# Nebraska LB644: 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 Nebraska LB644, 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, is a 109th Legislature 1st and 2nd Sessions legislature bill sponsored by Eliot Bostar; status signed, last action 2025-06-04 (Approved by Governor on June 4, 2025); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-17). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/NE-LB644-109 - As of: 2026-10-17 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Nebraska LB644 - State: Nebraska - Session: 109th Legislature 1st and 2nd Sessions - Title: 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 - Status: signed - Chamber: legislature - Introduced: 2025-01-22 - Last action: 2025-06-04, Approved by Governor on June 4, 2025 - Sponsor: Eliot Bostar - Cosponsors: 0 - Subjects: Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee - Touches household money: yes - Roll calls: 22 (465 yes, 285 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 8 ## Summary No summary available. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - Tougher penalties for foreign agent crimes: benefit, medium. 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, pl… - Campus expulsion for willful violators: cost, high. 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: cost, high. 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… - Tough penalties for foreign agent violations: cost, high. 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 p… - Register and disclose foreign agent work: cost, medium. 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 peo… - Public officials attest no foreign-agent ties: cost, low. 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. - Cracking down on transnational repression: mixed, medium. 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.… - Business filings add compliance attestation: mixed, low. 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… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: Eliot Bostar, Senate ## Roll call votes | Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2025-05-30 | legislature | Final Reading | pass | 37 | 11 | 1 | | 2025-05-14 | legislature | Vote | fail | 18 | 23 | 8 | | 2025-05-14 | legislature | Vote | fail | 29 | 4 | 16 | | 2025-05-14 | legislature | Vote | fail | 25 | 0 | 24 | | 2025-05-14 | legislature | Vote | fail | 32 | 1 | 16 | | 2025-05-14 | legislature | Vote | fail | 12 | 19 | 18 | | 2025-05-08 | legislature | Vote | fail | 31 | 1 | 17 | | 2025-05-08 | legislature | Vote | fail | 9 | 30 | 10 | | 2025-05-08 | legislature | Vote | fail | 32 | 1 | 16 | | 2025-05-08 | legislature | Vote | fail | 30 | 2 | 17 | | 2025-05-08 | legislature | Vote | fail | 10 | 27 | 12 | | 2025-05-08 | legislature | Vote | fail | 1 | 30 | 18 | | | legislature | Vote | fail | 1 | 30 | 18 | | | legislature | Vote | fail | 12 | 19 | 18 | | | legislature | Vote | fail | 18 | 23 | 8 | | | legislature | Vote | fail | 29 | 4 | 16 | | | legislature | Vote | fail | 10 | 27 | 12 | | | legislature | Vote | fail | 25 | 0 | 24 | | | legislature | Vote | fail | 32 | 1 | 16 | | | legislature | Vote | fail | 32 | 1 | 16 | | | legislature | Vote | fail | 9 | 30 | 10 | | | legislature | Vote | fail | 31 | 1 | 17 | ## Actions (72) - 2025-06-04: Approved by Governor on June 4, 2025 (legislature) - 2025-05-30: Presented to Governor on May 30, 2025 (legislature) - 2025-05-30: President/Speaker signed (legislature) - 2025-05-30: Passed on Final Reading 37-11-1 (legislature) - 2025-05-30: Dispensing of reading at large approved (legislature) - 2025-05-19: Enrollment and Review ST40 recorded (legislature) - 2025-05-19: Enrollment and Review ST40 filed (legislature) - 2025-05-19: Placed on Final Reading with ST40 (legislature) - 2025-05-14: Advanced to Enrollment and Review for Engrossment (legislature) - 2025-05-14: Bostar FA234 adopted (legislature) - 2025-05-14: Bostar FA234 filed (legislature) - 2025-05-14: Cavanaugh, J. AM1460 withdrawn (legislature) - 2025-05-14: Cavanaugh, J. AM1460 filed (legislature) - 2025-05-14: Cavanaugh, J. FA233 lost (legislature) - 2025-05-14: Cavanaugh, J. FA233 filed (legislature) - 2025-05-14: Cavanaugh, M. MO254 withdrawn (legislature) - 2025-05-14: Cavanaugh, M. MO254 Reconsider the vote taken on FA230 filed (legislature) - 2025-05-14: Dungan FA230 lost (legislature) - 2025-05-14: Dungan FA230 filed (legislature) - 2025-05-14: Cavanaugh, J. AM1456 withdrawn (legislature) - 2025-05-14: Cavanaugh, J. AM1456 filed (legislature) - 2025-05-14: Cavanaugh, J. AM1455 adopted (legislature) - 2025-05-14: Cavanaugh, J. AM1455 filed (legislature) - 2025-05-14: Cavanaugh, J. AM1351 withdrawn (legislature) - 2025-05-14: Andersen AM1205 adopted (legislature) - 2025-05-14: Bostar AM1208 withdrawn (legislature) - 2025-05-14: Conrad FA142 withdrawn (legislature) - 2025-05-14: McKinney MO202 withdrawn (legislature) - 2025-05-14: McKinney MO201 withdrawn (legislature) - 2025-05-14: Enrollment and Review ER80 adopted (legislature) - 2025-05-13: Enrollment and Review ER80 filed (legislature) - 2025-05-13: Placed on Select File with ER80 (legislature) - 2025-05-12: Cavanaugh, J. AM1351 filed (legislature) - 2025-05-09: Andersen AM1205 refiled (legislature) - 2025-05-08: Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial (legislature) - 2025-05-08: Conrad FA140 withdrawn (legislature) - 2025-05-08: Conrad FA139 withdrawn (legislature) - 2025-05-08: Conrad FA138 withdrawn (legislature) - 2025-05-08: Government, Military and Veterans Affairs AM959 adopted (legislature) - 2025-05-08: Dungan FA199 lost (legislature) - 2025-05-08: Dungan FA199 to AM959 filed (legislature) - 2025-05-08: Andersen AM1205 withdrawn (legislature) - 2025-05-08: Bostar AM1272 adopted (legislature) - 2025-05-08: Bostar AM1199 withdrawn (legislature) - 2025-05-08: No objections to unanimous consent to withdraw and substitute amendment (legislature) - 2025-05-08: Conrad AM1306 lost (legislature) - 2025-05-08: Conrad FA141 withdrawn (legislature) - 2025-05-08: No objections to unanimous consent to withdraw and substitute amendment (legislature) - 2025-05-08: Cavanaugh, M. MO237 withdrawn (legislature) - 2025-05-08: Cavanaugh, M. MO237 Reconsider the vote taken on MO200 filed (legislature) - 2025-05-08: McKinney MO200 failed (legislature) - 2025-05-08: McKinney MO200 pending (legislature) - 2025-05-07: Conrad AM1306 to AM959 filed (legislature) - 2025-05-07: Bostar AM1272 to AM959 filed (legislature) - 2025-04-29: Andersen AM1205 to AM959 filed (legislature) - 2025-04-28: Bostar AM1208 to AM959 filed (legislature) - 2025-04-28: Bostar AM1199 to AM959 filed (legislature) - 2025-04-28: Conrad FA142 filed (legislature) - 2025-04-28: Conrad FA141 to AM959 filed (legislature) - 2025-04-28: Conrad FA140 filed (legislature) - 2025-04-28: Conrad FA139 filed (legislature) - 2025-04-28: Conrad FA138 filed (legislature) - 2025-04-24: McKinney MO202 Recommit to the Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee filed (legislature) - 2025-04-24: McKinney MO201 Bracket until June 9, 2025 filed (legislature) - 2025-04-24: McKinney MO200 Indefinitely postpone pursuant to Rule 6, Sec. 3(f) filed (legislature) - 2025-04-24: Government, Military and Veterans Affairs AM959 filed (legislature) - 2025-04-24: Placed on General File with AM959 (legislature) - 2025-03-14: Bostar priority bill (legislature) - 2025-02-21: Sanders name added (legislature) - 2025-02-11: Notice of hearing for February 19, 2025 (legislature) - 2025-01-24: Referred to Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee (legislature) - 2025-01-22: Date of introduction (legislature) ## Bill text - Introduced, 2025-01-22: [PDF](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/Intro/LB644.pdf) - Enrolled / Slip Law: [PDF](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/Slip/LB644.pdf) - Final / Enacted: [PDF](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/Final/LB644.pdf) ## Related bills - LB468: Change provisions relating to inheritance taxes, change certain fee and tax provisions, and eliminate a sales tax exemption relating to data centers (failed) - LB13: Require the Department of Health and Human Services to file a state plan amendment relating to child care (failed) - LB677: Change provisions of the Nebraska Medical Cannabis Regulation Act and provide for regulation of medical cannabis (failed) - LB646: Provide an exemption from brand inspections and change fees under the Livestock Brand Act (failed) - LB170: Eliminate the sales tax exemptions for candy and soft drinks (failed) - LB714: Change provisions relating to motor vehicle taxes and fees (failed) ## Sources - [Introduced (PDF)](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/Intro/LB644.pdf) - [Enrolled / Slip Law (PDF)](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/Slip/LB644.pdf) - [Final / Enacted (PDF)](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/Final/LB644.pdf) ## Related - [LB468: Change provisions relating to inheritance taxes, change certain fee and tax pro…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/NE-LB468-109) - [LB13: Require the Department of Health and Human Services to file a state plan amendm…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/NE-LB13-109) - [LB677: Change provisions of the Nebraska Medical Cannabis Regulation Act and provide f…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/NE-LB677-109) - [LB646: Provide an exemption from brand inspections and change fees under the Livestock…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/NE-LB646-109) - [LB170: Eliminate the sales tax exemptions for candy and soft drinks](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/NE-LB170-109) - [LB714: Change provisions relating to motor vehicle taxes and fees](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/NE-LB714-109) - [Nebraska bills](https://policyrisk.com/states/nebraska/bills) - [Nebraska state hub](https://policyrisk.com/states/nebraska) - [All state legislation](https://policyrisk.com/state-bills) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/NE-LB644-109 (as of 2026-10-17).