Indefinitely postponed
Appropriation Bill ↗
| Sponsor | Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh (District 6) (Introduced 05/19/2025) |
|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| 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 an appropriations bill, funding a companion bill rather than setting policy itself. It moves token money to one agency program so that companion bill can take effect.
- Appropriates $-0- from the General Fund for FY2025-26 to DHHS Program 347, §1.
- Appropriates $1 from the General Fund for FY2026-27 to DHHS Program 347, §1.
- Of the FY2026-27 amount, $1 is designated for state aid, restricted to that use, §1.
- Of the FY2025-26 amount, $-0- is designated for state aid, restricted to that use, §1.
- Bars use of any funds appropriated here for state employee salaries or per diems, §1.
- States its purpose as carrying out LB13, 109th Legislature, First Session, 2025, §1.
Does it do what it claims
The title matches the operative section exactly: it claims only to appropriate funds for LB13, and that is all §1 does. Nothing in the text claims any broader effect.
- Title says "appropriate funds to aid in carrying out ... Legislative Bill 13"; §1 does exactly that.
- The token $-0- and $1 figures match a funding mechanism for an underlying bill, not a substantive program.
- No provision claims to create, amend, or repeal any policy or program itself.
- No claim is made about what LB13 does; that bill's content is not before this text.
The case each way
Because the amounts are nominal, the disagreement is about what this kind of appropriation signals, not about dollars. Any reader relying only on the underlying dollar figures will conclude nothing.
- For: A $1 or $-0- appropriation is a standard placeholder that lets a companion bill become law without a real budget commitment yet.
- For: The salary restriction in §1 keeps the token funds from being diverted to administrative costs.
- Against: A $1 appropriation gives the Legislature no meaningful fiscal check on whatever LB13 actually requires.
- Against: Naming Program 347 without describing it leaves a reader unable to judge scope from this text alone.
What the text cannot settle
This reading covers only the four sentences of §1; the substance being funded is entirely outside this text. A reader should not assume any policy content from this bill.
- The text does not say what LB13 does, so the real-world effect of this appropriation is unknown from here.
- "Program 347" is not defined or described in this text.
- Whether $1 is a genuine funding level or a symbolic placeholder is not stated.
- Whether "state aid" recipients, amounts, or eligibility exist is not addressed here.
- No effective date, fund source detail beyond "General Fund," or duration limit is given in this text.
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 to carry out a separate bill, Legislative Bill 13, and the amount is zero dollars in the first year and one dollar in the second. Nothing in the text says what that money would actually do, since the provisions being funded live in the other bill. The scriptures given do not speak to a placeholder appropriation of this kind.
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 (4)
| Date | Actor | All Actions |
|---|---|---|
| 04/17/2026 | Indefinitely postponed | |
| 01/07/2026 | Title printed. Carryover bill | |
| 05/19/2025 | Placed on General File | |
| 05/19/2025 | Date of introduction |
Votes (0)
There have been no roll call votes on this bill.
Sponsors (1)
- Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh [District 6] — primary sponsor
Committees (0)
No committee referrals were recorded for this bill.
Amendments (0)
There are no amendments to this bill.
Fiscal Notes & Statements (0)
The legislature published no fiscal notes or statements for this bill.
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 | 9d02b4b85d24ffaaf2e9acb72d986cf1 |
| characters | 1,250 |
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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