LB 209 Legislature · 109th Legislature (2025-2026)

Change provisions relating to homestead exemptions for certain veterans and a property tax exemption for certain facilities

Nebraska's LB 209 expands property tax exemptions for veterans and their surviving spouses by modifying homestead exemption rules. It also creates a new property tax break for for-profit skilled nursing, nursing, and assisted-living facilities that serve Medicaid beneficiaries. The tax exemption amount for these facilities equals the average percentage of occupied Medicaid beds over the previous three years. This change specifically applies to for-profit facilities - nonprofit facilities serving Medicaid already have separate, full exemptions under current law.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2025
Committee Review
Jan 2025
Legislature Passage
Feb 2025
Legislature Passage
Feb 2025
Signed into Law
Feb 2025
Introduced Jan 14, 2025 Signed Feb 26, 2025
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What changed between versions

Introduced Final Reading · 1 edit
MINOR
The bill text shows minor formatting and line break changes rather than substantive policy modifications. The core legislative content regarding federally reinsured student loans and nonprofit organizations remains unchanged.
TECHNICAL

Removed a line break between items in a list describing eligible organizations (museum/historical society and nonprofit organization), which appears to be a formatting correction rather than a policy change.

Floor votes · Legislature Feb 21, 2025

How they voted

470
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 49
Feb 21, 2025
N Nonpartisan49
47 Yea 2
95% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
13
Key actions
4
Committee
2
Feb 26, 2025
Signed into law
Approved by Governor on February 25, 2025
executive
Feb 21, 2025
Legislature · Passed
President/Speaker signed
legislature
Feb 21, 2025
Legislature · Passed
Passed on Final Reading with Emergency Clause 47-0-2
legislature
Jan 24, 2025
Legislature · Passed
Placed on General File
legislature
Jan 16, 2025
Committee
Referred to Revenue Committee
legislature
Jan 14, 2025
Introduced
Date of introduction
legislature
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

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Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Photo of Brad von Gillern
Brad von Gillern
NNonpartisan
NE
4