republic-os/legislation/us/states/ne/109/lb-246.md

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Bill	Prohibit cultivated-protein food products under the Nebraska Pure Food Act and provide a deceptive trade practice	Prohibit cultivated-protein food products under the Nebraska Pure Food Act and provide a deceptive trade practice	us/states/ne	Nebraska Legislature	109	LB 246	Nebraska LB 246 (109)	bill		enacted	DeKay	5	28	5	2025-01-14	2025-05-21	openstates	ocd-bill/aa478355-d700-434d-ae18-3c2cf8009712	https://nebraskalegislature.gov/bills/search_by_date.php?SessionDay=2025	6a3e15873f919914862e0a6490849680ef5fd4695c94c2a9ec3579b8e85ced8e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ne

Nebraska LB 246 (109) — Prohibit cultivated-protein food products under the Nebraska Pure Food Act and provide a deceptive trade practice

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Agriculture AM226 (committee substitute) — source
3. Enrollment and Review ER38 (committee substitute) — source
4. Final Reading (committee substitute) — source
5. Slip Law (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• DeKay MO199 prevailed — 39–0 (fail) · legislature
• Passed on Final Reading 38-11-0 — 38–11 (pass) · legislature
• Conrad AM882 lost — 12–24 (fail) · legislature
• Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial — 33–4 (pass) · legislature
• Agriculture AM226 adopted — 33–1 (fail) · legislature

Sponsors

• DeKay — primary (person)
• Brandt — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 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 38-11-0 passage
• 2025-05-14 Dispensing of reading at large approved
• 2025-04-30 Enrollment and Review ST28 recorded
• 2025-04-30 Enrollment and Review ST28 filed filing
• 2025-04-30 Placed on Final Reading Second with ST28 reading-3
• 2025-04-25 Advanced to Enrollment and Review for Reengrossment
• 2025-04-25 DeKay MO199 prevailed
• 2025-04-24 DeKay MO199 Pursuant to Rule 6, Section 8(b)(1), recommit to Enrollment and Review to correct an error and for reengrossment filed filing
• 2025-04-23 Placed on Final Reading reading-3
• 2025-04-22 Advanced to Enrollment and Review for Engrossment
• 2025-04-22 Conrad AM882 lost
• 2025-04-17 Conrad AM882 pending
• 2025-04-17 Enrollment and Review ER38 adopted
• 2025-04-08 Enrollment and Review ER38 filed filing
• 2025-04-08 Placed on Select File with ER38 filing
• 2025-04-03 Conrad AM882 filed filing
• 2025-03-31 Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial
• 2025-03-31 Agriculture AM226 adopted
• 2025-03-17 Agriculture AM226 filed filing
• 2025-03-17 Placed on General File with AM226 committee-passage
• 2025-03-14 Agriculture priority bill
• 2025-02-03 Notice of hearing for February 18, 2025
• 2025-01-16 Referred to Agriculture Committee referral-committee
• 2025-01-15 Brandt name added
• 2025-01-14 Date of introduction introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/aa478355-d700-434d-ae18-3c2cf8009712. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nebraska legislature records).