Signed into law by the Governor
Appropriation Bill ↗
latest roll call: Final Reading · 04/03/2025 · Yea 47 · Nay 0 · Not voting/absent 2 (Vote Record)
| Sponsor | Sen. George Dungan (District 26) (Introduced 03/12/2025) |
|---|---|
| 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 | 04/10/2025 Approved by Governor on April 9, 2025 |
| Roll Call Votes | 3 |
| Source | view on nebraskalegislature.gov (new tab) → |
Brief (4)
If it passes, what changes
This is a funding bill that appropriates money to carry out an earlier law, LB22.
- §1 appropriates $380,628 from the Medicaid Managed Care Excess Profit Fund for FY2025-26.
- §1 appropriates $694,972 in federal funds for FY2025-26.
- §1 appropriates $774,002 from the Medicaid Managed Care Excess Profit Fund for FY2026-27.
- §1 appropriates $1,377,198 in federal funds for FY2026-27.
- §1 restricts all these amounts to "state aid" use, to the Department of Health and Human Services, Program 348.
- §1 bars any of this money from paying state employee salaries, per diems, temporary or permanent.
Does it do what it claims
The title says it appropriates funds to carry out LB22, and the operative section does exactly that and nothing more.
- Title claims funding "to aid in carrying out" LB22; §1 appropriates funds for that stated purpose.
- §1's dollar figures and fund sources match what the title implies -- a companion appropriations bill, not new policy.
- §1 names Program 348 and DHHS as the implementing agency, consistent with a Medicaid-related appropriation.
- No section claims to alter LB22's substantive terms; §1 is funding only.
The case each way
The disagreement here is less about hidden intent and more about whether funding an unseen underlying law deserves scrutiny on its own.
- For: §1 is narrow and transparent -- exact dollar amounts, exact fund sources, and a hard bar on paying salaries from the money.
- For: Restricting funds to "state aid" only, per §1, limits the money from being redirected to administrative overhead.
- Against: Without LB22's text, a reader cannot judge whether this level of funding is adequate, excessive, or serves the stated Medicaid purpose.
- Against: §1 relies entirely on an outside bill (LB22) for substance, so this text alone cannot show what "carrying out" the law actually means.
What the text cannot settle
This reading covers only what LB22A itself says; it cannot describe what LB22 does or whether the funding matches LB22's needs.
- LB22's substantive provisions are not in this bill's text and so cannot be evaluated here.
- What "state aid" specifically funds under Program 348 is not defined in §1.
- Why the FY2026-27 amounts roughly double the FY2025-26 amounts is not explained in the text.
- The source and mechanics of the "Medicaid Managed Care Excess Profit Fund" are not described in §1.
- Whether $694,972 and $1,377,198 in federal funds are already secured or merely anticipated is not stated.
Written by claude-sonnet-5 from the Slip Law 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 moves money: it sets aside state and federal funds for the Department of Health and Human Services to carry out Legislative Bill 22, and bars spending it on state salaries. What that money actually does depends on Legislative Bill 22, whose provisions are not in this text. The standard does not speak to a bare transfer of funds whose purpose is defined elsewhere.
Read against the KJV standard from the Slip Law 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 (4)
- Introduced (new tab) (application/pdf)
- Final Reading (new tab) (application/pdf)
- Slip Law (new tab) (application/pdf)
- Engrossed (new tab) (application/pdf)
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All Actions (12)
| Date | Actor | All Actions |
|---|---|---|
| 04/10/2025 | Approved by Governor on April 9, 2025 | |
| 04/03/2025 | Presented to Governor on April 3, 2025 | |
| 04/03/2025 | President/Speaker signed | |
| 04/03/2025 | Passed on Final Reading 47-0-2 | |
| 04/01/2025 | Placed on Final Reading | |
| 03/28/2025 | Advanced to Enrollment and Review for Engrossment | |
| 03/28/2025 | Dungan AM780 adopted | |
| 03/26/2025 | Dungan AM780 filed | |
| 03/25/2025 | Placed on Select File | |
| 03/14/2025 | Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial | |
| 03/12/2025 | Placed on General File | |
| 03/12/2025 | Date of introduction |
Votes (3)
04/03/2025 · Final Reading · 47-0-2
Yea (47): Andersen, Ibach, Arch, Jacobson, Armendariz, Juarez, Ballard, Kauth, Bosn, Lippincott, Bostar, Lonowski, Brandt, McKeon, Cavanaugh, J., Cavanaugh, M., Meyer, Clements, Moser, Clouse, Murman, Conrad, Prokop, DeBoer, Quick, DeKay, Raybould, Dorn, Riepe, Dover, Rountree, Dungan, Sanders, Fredrickson, Sorrentino, Spivey, Hallstrom, Storer, Hansen, Storm, Hardin, Strommen, Holdcroft, von Gillern, Hughes, Wordekemper, Hunt
Not voting / absent (2): McKinney, Guereca
03/28/2025 · AM 780 Dungan · 38-0-11
Yea (38): Andersen, Arch, Jacobson, Armendariz, Juarez, Kauth, Bosn, Lippincott, Bostar, Lonowski, Brandt, McKinney, Cavanaugh, M., Meyer, Clements, Moser, Clouse, Murman, Conrad, Prokop, Quick, DeKay, Dorn, Dover, Rountree, Dungan, Sanders, Sorrentino, Guereca, Spivey, Hallstrom, Storer, Hansen, Storm, Hardin, Holdcroft, Hughes, Wordekemper
Not voting / absent (11): Ibach, Ballard, McKeon, Cavanaugh, J., DeBoer, Raybould, Riepe, Fredrickson, Strommen, von Gillern, Hunt
03/14/2025 · ADVANCE TO E&R INITIAL · 41-0-8
Yea (41): Andersen, Ibach, Arch, Jacobson, Armendariz, Juarez, Ballard, Kauth, Bosn, Lippincott, Lonowski, Brandt, McKeon, Cavanaugh, J., McKinney, Cavanaugh, M., Meyer, Clements, Moser, Clouse, Murman, Conrad, Prokop, Quick, DeKay, Raybould, Dorn, Dover, Rountree, Dungan, Sorrentino, Hallstrom, Storer, Hansen, Storm, Hardin, Strommen, Holdcroft, von Gillern, Hughes, Wordekemper
Not voting / absent (8): Bostar, DeBoer, Riepe, Sanders, Fredrickson, Guereca, Spivey, Hunt
Every roll call as the legislature recorded it, with each member's vote by name.
Sponsors (1)
- Sen. George Dungan [District 26] — primary sponsor
Committees (0)
No committee referrals were recorded for this bill.
Amendments (1)
| Amendment | By | Date | Outcome | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AM780 | Dungan | adopted |
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 | Slip Law |
| file | 03-slip-law.pdf |
| sha256 | f52e95ab192024e67bfeda08af6ebfd3 |
| characters | 1,362 |
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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