republic-os/legislation/us/states/ne/109/lb-317.md

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Bill	Merge the Department of Natural Resources with the Department of Environment and Energy and change the name to the Department of Water, Energy, and Environment, create the position of Chief Water Officer, and provide, change, and eliminate powers and duties relating to water, conservation, state game refuges, and low-level radioactive waste disposal	Merge the Department of Natural Resources with the Department of Environment and Energy and change the name to the Department of Water, Energy, and Environment, create the position of Chief Water Officer, and provide, change, and eliminate powers and duties relating to water, conservation, state game refuges, and low-level radioactive waste disposal	us/states/ne	Nebraska Legislature	109	LB 317	Nebraska LB 317 (109)	bill		enacted	Brandt	8	35	9	2025-01-16	2025-05-06	openstates	ocd-bill/c9bdba98-7555-4237-9aab-02e3d809fd04	https://nebraskalegislature.gov/bills/search_by_date.php?SessionDay=2025	66535b20a94a3765f36a7d29d22237885bb79f2e71232bf3230e5a72118da91d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ne

Nebraska LB 317 (109) — Merge the Department of Natural Resources with the Department of Environment and Energy and change the name to the Department of Water, Energy, and Environment, create the position of Chief Water Officer, and provide, change, and eliminate powers and duties relating to water, conservation, state game refuges, and low-level radioactive waste disposal

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Brandt AM1084 (committee substitute) — source
3. Conrad AM1124 (committee substitute) — source
4. Enrollment and Review ER36 (committee substitute) — source
5. Final Reading (committee substitute) — source
6. Natural Resources AM711 (committee substitute) — source
7. Slip Law (committee substitute) — source
8. Storer FA116 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Cavanaugh, J. AM1133 lost — 13–33 (fail) · legislature
• Brandt AM1084 adopted — 36–0 (fail) · legislature
• Passed on Final Reading with Emergency Clause 34-12*-3 — 34–12 (pass) · legislature
• Natural Resources AM711 adopted — 30–4 (fail) · legislature
• Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial — 31–2 (pass) · legislature
• Conrad AM1124 adopted — 34–8 (fail) · legislature
• Storer FA116 adopted — 46–0 (fail) · legislature
• Cavanaugh, J. FA117 lost — 12–29 (fail) · legislature
• Cavanaugh, M. MO183 failed — 1–29 (fail) · legislature

Sponsors

• Brandt — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-06 Approved by Governor on May 6, 2025 executive-signature
• 2025-05-01 Presented to Governor on May 1, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-05-01 President/Speaker signed passage
• 2025-05-01 Passed on Final Reading with Emergency Clause 34-12*-3 passage
• 2025-05-01 Dispensing of reading at large approved
• 2025-04-29 Enrollment and Review ST29 recorded
• 2025-04-29 Enrollment and Review ST29 filed filing
• 2025-04-29 Placed on Final Reading with ST29 reading-3
• 2025-04-22 Advanced to Enrollment and Review for Engrossment
• 2025-04-22 Cavanaugh, J. AM1133 lost
• 2025-04-22 Cavanaugh, J. FA117 lost
• 2025-04-22 Cavanaugh, J. FA117 to AM1133 filed filing
• 2025-04-22 Cavanaugh, J. AM1133 filed filing
• 2025-04-22 Storer FA116 adopted
• 2025-04-22 Storer FA116 filed filing
• 2025-04-22 Conrad AM1124 adopted
• 2025-04-22 Conrad AM1124 filed filing
• 2025-04-22 Brandt AM1084 adopted
• 2025-04-22 Brandt AM1035 withdrawn
• 2025-04-22 Cavanaugh, M. MO183 failed
• 2025-04-22 Cavanaugh, M. MO183 pending
• 2025-04-22 Enrollment and Review ER36 adopted
• 2025-04-17 Cavanaugh, M. MO183 Bracket until May 5, 2025 filed filing
• 2025-04-17 Brandt AM1084 to ER36 filed filing
• 2025-04-14 Brandt AM1035 to ER36 filed filing
• 2025-04-10 Enrollment and Review ER36 filed filing
• 2025-04-10 Placed on Select File with ER36 filing
• 2025-04-02 Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial
• 2025-04-02 Natural Resources AM711 adopted
• 2025-03-27 Natural Resources AM711 filed filing
• 2025-03-27 Placed on General File with AM711 committee-passage
• 2025-03-12 Natural Resources priority bill
• 2025-02-06 Notice of hearing for February 13, 2025
• 2025-01-21 Referred to Natural Resources Committee referral-committee
• 2025-01-16 Date of introduction introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c9bdba98-7555-4237-9aab-02e3d809fd04. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nebraska legislature records).