---
type: "Bill"
title: "Change insurance provisions relating to firefighters and include correctional officers, youth detention officers, certain disabled persons, and their children in the First Responder Recruitment and Retention Act"
description: "Change insurance provisions relating to firefighters and include correctional officers, youth detention officers, certain disabled persons, and their children in the First Responder Recruitment and Retention Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ne"
legislature: "Nebraska Legislature"
session: "109"
identifier: "LB 608"
citation: "Nebraska LB 608 (109)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bostar"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 37
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-01-22"
last_action: "2025-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/36ef4193-4b18-4ff9-b74b-b483a8f6b771"
source_url: "https://nebraskalegislature.gov/bills/search_by_date.php?SessionDay=2025"
source_hash: "562d5f43b9c9a9c749f7934167e0657108d2ec323c2bbd098a84d5f8defe715a"
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 608 (109) — Change insurance provisions relating to firefighters and include correctional officers, youth detention officers, certain disabled persons, and their children in the First Responder Recruitment and Retention 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/LB608.pdf)
2. **Bostar AM1347** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM1347.pdf)
3. **Enrollment and Review ER59** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/ER59.pdf)
4. **Final Reading** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/Final/LB608.pdf)
5. **Revenue AM904** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM904.pdf)
6. **Slip Law** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/Slip/LB608.pdf)

## Votes

- Revenue AM904 adopted — **33–0** (fail) · legislature
- Cavanaugh, J. MO234 failed — **0–41** (fail) · legislature
- Bostar AM1347 adopted — **41–0** (fail) · legislature
- Passed on Final Reading 36-12*-1 — **36–12** (pass) · legislature
- Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial — **35–0** (pass) · legislature
- Advanced to Enrollment and Review for Engrossment — **29–5** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Bostar — primary (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 36-12*-1 `passage`
- **2025-05-30** Dispensing of reading at large approved
- **2025-05-30** Cavanaugh, M. FA194 withdrawn
- **2025-05-30** Cavanaugh, M. FA193 withdrawn
- **2025-05-12** Placed on Final Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-05-08** Cavanaugh, M. FA194 filed `filing`
- **2025-05-08** Cavanaugh, M. FA193 filed `filing`
- **2025-05-08** Advanced to Enrollment and Review for Engrossment
- **2025-05-08** Hallstrom AM1356 withdrawn
- **2025-05-08** Hallstrom AM1356 filed `filing`
- **2025-05-08** Wordekemper AM1129 withdrawn
- **2025-05-08** Cavanaugh, J. FA192 withdrawn
- **2025-05-08** Cavanaugh, J. MO236 withdrawn
- **2025-05-08** Cavanaugh, J. MO236 Reconsider the vote taken on MO234 filed `filing`
- **2025-05-08** Cavanaugh, J. MO234 failed
- **2025-05-08** Cavanaugh, J. MO234 Bracket until June 9, 2025 filed `filing`
- **2025-05-08** Cavanaugh, J. FA192 to AM1129 filed `filing`
- **2025-05-08** Motion to overrule Chair prevailed
- **2025-05-08** Motion to overrule Chair pending
- **2025-05-08** Chair ruled AM1129 not germane
- **2025-05-08** Wordekemper AM1129 filed `filing`
- **2025-05-08** Bostar AM1347 adopted
- **2025-05-08** Bostar AM1347 filed `filing`
- **2025-05-08** Enrollment and Review ER59 adopted
- **2025-04-29** Enrollment and Review ER59 filed `filing`
- **2025-04-29** Placed on Select File with ER59 `filing`
- **2025-04-24** Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial
- **2025-04-24** Revenue AM904 adopted
- **2025-04-10** Revenue AM904 filed `filing`
- **2025-04-10** Placed on General File with AM904 `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-13** Wordekemper priority bill
- **2025-01-28** Notice of hearing for February 05, 2025
- **2025-01-24** Referred to Revenue Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-22** 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/36ef4193-4b18-4ff9-b74b-b483a8f6b771`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nebraska legislature records).