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NebraskaLB816109th Legislature 1st and 2nd Sessionslegislature

Provide privileges and immunities relating to peer support services communications by public safety personnel and change provisions relating to emergency protective custody

Sponsored By: Tanya Storer

Signed by Governor

Judiciary Committee

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4 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 1 costs, 1 mixed.

Private peer support for public safety staff

Public safety agencies can set up peer support teams and must write rules for how they work. Team members must complete at least 24 hours of training and be officially named by the agency head. Peer support talks, team communications, and related records are private. They are not public records, cannot be discovered, and are not admissible in court. Sharing is allowed with written consent, to prevent an immediate safety threat, for required reports of child or vulnerable adult abuse, or when a peer is a defendant and the court needs the information. Peers are not liable for these allowed disclosures, and recipients cannot be forced to testify about these talks without consent.

Faster checks after emergency mental health holds

When someone is admitted after an emergency hold, the officer must file a Health and Human Services certificate and send it to the county attorney right away. The facility or jail must get a mental health evaluation as soon as possible and within 36 hours. The evaluator cannot be the person who caused the hold or a member of the mental health board for the case. If all agree, the evaluation can be done by video. For holds under tribal law of someone living in Indian country, the officer must use tribe-provided paperwork and send it at once to the tribal prosecutor or official. The evaluator must tell the tribal prosecutor or official when the person is released.

Local governments must pay EPC costs

Each county must arrange placements with appropriate facilities, inside or outside the county, and pay the costs for people from that county. For emergency holds under tribal law of people living in Indian country, the tribe must arrange placements and pay the costs for people from that tribe.

Where people go after emergency custody

After an emergency hold, a person who is not a convicted sex offender goes to an appropriate medical facility. If no medical bed is open, they can be held in a jail or another site with a mental health bed under the Regional Mental Health Expansion Pilot Program Act until a medical bed is ready. A convicted sex offender goes to a jail or a Department of Correctional Services facility unless a medical or psychiatric emergency requires hospital care.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Tanya Storer

    Senate

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 270 • No: 6

legislature vote • 4/1/2026

Final Reading

Yes: 48 • No: 0 • Other: 1

legislature vote • 3/6/2026

Vote

Yes: 35 • No: 1 • Other: 13

legislature vote • 3/6/2026

Vote

Yes: 34 • No: 2 • Other: 13

legislature vote • 2/11/2026

Vote

Yes: 28 • No: 0 • Other: 21

legislature vote • 2/11/2026

Vote

Yes: 28 • No: 0 • Other: 21

legislature vote • Unknown

Vote

Yes: 34 • No: 2 • Other: 13

legislature vote • Unknown

Vote

Yes: 28 • No: 0 • Other: 21

legislature vote • Unknown

Vote

Yes: 35 • No: 1 • Other: 13

Actions Timeline

  1. Provisions/portions of LB1084 amended into LB816 by AM2323

    4/17/2026legislature

  2. Provisions/portions of LB755 amended into LB816 by AM1814

    4/17/2026legislature

  3. Approved by Governor on April 7, 2026

    4/7/2026legislature

  4. Presented to Governor on April 1, 2026

    4/1/2026legislature

  5. President/Speaker signed

    4/1/2026legislature

  6. Passed on Final Reading with Emergency Clause 48-0-1

    4/1/2026legislature

  7. Dispensing of reading at large approved

    4/1/2026legislature

  8. Enrollment and Review ST61 recorded

    3/17/2026legislature

  9. Enrollment and Review ST61 filed

    3/17/2026legislature

  10. Placed on Final Reading with ST61

    3/17/2026legislature

  11. Advanced to Enrollment and Review for Engrossment

    3/6/2026legislature

  12. Storer AM2323 adopted

    3/6/2026legislature

  13. Storer MO498 prevailed

    3/6/2026legislature

  14. Storer MO498 Suspend Rule 7, Section 3(d) to permit consideration of AM2323 filed

    3/6/2026legislature

  15. Point of order on germaneness of AM2323 not considered

    3/6/2026legislature

  16. Kauth FA445 withdrawn

    3/6/2026legislature

  17. Storer AM2323 filed

    2/26/2026legislature

  18. Placed on Select File

    2/23/2026legislature

  19. Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial

    2/11/2026legislature

  20. Judiciary AM1814 adopted

    2/11/2026legislature

  21. Judiciary AM1814 filed

    2/2/2026legislature

  22. Placed on General File with AM1814

    2/2/2026legislature

  23. Notice of hearing for January 22, 2026

    1/14/2026legislature

  24. Wordekemper name added

    1/9/2026legislature

  25. Referred to Judiciary Committee

    1/9/2026legislature

Bill Text

  • Introduced

    1/7/2026

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  • Enrolled / Slip Law

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  • Final / Enacted

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