Publications

The federal government recently revised the Transportation Infrastructure Financing and Innovation Act[1] (“TIFIA”) to allow the U.S. Department of Transportation (“DOT”) to provide more financing to certain infrastructure improvement projects, including commercial to residential conversions.  The TIFIA program currently has over $70 billion dollars in lending capacity.  As of January […]

The Second Regular Session of the 108th Nebraska Legislature convened on January 3, 2024.  Through the first ten days of the Session, we identified and analyzed 87 legislative bills of interest.  Those analyses are at this link.  Summaries in our companion newsletter, the Dirt Alert, are at this link. As […]

The Second Regular Session of the 108th Nebraska Legislature convened on January 3, 2024.  As of the publishing of this article, thirty-eight (38) legislative days remain in the session.  Through the first ten days of this session we identified, analyzed and summarized one hundred and two (102) legislative bills of interest.  Links […]

Legislative Bill 531 (“LB 531”) became law on June 6, 2023.  This bill made six important changes to Community Development Law and tax increment financing (“TIF”) in Nebraska.  While LB 531 has been law for a bit, it makes enough important changes that we thought it beneficial to send a […]

The 108th Nebraska Legislature convened for the 2024 session on January 3, 2024. On the first day alone, over eighty bills were introduced. The bill introduction period concluded on January 17, 2024 and over 500 new bills were introduced, which is an ambitious attempt by the Legislature to address myriad […]