The Latest Breaking News from Jim Pillen

Support Our Schools Nebraska filed more than 117,000 signatures on Aug. 30 for a veto referendum to repeal Legislative Bill 753, which authorized tax credits for taxpayers who contribute to education scholarships for students to attend private schools. 

The compassionate part only serves to make authoritarianism more palatable

The state’s constitution states that ‘no bill shall contain more than one subject’

Political scientist says majority of Nebraska legislators ‘seem not to know or care what they’re doing as long as it feels right to them and they have the votes to do it’

Republican Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen is scheduled to sign a bill Monday that bans abortion at 12 weeks of pregnancy and restricts gender-affirming medical care for people younger than 19

The bill, likely the first to combine limits on abortion and gender-affirming care, heads to the governor's desk next.

Hundreds of people protested legislation targeting trans youth and abortion rights

Nebraska lawmakers are debating a plan that would tack on a proposed 12-week abortion ban to a bill that would ban gender-affirming care in transgender minors

"Once a woman became pregnant for any reason, she would now become property of the state of South Carolina," said one state senator.

An effort to advance a bill that would ban abortion once cardiac activity can be detected, generally around the sixth week of pregnancy, fell one vote short Thursday of breaking a filibuster in the Nebraska Legislature

Nebraska could join 48 other states in offering public money for private school tuition under a bill advanced by the state Legislature on Wednesday