ONE HUNDRED NINTH LEGISLATURE - FIRST SESSION - 2025
COMMITTEE STATEMENT
LB399
Hearing Date: Thursday February 20, 2025
Committee On: Revenue
Introducer: Wordekemper
One Liner: Change provisions relating to property tax rates and qualifications for certain distributions under
the Mutual Finance Assistance Act
Roll Call Vote - Final Committee Action:
Advanced to General File
Vote Results:
Aye: 8 Senators Bostar, Dungan, Ibach, Jacobson, Kauth, Murman,
Sorrentino, von Gillern
Nay:
Absent:
Present Not Voting:
Testimony:
Proponents: Representing:
Senator Dave Wordekemper Opening Presenter
Kevin Edwards Millard and Papillion Fire Districts
Jerry Stilmock Nebraska State Volunteer Firefighters Association,
Nebraska Fire Chiefs Association
Opponents: Representing:
Neutral: Representing:
* ADA Accommodation Written Testimony
Summary of purpose and/or changes:
LB 399 amends the Mutual Finance Assistance Act. The bill amends Neb. Rev. Stat. §35-1204 to eliminate obsolete
language relating to passage of LB 1130 in 2020. The bill also amends Neb. Rev. Stat. § 35-1205 to reduce the
amount of the assumed county population required for a rural or suburban fire protection district or a mutual finance
organization to receive a distribution from the Mutual Finance Assistance Fund from at least eighty percent (80%) of
such assumed county population to at least sixty percent (60%) of such assumed county population.
LB 399 has an operative date of October 1, 2025.
Committee Statement: LB399
Revenue Committee
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R. Brad von Gillern, Chairperson
Committee Statement: LB399
Revenue Committee
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