Senator’s Bill Would Give $2,000 Tax Credit for Stillborn Child
Lincoln – Women who deliver a stillborn baby could get a $2,000 tax credit from the state government under a new proposal.
Legislative Bill 597 from Sen. Joni Albrecht of Thurston would offer a refundable credit if the fetus had advanced to at least the 20th week of gestation and the child would have been a dependent of the person claiming the credit.
Nebraska lawmakers introduced their final legislation of the year last Wednesday, for a total of 684 bills and 12 proposed constitutional amendments.
The new measures submitted include proposals to overhaul the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, make it easier for public school teachers to leave unions and lower the corporate income tax rate. One bill would provide a spelled-out legal right to refuse vaccinations that are mandated by state government, although it’s extremely unlikely the state would issue such an order in the current pandemic.
Lawmakers introduced a total of 98 measures on the final day of bill introduction. Among the other proposals introduced were:
• LB 590, sponsored by North Platte Sen. Mike Groene, which would change time periods for ballots for early voting;
• LB 619, sponsored by Bellevue Sen. Rita Sanders, which would change excavation requirements under the One-Call Notification System Act;
• LB 621, sponsored by Henderson Sen. Curt Friesen, which would adopt the Social Media Fairness Act; • LB 623, sponsored by Omaha Sen. Tony Vargas, which would adopt the Remote Instruction Act;
• LB 636, sponsored by Omaha Sen. John Cavanaugh, which would eliminate cash bail bonds, appearance bonds and related provisions;
• LB 639, sponsored by Omaha Sen. Jen Day, which would adopt the Seizure Safe Schools Act;
• LB 643, sponsored by Blair Sen. Ben Hansen, which would protect an individual liberty right to accept or decline a vaccination under a mandatory directive;
• LB 650, sponsored by Norfolk Sen. Michael Flood, which would adopt the Nebraska Geologic Storage of Carbon Dioxide Act; and
• LB 663, sponsored by Lincoln Sen. Suzanne Geist, which would require the Nebraska Commission on Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice to create a mental health indicator in a criminal justice information system to alert emergency dispatch operators.
A complete list of bills is available at nebraskalegislature.gov.
Unicameral Information Office contributed to this report.
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