All Roll Calls
Yes: 86 • No: 1
NebraskaLB197109th Legislature 1st and 2nd SessionslegislatureWALLET
Change provisions relating to disqualification for benefits, claim determinations, and claim redeterminations under the Employment Security Law
Sponsored By: Jared Storm
Signed by Governor
Business and Labor Committee
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 1 mixed.
Keep unemployment pay going during appeals
An adjudicator named by the commissioner promptly decides your claim. Each decision says if you get benefits for that week and how much. For your first week of a benefit year, it also lists whether you had the required wages, the first day of your benefit year, your weekly amount, and your year’s maximum. If your claim is denied, you get the reasons and quick notice; the decision is final unless you appeal on time. If you are found eligible, payments continue while an appeal is pending until a hearing officer changes the decision. Any later overpayment is handled under the overpayment rules.
Unemployment rules during labor disputes
The law denies unemployment benefits for any week your total unemployment is due to a work stoppage from a labor dispute at your last workplace. You still qualify only if you did not take part in, pay for, or have a direct interest in the dispute, and you are not in a worker group that included participants. Separate departments that are run like their own business count as separate workplaces. Claims from the same dispute can be decided together. In these cases, the Commissioner of Labor reviews the findings and issues the decision.
When your unemployment case can reopen
An adjudicator may reopen a decision only for certain reasons: a math or identity error, newly found wages, misrepresented facts, or an error found by a federal quality‑control review. No redetermination can be made more than two years after the original decision. Parties get prompt notice of any redetermination. If benefits change, you may appeal only the changed issues, and any pending appeal now applies to the redetermination. The Commissioner of Labor may also ask a hearing officer or court to issue a revised decision.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Jared Storm
legislature
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
legislature vote • 3/6/2025
Final Reading
Yes: 47 • No: 1
legislature vote • 1/31/2025
Vote
Yes: 39 • No: 0 • Other: 10
Actions Timeline
Approved by Governor on March 11, 2025
3/12/2025legislaturePassed on Final Reading 47-1*-1
3/6/2025legislaturePresident/Speaker signed
3/6/2025legislaturePresented to Governor on March 6, 2025
3/6/2025legislaturePlaced on Final Reading
2/20/2025legislatureAdvanced to Enrollment and Review for Engrossment
2/13/2025legislaturePlaced on Select File
2/6/2025legislatureAdvanced to Enrollment and Review Initial
1/31/2025legislaturePlaced on General File
1/29/2025legislatureNotice of hearing for January 27, 2025
1/17/2025legislatureReferred to Business and Labor Committee
1/16/2025legislatureDate of introduction
1/14/2025legislature
Bill Text
Introduced
3/12/2025
Enrolled / Slip Law
Final / Enacted