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On April 16, 2014, Governor Heineman signed Legislative Bill 1115, a bill appropriating funds for a study of state, regional, and national transmission infrastructure and policy. Introduced by Senator Al Davis, LB 1115 requires the Nebraska Power Review Board to produce the transmission study and to submit its results to […]

Governor Heineman approved Legislative Bill 1098 on April 9, 2014. LB 1098 reconstructs the make-up and duties of the Nebraska Natural Resources Commission by increasing the number of appointed members to fourteen, describing the categories that members will represent, and by setting the future term of newly appointed members among […]

Governor Heineman approved Legislative Bill 1067 on April 9, 2014. LB 1067 changes provisions relating to sales and use tax refunds, extends sunset dates for tax incentives under the Nebraska Advantage Act, the Nebraska Advantage Research and Development Act, and the Nebraska Advantage Microenterprise Tax Credit Act to 2017. LB […]

Legislative Bill 845 sought to repeal the current statute relating to the registration and marking of meteorological evaluation towers (“MET”) and to provide a new definition for METs and new requirements for registration and identification markers. We detailed the provisions of LB 845 in an article shortly after its introduction. While […]

Governor Heineman approved the Nebraska Benefit Corporation Act on April 2, 2014. Nebraska joins approximately twenty other states that have adopted benefit-corporation legislation, a list which is expected to grow as Nebraska was one of fifteen states considering such legislation this year. Introduced by Senator Danielle Conrad as Legislative Bill […]