayne AM1258 adopted
- **2021-05-05** Wayne AM1258 filed `filing`
- **2021-05-05** Flood AM1139 withdrawn
- **2021-05-05** Friesen AM1112 lost
- **2021-05-04** Friesen AM1112 pending
- **2021-05-04** Urban Affairs AM751 pending
- **2021-05-04** Blood AM1087 withdrawn
- **2021-04-28** Hansen, M. name added
- **2021-04-27** Flood AM1139 filed `filing`
- **2021-04-23** Friesen AM1112 filed `filing`
- **2021-04-23** Blood AM1087 filed `filing`
- **2021-03-30** Urban Affairs AM751 filed `filing`
- **2021-03-30** Placed on General File with AM751 `filing`
- **2021-03-11** Urban Affairs priority bill
- **2021-02-10** Notice of hearing for February 23, 2021
- **2021-01-11** Referred to Urban Affairs Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-07** 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/4bb4ec53-f7d4-4308-b0a6-a5e696f7d81a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nebraska legislature records).