---
type: "Bill"
title: "Create the School Financing Review Commission and change provisions relating to budget authority under the Tax Equity and Educational Opportunities Support Act"
description: "Create the School Financing Review Commission and change provisions relating to budget authority under the Tax Equity and Educational Opportunities Support Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ne"
legislature: "Nebraska Legislature"
session: "109"
identifier: "LB 303"
citation: "Nebraska LB 303 (109)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hughes"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 45
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-01-15"
last_action: "2025-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d7434786-5a64-417b-b2ce-5feae69c74a6"
source_url: "https://nebraskalegislature.gov/bills/search_by_date.php?SessionDay=2025"
source_hash: "d5fa95bff04cd2ef00b8a17b6f9fe96a119041620b6b2db761e9615df1fac930"
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 303 (109) — Create the School Financing Review Commission and change provisions relating to budget authority under the Tax Equity and Educational Opportunities Support Act

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/Intro/LB303.pdf)
2. **Ballard AM1602** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM1602.pdf)
3. **Education AM1350** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM1350.pdf)
4. **Enrollment and Review ER91** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/ER91.pdf)
5. **Final Reading** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/Final/LB303.pdf)
6. **Hughes AM1593 Cavanaugh, M. FA322** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM1593.pdf)
7. **Slip Law** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/Slip/LB303.pdf)

## Votes

- Passed on Final Reading with Emergency Clause 48-0-1 — **48–0** (pass) · legislature
- Ballard AM1602 adopted — **38–0** (fail) · legislature
- Cavanaugh, M. FA322 lost — **2–34** (fail) · legislature
- Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Hughes AM1593 adopted — **43–0** (fail) · legislature
- Education AM1350 adopted — **40–0** (fail) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Hughes — primary (person)
- Conrad — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-06** Approved by Governor on June 4, 2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-30** Presented to Governor on May 30, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-30** President/Speaker signed `passage`
- **2025-05-30** Passed on Final Reading with Emergency Clause 48-0-1 `passage`
- **2025-05-30** Dispensing of reading at large approved
- **2025-05-28** Enrollment and Review ST47 recorded
- **2025-05-28** Enrollment and Review ST47 filed `filing`
- **2025-05-28** Placed on Final Reading with ST47 `reading-3`
- **2025-05-28** Advanced to Enrollment and Review for Engrossment
- **2025-05-28** Hughes MO312 withdrawn
- **2025-05-28** Hughes MO311 withdrawn
- **2025-05-28** Hughes MO310 withdrawn
- **2025-05-28** Hallstrom AM1613 withdrawn
- **2025-05-28** Andersen AM1612 withdrawn
- **2025-05-28** Hallstrom AM1610 withdrawn
- **2025-05-28** Ballard AM1602 adopted
- **2025-05-28** Hughes AM1594 withdrawn
- **2025-05-28** No objections to unanimous consent to withdraw and substitute amendment
- **2025-05-28** Ballard AM1602 filed `filing`
- **2025-05-28** Hughes AM1593 adopted
- **2025-05-28** Cavanaugh, M. MO320 withdrawn
- **2025-05-28** Cavanaugh, M. MO320 Reconsider the vote taken on FA322 filed `filing`
- **2025-05-28** Cavanaugh, M. FA322 lost
- **2025-05-28** Cavanaugh, M. FA322 to AM1593 filed `filing`
- **2025-05-28** Hughes AM1593 pending
- **2025-05-28** Enrollment and Review ER91 adopted
- **2025-05-27** Hughes MO312 Indefinitely postpone filed `filing`
- **2025-05-27** Hughes MO311 Recommit to the Education Committee filed `filing`
- **2025-05-27** Hughes MO310 Bracket until June 2, 2025 filed `filing`
- **2025-05-27** Andersen AM1612 filed `filing`
- **2025-05-27** Hallstrom AM1613 filed `filing`
- **2025-05-27** Hallstrom AM1610 filed `filing`
- **2025-05-27** Enrollment and Review ER91 filed `filing`
- **2025-05-27** Placed on Select File with ER91 `filing`
- **2025-05-27** Hughes AM1594 filed `filing`
- **2025-05-27** Hughes AM1593 filed `filing`
- **2025-05-21** Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial
- **2025-05-21** Education AM1350 adopted
- **2025-05-15** Education AM1350 filed `filing`
- **2025-05-15** Placed on General File with AM1350 `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-13** Hughes priority bill
- **2025-02-18** Conrad name added
- **2025-02-03** Notice of hearing for February 10, 2025
- **2025-01-17** Referred to Education Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-15** 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/d7434786-5a64-417b-b2ce-5feae69c74a6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nebraska legislature records).