Indefinitely postponed
Appropriate funds for the Nebraska Statewide Workforce and Education Reporting System Act ↗
| Sponsor | Sen. Jana Hughes (District 24) (Introduced 01/09/2025) |
|---|---|
| Sponsor Ranking | The Nebraska Legislature is officially nonpartisan, and no published ideology measurement of its members is in our database - so none is shown. This page shows how members voted, never where anyone places them. |
| KJV verdict | NEITHER · 0 grounds ↓ |
| Committees | Appropriations |
| Latest Action | 04/17/2026 Indefinitely postponed |
| Roll Call Votes | There have been no roll call votes |
| Source | view on nebraskalegislature.gov (new tab) → |
Brief (4)
If it passes, what changes
This is a straight appropriations bill funding a workforce-data reporting system across four education agencies.
- Appropriates $130,893 (FY2025-26) and $179,795 (FY2026-27) from the General Fund to the State Department of Education, Program 25, §1.
- Same amounts appropriated to the Board of Trustees of the Nebraska State Colleges, Program 48, §2.
- Same amounts appropriated to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, Program 781, §3.
- Same amounts appropriated to Agency No. 83 (Aid to Community Colleges), Program 151, §4.
- §4 designates its funds as state aid to community colleges, disbursed by the Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education.
- §5 declares an emergency, so the act takes effect immediately on passage and approval.
Does it do what it claims
The title matches the operative text exactly: this is an appropriations bill for the Nebraska Statewide Workforce and Education Reporting System Act.
- Title says "appropriate funds for the Nebraska Statewide Workforce and Education Reporting System Act"; §§1-4 do exactly that.
- Title says "declare an emergency"; §5 does exactly that.
- The bill does not create, define, or amend the underlying Reporting System Act itself -- it only funds it.
- No section states what the Reporting System Act requires agencies to actually report or collect.
The case each way
The disagreement here is less about this bill's text and more about whether the underlying program it funds is worth the money.
- For: The bill is narrow and transparent -- four agencies, identical amounts, one stated purpose, easy for legislators to evaluate.
- For: Funding a statewide reporting system can improve coordination of workforce and education data across sectors.
- Against: Spreading identical sums across four separate agencies (§§1-4) may create duplicated administrative overhead rather than one coordinated system.
- Against: The bill funds the Act but does not itself explain what data will be collected or how it will be used.
What the text cannot settle
This reading covers only what the bill's text states; it says nothing about the reporting system's substance.
- The bill does not define the "Nebraska Statewide Workforce and Education Reporting System Act" or its requirements.
- No section states who compiles, publishes, or uses the reported data once collected.
- The text does not say why the amount rises from $130,893 to $179,795 between the two fiscal years.
- Whether the four agencies' efforts are coordinated or independent is not addressed in §§1-4.
Written by claude-sonnet-5 from the Introduced of this bill on 2026-09-13, and from nothing else. It is a reading, not a source: bullets naming a section this bill does not contain are dropped before the page is built, but the prose is not otherwise checked. The verdict above does not come from it.
KJV verdict (0)
NEITHER — The KJV does not speak to this bill
This bill only sets aside money for four education agencies to run a statewide system that reports workforce and education data. The Bible passages given here do not command or forbid keeping such records or paying for them, so the standard does not speak to what this bill does.
Read against the KJV standard from the Introduced text on 2026-09-13. Every quotation of the bill is checked against the bill's text and every verse is quoted from the 1769 text, not from the model.
Text (1)
- Introduced (new tab) (application/pdf)
Each link opens the legislature's own document.
All Actions (5)
| Date | Actor | All Actions |
|---|---|---|
| 04/17/2026 | Indefinitely postponed | |
| 01/07/2026 | Title printed. Carryover bill | |
| 02/05/2025 | Notice of hearing for February 25, 2025 | |
| 01/13/2025 | Referred to Appropriations Committee | |
| 01/09/2025 | Date of introduction |
Votes (0)
There have been no roll call votes on this bill.
Sponsors (1)
- Sen. Jana Hughes [District 24] — primary sponsor
Committees (1)
| Committee | Activity | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Appropriations | Referred | 01/13/2025 |
Amendments (0)
There are no amendments to this bill.
Fiscal Notes & Statements (2)
The legislature's own companion documents; each link opens the official copy.
Related Bills (0)
No related bill information was received.
How this was worked out (1)
1. What was read
| version | Introduced |
| file | 01-introduced.pdf |
| sha256 | 98e0796dbdfa5f390940ed1500e7dd20 |
| characters | 2,549 |
2. What it was read against
| the standard | bills/kjv_prompt.txt, sha256 79671b42553a40fe28a8ac9c8ce9e60a |
| model | claude-fable-5-1 |
| read on | 2026-09-13 |
| the model was shown | the standard -- the verses of the 1769 text, quoted in full -- and the bill's words, and nothing else |
3. The grounds (0)
| none -- the standard does not speak to what this bill does |
4. How the verdict follows
| FAIL grounds | 0 |
| PASS grounds | 0 |
| the rule | any FAIL ground fails the bill -- even one, even beside good provisions (1 Corinthians 5:6), even for a good end (Romans 3:8); PASS grounds alone pass it; no grounds, no verdict. No counting, no weighing, nothing added up. |
| verdict | NEITHER — The KJV does not speak to this bill |
5. What this cannot tell you
Every ground above quotes the bill and quotes the verse, so each can be checked. What the model did not raise cannot be checked the same way: a provision it passed over looks exactly like one that is not there. How often a ground is wrong, and how often one is missing, are not known.
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