---
type: "Bill"
title: "Change the Sports Arena Facility Financing Assistance Act and allowable uses of competitive grants awarded by the Nebraska Arts Council"
description: "Change the Sports Arena Facility Financing Assistance Act and allowable uses of competitive grants awarded by the Nebraska Arts Council"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ne"
legislature: "Nebraska Legislature"
session: "108"
identifier: "LB 1197"
citation: "Nebraska LB 1197 (108)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["von Gillern"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-01-16"
last_action: "2024-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/04d04ae2-a3b2-481b-a672-35a7bc56fee8"
source_url: "https://nebraskalegislature.gov/bills/search_by_date.php?SessionDay=2024"
source_hash: "14ecce5a7ddaf06c660bbed2a99fd9953cc692b2ff6e7d1467bdf12b262671bc"
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 1197 (108) — Change the Sports Arena Facility Financing Assistance Act and allowable uses of competitive grants awarded by the Nebraska Arts Council

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/108/PDF/Intro/LB1197.pdf)
2. **Enrollment and Review ER98** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/108/PDF/AM/ER98.pdf)
3. **Final Reading** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/108/PDF/Final/LB1197.pdf)
4. **Revenue AM2419** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/108/PDF/AM/AM2419.pdf)
5. **Slip Law** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/108/PDF/Slip/LB1197.pdf)
6. **von Gillern AM2715** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/108/PDF/AM/AM2715.pdf)

## Votes

- von Gillern AM2715 adopted — **33–2** (fail) · legislature
- Passed on Final Reading 43-0-6 — **43–0** (pass) · legislature
- Revenue AM2419 adopted — **36–0** (fail) · legislature
- Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial — **34–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- von Gillern — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-04-18** Approved by Governor on April 16, 2024 `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-18** Presented to Governor on April 11, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-11** President/Speaker signed `passage`
- **2024-04-11** Passed on Final Reading 43-0-6 `passage`
- **2024-04-11** Dispensing of reading at large approved
- **2024-04-10** Attorney General Opinion 24-002 to von Gillern and Aguilar
- **2024-04-09** Placed on Final Reading `reading-3`
- **2024-04-09** Advanced to Enrollment and Review for Engrossment
- **2024-04-09** Enrollment and Review ER98 adopted
- **2024-03-25** Enrollment and Review ER98 filed `filing`
- **2024-03-25** Placed on Select File with ER98 `filing`
- **2024-03-14** Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial
- **2024-03-14** von Gillern AM2379 withdrawn
- **2024-03-14** Revenue AM2419 adopted
- **2024-03-14** von Gillern AM2715 adopted
- **2024-02-28** von Gillern AM2715 to AM2419 filed `filing`
- **2024-02-20** Speaker priority bill
- **2024-02-13** Revenue AM2419 filed `filing`
- **2024-02-13** Placed on General File with AM2419 `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-08** von Gillern AM2379 filed `filing`
- **2024-02-01** Notice of hearing for February 08, 2024
- **2024-01-17** Referred to Revenue Committee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-16** 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/04d04ae2-a3b2-481b-a672-35a7bc56fee8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nebraska legislature records).