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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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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

3 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 2 mixed.

Confidential peer support for public safety staff

Public safety agencies may create peer support teams and must write rules. Team members need at least 24 hours of training and official designation. Talks during peer support and related records are confidential, not public records, and generally not allowed in court or discovery. Disclosure is allowed only with written consent (including by a surviving spouse or personal representative), to prevent imminent harm, for required child or vulnerable‑adult abuse reports, for information about a crime, or for a narrow defense if a member is sued by the recipient. Recipients cannot be forced to testify about these talks without consent. Team members are immune from lawsuits for those safety or required reports, and information from other sources stays usable.

New rules for emergency mental-health holds

A mental health professional may briefly hold a person and call law enforcement when there is probable cause of danger. People in emergency protective custody who are not convicted sex offenders must go to an appropriate medical facility. Under a pilot, they may be held in a jail mental‑health bed until a medical bed opens. If there is a medical or psychiatric emergency, they stay in the hospital until it is safe to move. A qualified mental health professional must evaluate them within 36 hours, by video if all agree, and the evaluator must be independent. They must be released after the evaluation unless the evaluator finds they are mentally ill and dangerous or a dangerous sex offender. The law replaces older sections to match these rules.

Tribal roles in emergency custody and costs

Officers can take into emergency custody a person who lives in Indian country in Nebraska when tribal law treats the person as mentally ill and dangerous or a dangerous sex offender, and similar imminent harm is likely before tribal action can start. When custody is under tribal law, the officer must use the tribe’s format and send it to the tribal prosecutor right away. If custody starts under tribal law, the tribe must arrange placement and pay the costs for its members; counties pay when the county starts the case. The Sex Offender Commitment Act now also covers people in tribal proceedings if they are tribal members living in Indian country; it still excludes people under 18 unless emancipated.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Tanya Storer

    legislature

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 270 • No: 6

legislature vote • 4/24/2026

Vote

Yes: 28 • No: 0 • Other: 21

legislature vote • 4/24/2026

Vote

Yes: 35 • No: 1 • Other: 13

legislature vote • 4/24/2026

Vote

Yes: 34 • No: 2 • Other: 13

legislature vote • 4/1/2026

Final Reading

Yes: 48 • No: 0 • Other: 1

legislature vote • 3/6/2026

Vote

Yes: 34 • No: 2 • Other: 13

legislature vote • 3/6/2026

Vote

Yes: 35 • No: 1 • 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

Actions Timeline

  1. Approved by Governor on April 7, 2026

    4/7/2026legislature

  2. Dispensing of reading at large approved

    4/1/2026legislature

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

    4/1/2026legislature

  4. President/Speaker signed

    4/1/2026legislature

  5. Presented to Governor on April 1, 2026

    4/1/2026legislature

  6. Placed on Final Reading with ST61

    3/17/2026legislature

  7. Enrollment and Review ST61 filed

    3/17/2026legislature

  8. Enrollment and Review ST61 recorded

    3/17/2026legislature

  9. Kauth FA445 withdrawn

    3/6/2026legislature

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

    3/6/2026legislature

  11. Storer MO498 prevailed

    3/6/2026legislature

  12. Storer AM2323 adopted

    3/6/2026legislature

  13. Advanced to Enrollment and Review for Engrossment

    3/6/2026legislature

  14. Storer AM2323 filed

    2/26/2026legislature

  15. Placed on Select File

    2/23/2026legislature

  16. Judiciary AM1814 adopted

    2/11/2026legislature

  17. Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial

    2/11/2026legislature

  18. Placed on General File with AM1814

    2/2/2026legislature

  19. Judiciary AM1814 filed

    2/2/2026legislature

  20. Notice of hearing for January 22, 2026

    1/14/2026legislature

  21. Referred to Judiciary Committee

    1/9/2026legislature

  22. Wordekemper name added

    1/9/2026legislature

  23. Kauth FA445 filed

    1/8/2026legislature

  24. Date of introduction

    1/7/2026legislature

Bill Text

  • Introduced

    4/7/2026

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  • Enrolled / Slip Law

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  • Final / Enacted

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