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type: "Bill"
title: "Change requirements for legal publications and notices required by law, provisions of the Open Meetings Act, county inventories, warrants, and discharge records, storage requirements for certain records, petitions to change names, marriage license and record fees, reports of abandoned property, and the Nebraska Hall of Fame and eliminate a penalty for certain public officials and provisions relating to the registration of farm, ranch, or home names"
description: "Change requirements for legal publications and notices required by law, provisions of the Open Meetings Act, county inventories, warrants, and discharge records, storage requirements for certain records, petitions to change names, marriage license and record fees, reports of abandoned property, and the Nebraska Hall of Fame and eliminate a penalty for certain public officials and provisions relating to the registration of farm, ranch, or home names"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ne"
legislature: "Nebraska Legislature"
session: "109"
identifier: "LB 596"
citation: "Nebraska LB 596 (109)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sanders"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 41
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-01-22"
last_action: "2026-04-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f5273c83-2515-40ad-aebb-7aa9b239a83b"
source_url: "https://nebraskalegislature.gov/bills/search_by_date.php?SessionDay=2025"
source_hash: "8f85ff35b556843547f40c7fcdacf9c27a3247542bca1cb033f06943dcb146d1"
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 596 (109) — Change requirements for legal publications and notices required by law, provisions of the Open Meetings Act, county inventories, warrants, and discharge records, storage requirements for certain records, petitions to change names, marriage license and record fees, reports of abandoned property, and the Nebraska Hall of Fame and eliminate a penalty for certain public officials and provisions relating to the registration of farm, ranch, or home names
## 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/LB596.pdf)
2. **DeKay AM2428** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM2428.pdf)
3. **Enrollment and Review ER140** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/ER140.pdf)
4. **Final Reading** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/Final/LB596.pdf)
5. **Government, Military and Veterans Affairs AM2282 Rountree FA1027 DeKay AM2428 Lonowski AM2405** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM2282.pdf)
6. **Lonowski AM2730** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/AM2730.pdf)
7. **Rountree FA1027** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/AM/FA1027.pdf)
8. **Slip Law** (committee substitute) — [source](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/Slip/LB596.pdf)
## Votes
- Government, Military and Veterans Affairs AM2282 adopted — **390** (fail) · legislature
- Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial — **401** (pass) · legislature
- Passed on Final Reading 46-3*-0 — **463** (pass) · legislature
- Lonowski AM2730 adopted — **291** (fail) · legislature
- DeKay AM2428 adopted — **320** (fail) · legislature
- Rountree FA1027 adopted — **370** (fail) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Sanders — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2026-04-17** Provisions/portions of LB1159 amended into LB596 by AM2730
- **2026-04-17** Provisions/portions of LB1145 amended into LB596 by AM2282
- **2026-04-17** Provisions/portions of LB923 amended into LB596 by AM2282
- **2026-04-17** Provisions/portions of LB919 amended into LB596 by AM2282
- **2026-04-17** Provisions/portions of LB898 amended into LB596 by AM2282
- **2026-04-17** Provisions/portions of LB896 amended into LB596 by AM2282
- **2026-04-17** Provisions/portions of LB869 amended into LB596 by AM2428
- **2026-04-17** Provisions/portions of LB739 amended into LB596 by FA1027
- **2026-04-17** Approved by Governor on April 14, 2026 `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-17** Presented to Governor on April 10, 2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-10** President/Speaker signed `passage`
- **2026-04-10** Passed on Final Reading 46-3*-0 `passage`
- **2026-04-10** Dispensing of reading at large approved
- **2026-04-07** Enrollment and Review ST79 recorded
- **2026-04-07** Enrollment and Review ST79 filed `filing`
- **2026-04-07** Placed on Final Reading with ST79 `reading-3`
- **2026-03-31** Advanced to Enrollment and Review for Engrossment
- **2026-03-31** Dover AM2987 not further considered
- **2026-03-31** Chair ruled AM2987 not germane
- **2026-03-31** Lonowski AM2730 adopted
- **2026-03-31** Enrollment and Review ER140 adopted
- **2026-03-30** Dover AM2987 filed `filing`
- **2026-03-18** Lonowski AM2730 filed `filing`
- **2026-03-11** Enrollment and Review ER140 filed `filing`
- **2026-03-11** Placed on Select File with ER140 `filing`
- **2026-03-05** Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial
- **2026-03-05** Government, Military and Veterans Affairs AM2282 adopted
- **2026-03-05** Rountree FA1027 adopted
- **2026-03-05** Rountree FA1027 filed `filing`
- **2026-03-05** DeKay AM2428 adopted
- **2026-03-05** Lonowski AM2405 withdrawn
- **2026-03-05** Point of order on germaneness of AM2405 withdrawn
- **2026-03-04** DeKay AM2428 to AM2282 filed `filing`
- **2026-03-03** Lonowski AM2405 to AM2282 filed `filing`
- **2026-03-03** Government, Military and Veterans Affairs AM2282 filed `filing`
- **2026-03-03** Placed on General File with AM2282 `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-12** Government, Military and Veterans Affairs priority bill
- **2026-01-07** Title printed. Carryover bill
- **2025-03-03** Notice of hearing for March 13, 2025
- **2025-01-24** Referred to Government, Military and Veterans Affairs 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/f5273c83-2515-40ad-aebb-7aa9b239a83b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nebraska legislature records).