---
type: "Bill"
title: "Adopt the Domestic Violence and Sex Trafficking Survivor Assistance Act, change provisions relating to sentencing juveniles, and change the rate and allocation of the documentary stamp tax"
description: "Adopt the Domestic Violence and Sex Trafficking Survivor Assistance Act, change provisions relating to sentencing juveniles, and change the rate and allocation of the documentary stamp tax"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ne"
legislature: "Nebraska Legislature"
session: "109"
identifier: "LB 78"
citation: "Nebraska LB 78 (109)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bostar"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-09"
last_action: "2025-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/26c5c16c-8edb-43eb-af38-9da3c8e45f3e"
source_url: "https://nebraskalegislature.gov/bills/search_by_date.php?SessionDay=2025"
source_hash: "2d9215ba2aeb2d33af30fee0e08ffc025b51b8818b52cadf24fc179d9f4b4e81"
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 78 (109) — Adopt the Domestic Violence and Sex Trafficking Survivor Assistance Act, change provisions relating to sentencing juveniles, and change the rate and allocation of the documentary stamp tax

## 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/LB78.pdf)
2. **Bostar AM784** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM784.pdf)
3. **Enrollment and Review ER29** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/ER29.pdf)
4. **Final Reading** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/Final/LB78.pdf)
5. **Guereca AM737** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM737.pdf)
6. **Slip Law** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/Slip/LB78.pdf)

## Votes

- Passed on Final Reading 49-0-0 — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
- Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial — **43–0** (pass) · legislature
- Guereca AM737 adopted — **33–2** (fail) · legislature
- Bostar AM784 adopted — **39–0** (fail) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Bostar — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-06** Provisions/portions of LB159 amended into LB78 by AM737
- **2025-05-21** Approved by Governor on May 20, 2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-14** Presented to Governor on May 14, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-14** President/Speaker signed `passage`
- **2025-05-14** Passed on Final Reading 49-0-0 `passage`
- **2025-05-14** Dispensing of reading at large approved
- **2025-04-15** Enrollment and Review ST19 recorded
- **2025-04-15** Enrollment and Review ST19 filed `filing`
- **2025-04-15** Placed on Final Reading with ST19 `reading-3`
- **2025-04-09** Advanced to Enrollment and Review for Engrossment
- **2025-04-09** Bostar AM784 adopted
- **2025-04-09** Enrollment and Review ER29 adopted
- **2025-04-03** Bostar AM784 filed `filing`
- **2025-03-27** Enrollment and Review ER29 filed `filing`
- **2025-03-27** Placed on Select File with ER29 `filing`
- **2025-03-19** Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial
- **2025-03-19** Guereca AM737 adopted
- **2025-03-19** Guereca AM737 filed `filing`
- **2025-03-11** State-Tribal Relations priority bill
- **2025-03-10** Placed on General File `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-15** Notice of hearing for January 22, 2025
- **2025-01-13** Referred to Revenue Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-09** 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/26c5c16c-8edb-43eb-af38-9da3c8e45f3e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nebraska legislature records).