ONE HUNDRED NINTH LEGISLATURE - FIRST SESSION - 2025
COMMITTEE STATEMENT
LB58
Hearing Date: Wednesday January 22, 2025
Committee On: Government, Military and Veterans Affairs
Introducer: Sanders
One Liner: Eliminate provisions relating to jeweler’s liens
Roll Call Vote - Final Committee Action:
Advanced to General File
Vote Results:
Aye: 8 Senators Andersen, Cavanaugh, J., Guereca, Hunt, Lonowski,
McKeon, Sanders, Wordekemper
Nay:
Absent:
Present Not Voting:
Testimony:
Proponents: Representing:
Senator Rita Sanders Opening Presenter
Beth Bazyn Ferrell Nebraska Association of County Officials (NACO)
Opponents: Representing:
Neutral: Representing:
* ADA Accommodation Written Testimony
Summary of purpose and/or changes:
This bill eliminates four sections of statute relating to a jeweler's liens. Current law provides for this process that
allows jewelers, silversmiths, and watch and clock repairers to impose a lien on unclaimed property on which work
was performed but for which no payment has been made after one year. Under existing law, the property would
subsequently be sold, with any sum in excess of the amount owed remitted to the county for eventual return to the
original owner.
Rita Sanders, Chairperson
Committee Statement: LB58
Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee
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