All Roll Calls
Yes: 144 • No: 0
NebraskaLB1181109th Legislature 1st and 2nd Sessionslegislature
Change provisions relating to the rights of victims of certain crimes
Sponsored By: Carolyn Bosn
Signed by Governor
Judiciary Committee
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9 provisions identified: 8 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
Get updates after conviction and custody
After a felony conviction, the county attorney must send your name and address to prisons, parole, DHHS, county corrections, and the pardons board unless you waive it. You can later request notifications in writing any time after incarceration and keep getting them while the person is under an agency. For DHHS cases, you can request within three years after DHHS jurisdiction ends. The Parole Board must tell you the tentative release date and earliest parole eligibility within 90 days of conviction, plus hearings, decisions, and some sex‑offender findings. Corrections must tell you about escapes and returns, furloughs or releases of 24 hours or more, moves to community programs (beginning and end), planned discharge (when practicable, 30 days before), sentence‑reductions, and you can ask for one mailed notice of the first parole/release calculation within 30 days of your request. DHHS must tell you when a mental‑health or sex‑offender petition is filed and about escapes, discharges, case changes, longer furloughs, and program moves. The Pardons Board must give you certified‑mail notice at least 30 days before hearings and tell you within 10 days if a pardon or commutation is granted. If a person who offended against you escapes, you and the prosecutor must be told immediately.
More people qualify as victims
The law expands who counts as a victim. It now covers people harmed in many violent crimes and some serious car crashes where the driver is charged. It includes child victims and their parents or guardians, and families of homicide victims. It also covers some theft victims when the loss is $5,000 or more and the victim and offender were intimate partners. Alleged perpetrators are not included.
Stronger voice and notice in court
You get clear information early. The county attorney must give you a victims’ rights pamphlet within 72 hours after arraignment. In abuse cases, you may file a written statement for bond change hearings when time allows. You can attend the whole trial unless a judge finds it would harm a fair trial. Your written statement to probation or the county attorney must be included in the presentence report, and officers must try to contact you if none is filed. You can read your impact statement aloud at sentencing or have someone read it, with reasonable time limits. The county attorney must promptly tell you the charges, bond, court dates and changes, the final outcome, how to give an impact statement, the probation office contact, and that the presentence report and your statement go to the defendant unless a judge orders otherwise. You may also review public case records like warrants, arrests, charges, and outcomes (not secret investigations).
Old laws repealed and replaced
The law removes several older victim‑rights and related sections and replaces them with the new, unified rules. It repeals sections 29-120 and 29-119 and other listed provisions. This cleans up the code so the new rights, notices, and privacy rules work together.
Get updates on criminal appeals
When the defendant appeals, the county attorney must give your contact to the Attorney General. The Attorney General must tell you an appeal was filed, explain the process and outcomes, and say if the defendant is out on bail. You must get notice of hearing times and changes, the result, and the final disposition within 30 days. If the conviction is reversed and sent back, you keep the same rights as before.
Prosecutors must consult you on pleas
Before making a plea deal, the prosecutor must try in good faith to talk with you about the deal and why. The office must record that outreach. This does not apply when the defendant is in a pretrial diversion or juvenile diversion program.
Speak at parole and clemency
You have a right to be told about parole matters and to speak to the Parole Board or send a statement. You can also send written statements for conditional release, parole, pardon, or commutation hearings. The board must consider your input and tell you its decision.
Stronger privacy for victim information
Your personal details (except your name) are kept out of public criminal court filings. Agencies keep your contact info confidential and exempt from public‑records requests and certain federal disclosure laws as of January 1, 2004. Agencies keep your name internally but do not put it in public records for parole or pardons hearings. Institutions may share only the parts of a patient or resident record needed to give you required notifications. The Supreme Court must set rules to carry out these privacy protections.
Sue to enforce victim reparations
If you are a victim under the law, you can file a civil case to ask a court to order compliance with the Crime Victim’s Reparations Act. This gives you a direct way to enforce your rights.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Carolyn Bosn
Senate
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
legislature vote • 4/10/2026
Final Reading
Yes: 49 • No: 0
legislature vote • 3/5/2026
Vote
Yes: 31 • No: 0 • Other: 18
legislature vote • 3/5/2026
Vote
Yes: 32 • No: 0 • Other: 17
legislature vote • Unknown
Vote
Yes: 32 • No: 0 • Other: 17
Actions Timeline
Presented to Governor on April 10, 2026
4/17/2026legislatureApproved by Governor on April 14, 2026
4/14/2026legislaturePresident/Speaker signed
4/10/2026legislaturePassed on Final Reading 49-0-0
4/10/2026legislatureDispensing of reading at large approved
4/10/2026legislatureEnrollment and Review ST68 recorded
3/19/2026legislatureEnrollment and Review ST68 filed
3/19/2026legislaturePlaced on Final Reading with ST68
3/19/2026legislatureAdvanced to Enrollment and Review for Engrossment
3/17/2026legislatureKauth FA841 withdrawn
3/17/2026legislatureEnrollment and Review ER139 adopted
3/17/2026legislatureEnrollment and Review ER139 filed
3/11/2026legislaturePlaced on Select File with ER139
3/11/2026legislatureAdvanced to Enrollment and Review Initial
3/5/2026legislatureJudiciary AM2066 adopted
3/5/2026legislatureSpeaker priority bill
2/20/2026legislatureJudiciary AM2066 filed
2/17/2026legislaturePlaced on General File with AM2066
2/17/2026legislatureNotice of hearing for February 06, 2026
1/23/2026legislatureReferred to Judiciary Committee
1/23/2026legislatureKauth FA841 filed
1/22/2026legislatureDate of introduction
1/21/2026legislature
Bill Text
Introduced
1/21/2026
Enrolled / Slip Law
Final / Enacted
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