R. Brad von Gillern

Voted for Legislative Bill 929, which would have let Medicaid managed care companies pay a patient's copay for them. Nebraska's Medicaid program may charge patients premiums, copays and deductibles. The bill would not have changed that power. It would have required the state to let a managed care company pay a patient's deductible, copay, coinsurance or similar charge on the patient's behalf, where federal law allows it. An earlier draft would have banned most of those charges outright and delayed the rest to October 2028. That part was removed before the final vote. The Nebraska Legislature passed it 31-18, the Governor vetoed it, and the vote to override the veto failed 22 to 26, so it did not become law.

April 10, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for Legislative Bill 203, which limits what a local health department can order on its own. A community-wide directed health measure now needs written approval from elected officials before the health director may issue it. For most departments that means a majority of the county board. For a city-county department it means a majority of the city council. In a city-county department serving a county of more than 200,000 people, it means the elected county board and city council members who sit on its board of health. The order then goes to the board of health to be ratified at a meeting. It expires after seven days unless it is approved again. The act defines a community-wide measure as a public health action covering everyone in the department's area when there is no known epidemiological link. An epidemiological link means someone may have been exposed to a disease in a way that disease is known to spread. So an order aimed at people tied to a known chain of infection is untouched. The Nebraska Legislature passed it 35-12, and it became law.

February 12, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Legislative Bill 258, which slows future minimum wage increases and adds two lower wage rates. Nebraska's minimum wage reached fifteen dollars an hour in 2026. Under the law voters passed in 2022, it would then rise each year with the cost of living. That rise was tied to a federal price index. The act drops that link. From 2027 the wage goes up by a fixed one and three-quarters percent a year. The act also adds a youth minimum wage of thirteen dollars and fifty cents an hour. It covers workers who are at least fourteen, are under sixteen, and are not emancipated minors. That youth rate goes up one and one-half percent every fifth year, starting in 2030. The act rewrites the training wage too. An employer may pay that wage to a new worker for ninety days. It now covers new workers who are at least sixteen and under twenty. The act sets it at thirteen dollars and fifty cents an hour, rising one and one-half percent a year from 2027. Before the act, the training wage was seventy-five percent of the federal minimum wage. The Nebraska Legislature passed it 33-16, and it became law.

February 5, 2026Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted for Legislative Bill 397, which ends the workplace safety committee rule for private employers. Since 1994 every employer covered by the workers' compensation law had to have a safety committee. The committee wrote and kept up a plan for preventing injuries at that workplace. The act keeps that duty for public employers and drops it for private ones. It also removes going without a committee as a reason an insurer may cancel a policy, or refuse to renew one. The state program that advised employers on workplace safety is repealed. Its fund is closed, and the money left in it goes to the state's general fund. The Nebraska Legislature passed it 35-13, and it became law.

February 20, 2026Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted for Legislative Bill 258, which slows future minimum wage increases and adds two lower wage rates. Nebraska's minimum wage reached fifteen dollars an hour in 2026. Under the law voters passed in 2022, it would then rise each year with the cost of living. That rise was tied to a federal price index. The act drops that link. From 2027 the wage goes up by a fixed one and three-quarters percent a year. The act also adds a youth minimum wage of thirteen dollars and fifty cents an hour. It covers workers who are at least fourteen, are under sixteen, and are not emancipated minors. That youth rate goes up one and one-half percent every fifth year, starting in 2030. The act rewrites the training wage too. An employer may pay that wage to a new worker for ninety days. It now covers new workers who are at least sixteen and under twenty. The act sets it at thirteen dollars and fifty cents an hour, rising one and one-half percent a year from 2027. Before the act, the training wage was seventy-five percent of the federal minimum wage. The Nebraska Legislature passed it 33-16, and it became law.

February 5, 2026Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted for Legislative Bill 415, which narrows the paid sick leave law Nebraska voters approved in 2024. That law lets a worker earn paid time off to use when they are sick. The act takes several groups out of it. Independent contractors, owner-operators, and farm workers in seasonal or temporary jobs no longer count as employees. Neither does anyone under sixteen. Only an employer with eleven or more workers is now covered, where the old rule started at one. A worker must put in eighty hours with the same employer before paid sick time starts to build up. The act removes the worker's right to sue an employer over a violation, and the four-year deadline that went with that right. An employer whose own paid leave policy already meets the standard owes nothing further. Unused paid sick time does not have to be paid out when a job ends. The act separately lets the state take unemployment overpayments out of a person's gambling winnings, the way it already collects unpaid taxes that way. It also rewrites the state's rules for licensing elevator mechanics and contractors. The Nebraska Legislature passed it 33-16, and it became law.

May 28, 2025Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted for Legislative Bill 229, which takes app-based gig workers out of Nebraska's unemployment system. The Employment Security Law funds and pays unemployment benefits. The act adds these workers to the list of people whose work does not count as employment under it. It covers a person who signs up through a company's app to be matched with customers. The person must be paid for that work and must not work at a site the company runs. Four things have to be true for the exclusion to apply. The worker and the company must agree in writing that the worker is an independent contractor. The company must not set the hours the worker has to be free. It must not stop the worker taking other work, except while they are on its jobs. And it must not be able to end the contract because the worker turned a job down. The exclusion does not apply where federal law requires the work to be covered. The Nebraska Legislature passed it 33-15, and it became law.

March 10, 2025Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted for Legislative Bill 795, which raises the penalties for dealing in fentanyl and bans a new synthetic drug. The act adds bromazolam, a lab-made sedative, to Schedule I, the list of drugs Nebraska treats as having no accepted medical use. It also sets penalties for handling fentanyl that rise with the amount. One hundred forty grams or more is a Class IB felony. At least twenty-eight grams but less than one hundred forty is a Class IC felony. At least ten grams but less than twenty-eight is a Class ID felony. The act corrects the spelling of several drug names in the same list. The Nebraska Legislature passed it 32-14, and it became law.

February 27, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for Legislative Bill 48, which sets up a center to keep young people out of the justice system. The Department of Health and Human Services must run a five-year pilot program. It runs in cities of the metropolitan class, which in Nebraska means Omaha. The center must be open twenty-four hours a day, every day. It has to be built with local community groups. It also has to be built with advisers who speak for young people and families the juvenile justice system has touched. The center offers support, assessment and help to young people in that system. It serves those at risk of entering it too. Its stated aim is to deal with what lies behind youth offending. That means family problems, mental health, substance abuse and trouble at school. The program ends five years after the act takes effect. The Nebraska Legislature passed it 27-21, and it became law.

May 30, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for Legislative Bill 1067, which raises a tax on property sales to pay for workforce housing. Nebraska charges a documentary stamp tax when the deed to a property changes hands. The act raises it by one dollar for each thousand dollars of value. The rate goes from two dollars and thirty-two cents to three dollars and thirty-two cents. It returns to the old rate for sales on or after January 1, 2032. Fifty cents of the extra dollar goes to the Rural Workforce Housing Investment Fund. The other fifty cents goes to the Middle Income Workforce Housing Investment Fund. The act also stops money being moved out of the Affordable Housing Trust Fund from July 1, 2027. What that fund collects stays in it. The Nebraska Legislature passed it 36-13, and it became law.

April 9, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted for Legislative Bill 266, which bars local governments from limiting rents. A city, village or county may not pass or enforce a local law that has the effect of rent control on private property. Any such law is void. The ban applies even where a city has its own home rule charter. Two things are still allowed. A local government may still use land-use rules or inclusionary housing rules that it adopts to add affordable housing. It may also run a program that a property owner joins by choice, under a contract that limits rent and rent increases. The Nebraska Legislature passed it 37-10, and it became law.

April 3, 2025Opposes Housing Affordability

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Voted for Legislative Bill 966, which pays for school meals for students who now pay a reduced price. The act sets up the Hunger-Free Schools Pilot Program for the school years 2026-27 through 2031-32. A school may apply if it is already in the federal breakfast or lunch programs and does not already feed every student for free under the federal community eligibility option. The State Department of Education picks which of those schools take part. A school in the program serves breakfast or lunch at no cost to any student who qualifies for a reduced-price meal. It then reports how many of those meals it served. The state pays the school the gap between the federal payment for a free meal and the payment for a reduced-price meal. The act sets aside about 1.2 million dollars a year for the first two years. It replaces an older state payment of five cents for each school breakfast. The department must study how the program affects students and report by December 2032. The Nebraska Legislature passed it 38-11, and it became law.

April 10, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for Legislative Bill 275, which protects the Social Security money of children in state care. The state must check every child in its charge for Social Security within sixty days. It must apply for the benefits, and appeal a denial where that is in the child's interest. It must tell the child, in words suited to their age, about each decision within ten days. It must tell the child's lawyer and parents too. It must also tell them that an adult the child knows can ask to receive the money instead. When the state does receive the money, it must hold it in a separate trust account for that child. It must keep the money below the federal limits that would cost the child other benefits. It must account for every dollar to the juvenile court at each review hearing. The state may still use some of the money to repay itself for the cost of the child's care. But the act sets a share it may not touch. That share is twenty percent at age fourteen and thirty percent at sixteen. It is forty percent at seventeen and half at eighteen. A child of fourteen or older must be asked every six months what they need. They may also ask the juvenile court to have the money used a different way. The Nebraska Legislature passed it 29-19, and it became law.

May 30, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for Legislative Bill 415, which narrows the paid sick leave law Nebraska voters approved in 2024. That law lets a worker earn paid time off to use when they are sick. The act takes several groups out of it. Independent contractors, owner-operators, and farm workers in seasonal or temporary jobs no longer count as employees. Neither does anyone under sixteen. Only an employer with eleven or more workers is now covered, where the old rule started at one. A worker must put in eighty hours with the same employer before paid sick time starts to build up. The act removes the worker's right to sue an employer over a violation, and the four-year deadline that went with that right. An employer whose own paid leave policy already meets the standard owes nothing further. Unused paid sick time does not have to be paid out when a job ends. The act separately lets the state take unemployment overpayments out of a person's gambling winnings, the way it already collects unpaid taxes that way. It also rewrites the state's rules for licensing elevator mechanics and contractors. The Nebraska Legislature passed it 33-16, and it became law.

May 28, 2025Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for Legislative Bill 319, which would have restored food assistance to most people with drug felony convictions. Federal law bars anyone convicted of a drug felony from food assistance for life, and lets a state opt out. Nebraska has opted out only part way. Today a person with one or two convictions for possessing or using drugs can get help if they are in, or have finished, a treatment program. A person with three or more, or with any conviction for selling drugs, gets nothing. The bill would have opened the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to anyone with a drug felony once they had finished their sentence. They would also have been eligible while on parole, probation or post-release supervision. One condition would have stayed. A person with three or more convictions for possessing or using drugs would still have needed to be in, or have finished, a licensed treatment program. A licensed health care provider could have waived that by finding the person did not need treatment. The Nebraska Legislature passed it 32-17, the Governor vetoed it, and the vote to override the veto failed 24 to 24, so it did not become law.

May 14, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for Legislative Bill 229, which takes app-based gig workers out of Nebraska's unemployment system. The Employment Security Law funds and pays unemployment benefits. The act adds these workers to the list of people whose work does not count as employment under it. It covers a person who signs up through a company's app to be matched with customers. The person must be paid for that work and must not work at a site the company runs. Four things have to be true for the exclusion to apply. The worker and the company must agree in writing that the worker is an independent contractor. The company must not set the hours the worker has to be free. It must not stop the worker taking other work, except while they are on its jobs. And it must not be able to end the contract because the worker turned a job down. The exclusion does not apply where federal law requires the work to be covered. The Nebraska Legislature passed it 33-15, and it became law.

March 10, 2025Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for Legislative Bill 89, which limits school and college sports teams by sex. Every covered team must be labeled for males, for females, or as coed. A team for females is closed to male students. A team for males is closed to female students, unless no female team is offered in that sport. To play on a team labeled by sex, a student must hand the school a paper signed by a doctor. It has to confirm the student's sex. The act defines male and female by the reproductive system a person naturally has, or would have had. It also shields a school that keeps separate teams for female students. No government body, licensing group or sports association may look into or punish such a school for keeping those teams. The rules cover public schools and colleges. They also cover private ones that play against them or belong to a sports association. The Nebraska Legislature passed it 33-16, and it became law.

May 28, 2025Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted for Legislative Bill 397, which ends the workplace safety committee rule for private employers. Since 1994 every employer covered by the workers' compensation law had to have a safety committee. The committee wrote and kept up a plan for preventing injuries at that workplace. The act keeps that duty for public employers and drops it for private ones. It also removes going without a committee as a reason an insurer may cancel a policy, or refuse to renew one. The state program that advised employers on workplace safety is repealed. Its fund is closed, and the money left in it goes to the state's general fund. The Nebraska Legislature passed it 35-13, and it became law.

February 20, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability

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Voted for Legislative Bill 241, which shields companies from class action lawsuits over data breaches. A business cannot be held liable in a class action over a cybersecurity event. The one exception is where the business was willfully, wantonly or grossly negligent. Ordinary carelessness is no longer enough. A cybersecurity event means someone gets into a computer system without permission. It also covers disrupting or misusing that system, or the private data kept on it. Private data here means information that can identify a person. It has to be paired with a Social Security number, a license or state ID number, a bank or card number, a password or access code, or a biometric record. The shield covers businesses run for profit and not for profit alike. Religious and charitable groups are covered too. The Nebraska Legislature passed it 36-10, and it became law.

March 13, 2025Opposes Corporate Accountability

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Introduced LB650, a bill addressing community development assistance, land banks, property-tax exemptions, sales-tax collection fees, and tax credits; the governor approved it on May 6, 2025.

May 6, 2025

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Voted yes on final reading of LB650, the Community Development Assistance Act and related revenue-and-taxation changes; the final-reading vote passed 40-7-2.

April 30, 2025

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Voted against Legislative Bill 1029, which would have narrowed what public colleges must report about money from hostile foreign governments. Nebraska law makes a public college report funding and contracts it gets from a foreign adversarial source. The bill would have counted a contract only where it benefits that foreign source. It would also have taken salary, wages and other pay out of what has to be reported at all. Less of the money coming from those sources would have been disclosed. The Nebraska Legislature passed it 29-20, the Governor vetoed it, the Legislature did not vote to override, and it did not become law.

April 10, 2026

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