Nebraska legislation · 109th Legislature
Nebraska LR500: Recognize and commend Hot Meals for its rapid and sustained volunteer disaster response during the 2026 Nebraska wildfire emerge
Status: Passed both chambers, April 17, 2026
Recognize and commend Hot Meals for its rapid and sustained volunteer disaster response during the 2026 Nebraska wildfire emergency
What the bill says
From the introduced text:
LR500 LR500 2026 2026 ONE HUNDRED NINTH LEGISLATURE SECOND SESSION LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION 500 Introduced by Clouse, 37; DeKay, 40; Dorn, 30; Dover, 19; Ibach, 44; Jacobson, 42; Prokop, 27; Quick, 35; Riepe, 12; Sanders, 45; Storer, 43; Storm, 23; Strommen, 47; Wordekemper, 15. WHEREAS, western Nebraska experienced a significant wildfire emergency in the spring of 2026, requiring the sustained deployment of firefighters and emergency personnel; and WHEREAS, Hot Meals, a volunteer-driven disaster response organization, mobilized swiftly and began delivering food to firefighters in Oshkosh on March 13, 2026, with meals prepared in Kearney and transported by dedicated volunteers; and WHEREAS, Hot Meals established its mobile disaster response kitchen at the Lincoln County Fairgrounds in North Platte on March 17, 2026, and served its first hot dinner that very evening under an open-air pavilion; and WHEREAS, Hot Meals served two hot meals and a sack lunch daily at the North Platte fire camp for two full weeks, simultaneously making twice-daily meal deliveries to firefighters in Ogallala during that same period; and WHEREAS, Hot Meals subsequently relocated its kitchen to the Keith County Fairgrounds in Ogallala to integrate directly with the Incident Command Post and continue uninterrupted food service to emergency personnel; and WHEREAS, the communities of North Platte and Ogallala responded with extraordinary generosity, with more than four hundred individual volunteers …
Sponsors
- Stanley Clouse (NP, 37) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : President/Speaker signed
- : Adopted
- : Laid over
- : Date of introduction
Common questions
- What is LR500?
- LR500 is a bill in the Nebraska Legislature (109th Legislature): Recognize and commend Hot Meals for its rapid and sustained volunteer disaster response during the 2026 Nebraska wildfire emerge.
- What does LR500 do?
- Recognize and commend Hot Meals for its rapid and sustained volunteer disaster response during the 2026 Nebraska wildfire emergency
- What is the status of LR500?
- Passed both chambers as of April 17, 2026. Latest action: President/Speaker signed (April 17, 2026).
- Who sponsored LR500?
- Stanley Clouse (NP, 37).
- Where is the official record for LR500?
- On the Nebraska Legislature website: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/bills/view_bill.php?DocumentID=66344
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