Publications

Legislative Bill 191 would create a credit against Nebraska income tax for investment in the rehabilitation of a historic building or a building that contributes to a historic district. Baird Holm developed this legislation and lobbied for it pro bono in 2012. We continued working on this effort in 2013, […]

Renewable energy played its most prominent role yet in the Nebraska Legislature in 2013.  This culminated in the Legislature passing Legislative Bill 104, which provides a sales tax refund to a renewable energy project that entails at least $20,000,000 of investment.  This puts Nebraska relatively even with neighboring states that […]

The first session of the 103rd Nebraska Legislature adjourned sine die on June 5, 2013. Lawmakers passed 214 of the 661 bills introduced in this 90-day session. Below is our final update on the bills we tracked this session related to real property, renewable energy and municipal law.  103rd Nebraska Legislature, […]

Tax-exempt hospitals are required by section 501(r) of the Internal Revenue Code to perform a community health needs assessment (“CHNA”) at least once every three years. Tax-exempt hospitals must both perform and complete a CHNA and formally adopt an implementation strategy based on the CHNA by the end of their […]

On April 30th, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it will begin compliance reviews to support language access programs in critical access hospitals (CAHs) as part of federal efforts to reduce health disparities. OCR reviews will focus on compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of […]