Nebraska LB596: Change requirements for legal publications and notices required by law, provisions of the Open Meetings Act, county inventories, warrants, and discharge records, storage requirements for certain records, petitions to change names, marriage license and record fees, reports of abandoned property, and the Nebraska Hall of Fame and eliminate a penalty for certain public officials and provisions relating to the registration of farm, ranch, or home names

What the bill says

A bill FOR AN ACT relating to government; to amend sections 23-346.01, 23-1303, 23-1309, 23-1517.01, 23-1527, 25-523, 33-110, 72-728, 84-1208, and 84-1412, Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska, sections 25-21,271, 25-2228, 33-141, and 77-3903, Revised Statutes Cumulative Supplement, 2024, and sections 69-1311 and 84-1411, Revised Statutes Supplement, 2025; to change provisions relating to county inventories, warrants, and discharge records; to provide for storing records on an accessible durable medium; to define terms…

From the enrolled text:

A BILL FOR AN ACT relating to government; to amend sections 23-346.01, 23-1303, 23-1309, 23-1517.01, 23-1527, 25-523, 33-110, 72-728, 84-1208, and 84-1412, Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska, sections 25-21,271, 25-2228, 33-141, and 77-3903, Revised Statutes Cumulative Supplement, 2024, and sections 69-1311 and 84-1411, Revised Statutes Supplement, 2025; to change provisions relating to county inventories, warrants, and discharge records; to provide for storing records on an accessible durable medium; to define terms; to change provisions relating to the publication of legal newspapers, legal notices, petitions to change names, marriage license and record fees, reports of abandoned property, and virtual conferencing and notice requirements for meetings of public bodies under the Open Meetings Act; to change provisions relating to the Nebraska Hall of Fame; to eliminate a penalty for certain public officials; to eliminate provisions relating to the registration of farm, ranch, or home names; to harmonize provisions; to provide severability; to repeal the original sections; and to outright repeal sections 19-1104 and 23-1313, Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska. Section 1. Section 23-346.01, Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska, is amended to read: 23-346.01 In It shall be the duty of the county clerk, in all counties having a population of one hundred fifty thousand or more inhabitants as determined by the most recent federal decennial census, on or before December 1, annually, …