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NebraskaLB644109th Legislature 1st and 2nd SessionslegislatureWALLET
Adopt the Foreign Adversary and Terrorist Agent Registration Act and the Crush Transnational Repression in Nebraska Act, provide requirements under the Nebraska Political Accountability and Disclosure Act for conduct relating to certain foreign entities, change provisions of the Foreign Adversary Contracting Prohibition Act, and regulate storage and remote access of genetic sequencing data
Sponsored By: Eliot Bostar
Signed by Governor
Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee
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Campus expulsion for willful violators
If you willfully violate this law, a Nebraska college can expel or dismiss you and bar you from campus. This applies to students, faculty, researchers, adjuncts, and other campus employees. Every Nebraska college must adopt a policy for permanent expulsion and dismissal under this law.
Fines and filings for Chinese military lobbying
Before you start influencing for a Chinese military company in Nebraska, you must file a form naming the company, your work, and acknowledge you act for a foreign adversary. Lobbyists must also acknowledge and disclose when their principal is a Chinese military company. Civil penalties are $100,000 per violation, rising by $100,000 for each later violation, up to $1,000,000 per violation.
Tough penalties for foreign agent violations
Willful violations can be fined up to $50,000, with a total cap of $50,000 per person per calendar year. Not filing is a continuing violation, and after a deficiency notice you must fix it within 10 days or stop acting as an agent. It is unlawful to hide, destroy, or falsify required records, and pay cannot be contingent on political success. The Attorney General can seek court orders to stop violations and can issue civil investigative demands. In court, the state must name and prove the specific foreign principal. Officers and directors of organizational agents must ensure filings and can face prosecution if the organization fails to comply.
Tougher penalties for foreign agent crimes
The law raises punishments when an agent of a foreign principal commits certain crimes to coerce, retaliate, force someone to leave the U.S., or stop protected conduct. Covered crimes include assault, terroristic threats, stalking, false imprisonment, and violating a harassment protection order, plus attempts and conspiracies. The sentence moves up one class; for example, a Class I misdemeanor becomes a Class IV felony. Prosecutors must say the enhancement in the charge and prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.
Register and disclose foreign agent work
The law creates a state registration program for people acting for adversary nations or foreign terrorist groups. You must register with the Attorney General within 10 days, update every six months (within 30 days), and report certain changes within 10 days. If you send materials to two or more people, file two copies within 48 hours and include a clear label that they are on behalf of a foreign principal. Keep books and records for three years after you stop being an agent. Say you are registered when you contact state or local officials or when you testify, and your filings are open to the public. Key terms follow federal lists as of April 1, 2025, and include entities 20% or more foreign‑owned. The Attorney General posts a public portal, shares filings with the U.S. Secretary of State, and can share information with other agencies.
Cracking down on transnational repression
It is a Class IIA felony for an agent of a foreign principal to enforce, investigate, or surveil under a foreign law in Nebraska without U.S. law enforcement approval. The State Patrol may publish reports, create training, run a multilingual reporting website, and lead a public awareness campaign. The Patrol may also send the Legislature reports on complaints and outcomes.
Public officials attest no foreign-agent ties
State Statement of Financial Interests forms now include a checkbox where you attest you are not an agent of an adversary nation or a foreign terrorist group. Covered state officials and employees must complete this attestation with their annual filing.
Business filings add compliance attestation
Businesses and nonprofits must add an attestation that they know and follow this foreign‑agent law to their routine state filings. LLCs file it in odd‑year biennial reports; corporations in even years; nonprofits in odd years; LLPs annually; and regulated banks and insurers no more than annually as required. Other entities include it on their annual or biennial Secretary of State report. Unincorporated entities not formed by filing with the Secretary of State are exempt.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Eliot Bostar
Senate
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
legislature vote • 5/30/2025
Final Reading
Yes: 37 • No: 11 • Other: 1
legislature vote • 5/14/2025
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Yes: 18 • No: 23 • Other: 8
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Yes: 29 • No: 4 • Other: 16
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Yes: 25 • No: 0 • Other: 24
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Yes: 32 • No: 1 • Other: 16
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Yes: 12 • No: 19 • Other: 18
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Yes: 31 • No: 1 • Other: 17
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Yes: 9 • No: 30 • Other: 10
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Yes: 32 • No: 1 • Other: 16
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Yes: 30 • No: 2 • Other: 17
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Yes: 10 • No: 27 • Other: 12
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Yes: 1 • No: 30 • Other: 18
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Yes: 1 • No: 30 • Other: 18
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Yes: 12 • No: 19 • Other: 18
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Yes: 18 • No: 23 • Other: 8
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Yes: 31 • No: 1 • Other: 17
Actions Timeline
Approved by Governor on June 4, 2025
6/4/2025legislaturePresented to Governor on May 30, 2025
5/30/2025legislaturePresident/Speaker signed
5/30/2025legislaturePassed on Final Reading 37-11-1
5/30/2025legislatureDispensing of reading at large approved
5/30/2025legislatureEnrollment and Review ST40 recorded
5/19/2025legislatureEnrollment and Review ST40 filed
5/19/2025legislaturePlaced on Final Reading with ST40
5/19/2025legislatureAdvanced to Enrollment and Review for Engrossment
5/14/2025legislatureBostar FA234 adopted
5/14/2025legislatureBostar FA234 filed
5/14/2025legislatureCavanaugh, J. AM1460 withdrawn
5/14/2025legislatureCavanaugh, J. AM1460 filed
5/14/2025legislatureCavanaugh, J. FA233 lost
5/14/2025legislatureCavanaugh, J. FA233 filed
5/14/2025legislatureCavanaugh, M. MO254 withdrawn
5/14/2025legislatureCavanaugh, M. MO254 Reconsider the vote taken on FA230 filed
5/14/2025legislatureDungan FA230 lost
5/14/2025legislatureDungan FA230 filed
5/14/2025legislatureCavanaugh, J. AM1456 withdrawn
5/14/2025legislatureCavanaugh, J. AM1456 filed
5/14/2025legislatureCavanaugh, J. AM1455 adopted
5/14/2025legislatureCavanaugh, J. AM1455 filed
5/14/2025legislatureCavanaugh, J. AM1351 withdrawn
5/14/2025legislatureAndersen AM1205 adopted
5/14/2025legislature
Bill Text
Introduced
1/22/2025
Enrolled / Slip Law
Final / Enacted
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