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NebraskaLB1181A109th Legislature 1st and 2nd Sessionslegislature

Appropriation Bill

Sponsored By: Carolyn Bosn

Signed by Governor

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

6 provisions identified: 6 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

Parole, release, and pardon notices

After a felony conviction, the county attorney sends your contact info to parole, corrections, DHHS, and pardons officials so you can get updates. You can waive notices and later ask in writing to restart them; for DHHS cases you may request within three years after the person leaves DHHS. The Parole Board must tell you within 90 days after conviction the tentative release and earliest parole dates, plus hearings, decisions, and returns to custody. Corrections must tell you about 24+ hour furloughs or releases, community program start and end, escapes and returns, discharge (30 days ahead when possible), earliest release calculations within 30 days of your request, and any cut to a minimum sentence. The Pardons Board must give you 30 days’ advance notice of a hearing and notify you within 10 days after a pardon or commutation. Agencies must adopt rules, and your contact info is exempt from public-records release.

Appeal and escape alerts for victims

If the defendant appeals, the county attorney gives your info to the Attorney General, who must tell you an appeal was filed, explain the process and possible outcomes, give hearing times and changes, say if the defendant is released pending appeal, and report the result and final decision within 30 days after it’s final. If a prisoner escapes, you and the prosecutor must be told right away. The detention agency’s chief alerts you before sentencing or delivery to corrections; the facility chief alerts you if the person was already serving a sentence.

Notices during mental health commitments

DHHS must notify you if a person convicted of a covered offense is the subject of a mental-health or sex-offender commitment petition before discharge or within 30 days after discharge. DHHS must also tell you about escapes and returns, discharges or changes in disposition, 24+ hour furloughs or releases, and the start and end of education or work-release programs. The county attorney who files a petition notifies corrections, which forwards victim contacts to DHHS.

Victim rights guide and case access

The state creates a pamphlet on case steps, your rights, safety tips, and compensation. The county attorney must give it to you within 72 hours after arraignment. You may review public case records like arrests, charges, and outcomes, but not investigative files. The law explains who counts as a victim, including people harmed by serious crimes, nearest relatives in homicide cases, child victims and their parents or guardians, some theft victims with losses of $5,000 or more, and sexual assault victims.

Victims can enforce reparations

If you are a victim under state law, you can file a civil case to ask a judge to order compliance with the Nebraska Crime Victim’s Reparations Act. This gives you a direct way to enforce your reparations rights.

Victims get a voice and privacy

Prosecutors must talk with the victim before a plea deal and record it. Victims’ written statements must be included in presentence reports, and probation must certify outreach if none were received. Prosecutors must tell victims when a jailhouse informant gets leniency tied to testimony. Presentence reports are confidential, viewed electronically by counsel, and courts can redact victim and witness contact details for safety. Victims’ personal details, other than name, must not appear on public court filings.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Carolyn Bosn

    legislature

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 165 • No: 0

legislature vote • 4/24/2026

Vote

Yes: 38 • No: 0 • Other: 11

legislature vote • 4/10/2026

Final Reading

Yes: 49 • No: 0

legislature vote • 4/1/2026

Vote

Yes: 38 • No: 0 • Other: 11

legislature vote • 3/19/2026

Vote

Yes: 40 • No: 0 • Other: 9

Actions Timeline

  1. Presented to Governor on April 10, 2026

    4/17/2026legislature

  2. Approved by Governor on April 14, 2026

    4/17/2026legislature

  3. Passed on Final Reading 49-0-0

    4/10/2026legislature

  4. President/Speaker signed

    4/10/2026legislature

  5. Placed on Final Reading

    4/7/2026legislature

  6. Bosn AM2983 adopted

    4/1/2026legislature

  7. Advanced to Enrollment and Review for Engrossment

    4/1/2026legislature

  8. Bosn AM2983 filed

    3/30/2026legislature

  9. Placed on Select File

    3/25/2026legislature

  10. Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial

    3/19/2026legislature

  11. Date of introduction

    3/17/2026legislature

  12. Placed on General File

    3/17/2026legislature

Bill Text

  • Introduced

    4/17/2026

    PDF

  • Enrolled / Slip Law

    PDF

  • Final / Enacted

    PDF

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