---
type: "Bill"
title: "Provide for appointment of temporary guardians and change provisions relating to attorney's fees, third-party practice, change of name proceedings, enforcement of debts against certain victims, controlled substances schedules, decedents' estates, and crime victims' reparations"
description: "Provide for appointment of temporary guardians and change provisions relating to attorney's fees, third-party practice, change of name proceedings, enforcement of debts against certain victims, controlled substances schedules, decedents' estates, and crime victims' reparations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ne"
legislature: "Nebraska Legislature"
session: "108"
identifier: "LB 157"
citation: "Nebraska LB 157 (108)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["DeBoer"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 62
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2023-01-09"
last_action: "2023-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d7ae6bed-9774-4a9f-a10c-cd4edc712511"
source_url: "https://nebraskalegislature.gov/bills/search_by_date.php?SessionDay=2023"
source_hash: "56bd4c7963840e314fb4a70a3e595c092a652de2cde2ec2b3bc0da68d9954594"
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 157 (108) — Provide for appointment of temporary guardians and change provisions relating to attorney's fees, third-party practice, change of name proceedings, enforcement of debts against certain victims, controlled substances schedules, decedents' estates, and crime victims' reparations

## 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/LB157.pdf)
2. **Blood AM1993** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/108/PDF/AM/AM1993.pdf)
3. **Cavanaugh, J. AM1994** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/108/PDF/AM/AM1994.pdf)
4. **Conrad AM2002** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/108/PDF/AM/AM2002.pdf)
5. **DeBoer AM2004** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/108/PDF/AM/AM2004.pdf)
6. **Enrollment and Review ER37** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/108/PDF/AM/ER37.pdf)
7. **Final Reading** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/108/PDF/Final/LB157.pdf)
8. **Holdcroft AM1660** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/108/PDF/AM/AM1660.pdf)
9. **Judiciary AM1525** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/108/PDF/AM/AM1525.pdf)
10. **Slip Law** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/108/PDF/Slip/LB157.pdf)
11. **Wayne AM1995** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/108/PDF/AM/AM1995.pdf)

## Votes

- Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial — **34–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed on Final Reading with Emergency Clause 47-0-2 — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Blood AM1993 adopted — **27–4** (fail) · legislature
- Judiciary AM1525 adopted — **33–0** (fail) · legislature
- Holdcroft AM1660 adopted — **27–0** (fail) · legislature
- DeBoer AM2004 adopted — **39–0** (fail) · legislature
- Wayne AM1995 adopted — **33–0** (fail) · legislature
- Cavanaugh, J. AM1994 adopted — **31–1** (fail) · legislature
- Conrad AM2002 adopted — **37–0** (fail) · legislature

## Sponsors

- DeBoer — primary (person)
- Blood — cosponsor (person)
- Fredrickson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-01** Provisions/portions of LB757 amended into LB157 by AM1525
- **2023-06-01** Provisions/portions of LB480 amended into LB157 by AM1660
- **2023-06-01** Provisions/portions of LB438 amended into LB157 by AM2002
- **2023-06-01** Provisions/portions of LB436 amended into LB157 by AM1525
- **2023-06-01** Provisions/portions of LB330 amended into LB157 by AM1525
- **2023-06-01** Provisions/portions of LB315 amended into LB157 by AM1525
- **2023-06-01** Provisions/portions of LB240 amended into LB157 by AM1995
- **2023-06-01** Provisions/portions of LB183 amended into LB157 by AM1994
- **2023-06-01** Provisions/portions of LB82 amended into LB157 by AM1525
- **2023-06-01** Provisions/portions of LB11 amended into LB157 by AM1993
- **2023-06-06** Approved by Governor on June 6, 2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-06-01** Presented to Governor on June 1, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-01** President/Speaker signed `passage`
- **2023-06-01** Passed on Final Reading with Emergency Clause 47-0-2 `passage`
- **2023-06-01** Dispensing of reading at large approved
- **2023-05-30** Enrollment and Review ST28 recorded
- **2023-05-30** Enrollment and Review ST28 filed `filing`
- **2023-05-30** Placed on Final Reading with ST28 `reading-3`
- **2023-05-30** Fredrickson name added
- **2023-05-30** Advanced to Enrollment and Review for Engrossment
- **2023-05-30** Brandt AM2007 withdrawn
- **2023-05-30** Brandt AM2007 filed `filing`
- **2023-05-30** Conrad AM2002 adopted
- **2023-05-30** Conrad AM2002 filed `filing`
- **2023-05-30** DeBoer AM2004 adopted
- **2023-05-30** DeBoer AM2004 filed `filing`
- **2023-05-30** Enrollment and Review ER37 adopted
- **2023-05-30** Enrollment and Review ER37 filed `filing`
- **2023-05-30** Placed on Select File with ER37 `filing`
- **2023-05-25** Blood name added
- **2023-05-25** Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial
- **2023-05-25** Blood AM1556 withdrawn
- **2023-05-25** Judiciary AM1525 adopted
- **2023-05-25** Wayne AM1995 adopted
- **2023-05-25** Wayne AM1995 filed `filing`
- **2023-05-25** Cavanaugh, J. AM1994 adopted
- **2023-05-25** Cavanaugh, J. AM1994 filed `filing`
- **2023-05-25** Blood AM1993 adopted
- **2023-05-25** Blood AM1993 filed `filing`
- **2023-05-25** Holdcroft AM1660 adopted
- **2023-05-25** Hunt MO328 withdrawn
- **2023-05-25** Hunt MO325 withdrawn
- **2023-05-25** Hunt MO326 withdrawn
- **2023-05-25** Hunt MO327 withdrawn
- **2023-05-25** Hunt MO322 withdrawn
- **2023-05-25** Hunt MO323 withdrawn
- **2023-05-25** Hunt MO321 withdrawn
- **2023-05-10** Holdcroft AM1660 filed `filing`
- **2023-05-05** Blood AM1556 filed `filing`
- **2023-05-03** Judiciary AM1525 filed `filing`
- **2023-05-03** Placed on General File with AM1525 `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-30** Hunt MO327 Bracket until June 2, 2023 filed `filing`
- **2023-03-30** Hunt MO323 Bracket until June 1, 2023 filed `filing`
- **2023-03-30** Hunt MO328 Recommit to Judiciary Committee filed `filing`
- **2023-03-30** Hunt MO326 Recommit to Judiciary Committee filed `filing`
- **2023-03-30** Hunt MO322 Recommit to Judiciary Committee filed `filing`
- **2023-03-30** Hunt MO325 Indefinitely postpone filed `filing`
- **2023-03-30** Hunt MO321 Indefinitely postpone pursuant to Rule 6 Section 3(f) filed `filing`
- **2023-03-14** Legislature's Planning Committee priority bill
- **2023-02-24** Notice of hearing for March 03, 2023
- **2023-01-11** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-09** 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/d7ae6bed-9774-4a9f-a10c-cd4edc712511`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nebraska legislature records).