Nebraska Legislature - Lobbyist Reporting Application

Clerk of the Legislature

Room 2014 State Capitol

PO Box 94604

Lincoln, NE 68509

(402) 471-2608

NEBRASKA LOBBYIST
STATEMENT of ACTIVITY

NADC FORM D

Submission Date: Jul 11, 2025

Each registered lobbyist shall file a Statement of Activity within 45 days after the end of a regular session of the Legislature. The statement must be filed even if the lobbyist engaged in no activity.
Any registered lobbyist who engages in lobbying activity in connection with a special session of the Legislature shall file a Statement of Activity within 45 days after the end of the special session. Late filing fees are $25.00 per day, not to exceed $750.00.
Lobbyists having more than one principal shall file a separate report for each principal.

ITEM 1

NATURE OF FILING (Check appropriate box)

For Calendar Year of

2025

Regular Session

Special Session

Amended Report

ITEM 2

NAME OF LOBBYIST AND PRINCIPAL

LOBBYIST

Lobbyist Name

Traynor, Hunter

Phone

(402) 474-4422

Address

1128 Lincoln Mall, Ste. 302

City

Lincoln

State

Zip

68508

PRINCIPAL

Principal Name

Nebraska Chamber of Commerce & Industry

Office Phone

(402) 474-4422

Office Address (Street, Box, or Route)

1128 Lincoln Mall, Suite 302

City

Lincoln

State

Zip

68508

List all the legislation upon which the lobbyist acted on behalf of the principal including bills, resolutions, amendments and procedural matters. Identify by number of bill, resolution, amendment or procedural matter and state the position taken. This statement should include a list of amendments or procedural matters which the lobbyist has acted upon for the principal, even if the lobbyist has not acted upon the bill or resolution from which the amendment or procedural matter arises.

Identify bill or resolution number	Identify amendment or procedural matter	Describe bill, resolution, amendment or procedural matter	Position taken
LB8		Change provisions relating to the tax credits under the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Tax Credit Act	Support
LB11		Appropriate funds for the Nebraska Statewide Workforce and Education Reporting System Act	Support
LB29		Create a review process for agency rules and regulations	Support
LB36		Adopt the Safe Battery Collection and Recycling Act, provide for the Home Weatherization Clearinghouse and for mitigation of incidental taking of threatened or endangered species habitat, change provisions relating to the Water Recreation Enhancement Act, ground water allocation, and permits and stamps issued by the Game and Parks Commission, and create the Research Excellence Cash Fund	Neutral
LB37		Adopt the Railroad Safety Act	Oppose
LB50		Change provisions relating to the distribution of the nameplate capacity tax	Support
LB55		State intent regarding appropriations for medicaid rates for mental health providers	Support
LB68		Provide insurance and medicaid coverage for certain contraceptives	Oppose
LB71		Change requirements for child care reimbursement rates	Support
LB75		Change provisions of the Wage and Hour Act relating to tipped employees and provide for complaints, prohibited actions, and liquidated damages	Oppose
LB77		Adopt the Ensuring Transparency in Prior Authorization Act and provide for insurance and medicaid coverage of biomarker testing	Neutral
LB81		Define a term and change tax credit provisions under the Nebraska Property Tax Incentive Act	Neutral
LB94		Adopt the Digital Skills Empowerment Act and change the use of the Workforce Development Program Cash Fund	Support
LB95		Provide for a pilot program under the federal Child Care Subsidy program	Support
LB100		Adopt the Business Innovation and Startup Act	Neutral
LB128		Change provisions relating to the investigation of railroad accidents	Oppose
LB130		Change provisions relating to General Fund net receipts and transfers to the Cash Reserve Fund	Support
LB169		Eliminate certain sales and use tax exemptions and impose sales and use tax on certain services	Oppose
LB170		Eliminate the sales tax exemptions for candy and soft drinks	Oppose
LB170	a1318	Eliminate the sales tax exemptions for candy and soft drinks	Oppose
LB171		Change provisions relating to individual and corporate income tax rates	Oppose
LB173		Appropriate funds for aid to community colleges and state intent	Support
LB188		State intent to appropriate for medicaid nursing facility rates	Support
LB189		Adopt the Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Act	Neutral
LB199		Change the statute of limitations for personal injury actions, include administrative proceedings within the Nonrecourse Civil Litigation Act, require disclosures by consumers under such act, and provide for discipline against civil litigation funding companies	Support
LB200		Provide for exemptions under the Personal Property Tax Relief Act	Support
LB201		Provide for a fee under Nebraska Money Transmitters Act	Oppose
LB204		Adopt the Biometric Autonomy Liberty Law	Oppose
LB215		Require the establishment of a program to provide second chance relief for eligible committed offenders	Support
LB229		Exclude marketplace network contractors working for marketplace network platforms from the Employment Security Law	Support
LB241		Provide immunity from liability for cybersecurity events	Support
LB246		Prohibit cultivated-protein food products under the Nebraska Pure Food Act and provide a deceptive trade practice	Neutral
LB252		Prohibit disadvantaging insurance and Medicaid coverage for nonopioid drugs	Oppose
LB253		Provide for insurance and medicaid coverage of biomarker testing	Oppose
LB254		State legislative intent to transfer funds for workforce housing	Support
LB258		Change provisions relating to the minimum wage under the Wage and Hour Act	Support
LB264		Provide, change, and eliminate transfers from the Cash Reserve Fund and various other funds and change, terminate, and eliminate various statutory programs	Oppose
LB264	am1402	Provide, change, and eliminate transfers from the Cash Reserve Fund and various other funds and change, terminate, and eliminate various statutory programs	Neutral
LB265		Adopt the Manufacturing Modernization and Workforce Development Pilot Investment Act, transfer, change, and eliminate funds, change provisions relating to the state unemployment insurance tax rate, and eliminate the Nebraska Worker Training Board	Support
LB265	am1643	Adopt the Manufacturing Modernization and Workforce Development Pilot Investment Act, transfer, change, and eliminate funds, change provisions relating to the state unemployment insurance tax rate, and eliminate the Nebraska Worker Training Board	Support
LB268	am1430	Require the Department of Health and Human Services to implement a provider rate increase for developmental disability services	Support
LB288		Change provisions of the Property Assessed Clean Energy Act, the Community Development Law, the Nebraska Affordable Housing Act, and the Middle Income Workforce Housing Investment Act	Support
LB288	am1181	Change provisions of the Property Assessed Clean Energy Act, the Community Development Law, the Nebraska Affordable Housing Act, and the Middle Income Workforce Housing Investment Act	Support
LB288	am733	Change provisions of the Property Assessed Clean Energy Act, the Community Development Law, the Nebraska Affordable Housing Act, and the Middle Income Workforce Housing Investment Act	Support
LB288	am968	Change provisions of the Property Assessed Clean Energy Act, the Community Development Law, the Nebraska Affordable Housing Act, and the Middle Income Workforce Housing Investment Act	Support
LB292		Provide for a grant to study prefabricated housing	Support
LB295	am900	Change provisions relating to the County Employees Retirement Act, the Judges Retirement Act, the Nebraska State Patrol Retirement Act, the School Employees Retirement Act, the State Employees Retirement Act, the Spousal Pension Rights Act, and the Public Employees Retirement Board	Support
LB297		Change provisions relating to the combined tax rate under the Employment Security Law	Support
LB299		Allow eligible aliens and dependents to receive public benefits relating to employment	Support
LB300		Change provisions relating to the Superintendent Pay Transparency Act and provide a limit for superintendent and educational service unit administrator compensation	Oppose
LB304		Eliminate a sunset date for the federal Child Care Subsidy program	Support
LB328		Change provisions relating to the disbursement of the documentary stamp tax	Oppose
LB336		Create the Task Force on Supported Employment	Support
LB363		Adopt the Apprenticeship Grant Act	Support
LB366		Create the Legislative Economic Analysis Unit and the Chief Economist	Support
LB415		Change provisions of the Nebraska Healthy Families and Workplaces Act and the Conveyance Safety Act and provide for offset of debt owed due to the overpayment of unemployment benefits under the Employment Security Law against gambling winnings under the Gambling Winnings Setoff for Outstanding Debt Act and against future benefits under the Employment Security Law	Support
LB415	am1337	Change provisions of the Nebraska Healthy Families and Workplaces Act and the Conveyance Safety Act and provide for offset of debt owed due to the overpayment of unemployment benefits under the Employment Security Law against gambling winnings under the Gambling Winnings Setoff for Outstanding Debt Act and against future benefits under the Employment Security Law	Support
LB415	am545	Change provisions of the Nebraska Healthy Families and Workplaces Act and the Conveyance Safety Act and provide for offset of debt owed due to the overpayment of unemployment benefits under the Employment Security Law against gambling winnings under the Gambling Winnings Setoff for Outstanding Debt Act and against future benefits under the Employment Security Law	Support
LB423		Eliminate a grant program relating to internships for job training	Oppose
LB447		Provide certain requirements for redevelopment contracts under the Community Development Law	Oppose
LB455		Provide for confidentiality of and access to certain injury reports under the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Act	Support
LB456		Provide for a patient’s waiver for the release of employee hospital and medical records under the Nebraska Workers’ Compensation Act	Support
LB458		Change provisions relating to tax sale certificates, real property sold for delinquent taxes, certain tax-related foreclosure actions, and land banks and adopt the Permitting Approval Timeliness Act and the By-Right Housing Development Act	Oppose
LB468		Change provisions relating to inheritance taxes, change certain fee and tax provisions, and eliminate a sales tax exemption relating to data centers	Oppose
LB468	am1069	Change provisions relating to inheritance taxes, change certain fee and tax provisions, and eliminate a sales tax exemption relating to data centers	Support
LB482		Change provisions relating to attorney’s fees in insurance cases	Support
LB484		Redefine agricultural land and horticultural land for property tax assessment	Support
LB494		Change provisions relating to the School District Property Tax Relief Act and transfers of General Fund net receipts to the Cash Reserve Fund and the School District Property Tax Relief Credit Fund	Neutral
LB503		Authorize the designation of American energy friendly counties and change provisions relating to privately developed renewable energy generation facilities and the nameplate capacity tax	Neutral
LB522		Change provisions relating to the date when compensation begins and provide for cost-of-living adjustments under the Nebraska Workers’ Compensation Act	Oppose
LB526		Provide powers and duties for public power districts related to cryptocurrency mining operations	Oppose
LB526	am691	Provide powers and duties for public power districts related to cryptocurrency mining operations	Support
LB531		Provide an exception to the requirement that buildings constructed with state funds comply with the 2018 International Energy Conservation Code	Support
LB532		Require employers to use E-Verify, prohibit knowingly hiring an unauthorized alien, and provide for discipline against employers' licenses	Neutral
LB536		Adopt the Manufacturing Modernization Pilot Investment Act	Support
LB554		Create the Nebraska Health Professions Commission	Support
LB558		Create the Infrastructure Review Task Force for the state highway system	Support
LB565		Provide and change requirements relating to agency guidance documents	Support
LB573		Adopt the Meat and Poultry Workers and Contractors Protection Act	Oppose
LB607		Adopt the Environmental Stewardship of Batteries Act, the Extended Producer Responsibility Data Collection Act, and the Minimum Recycled Content Act, and change provisions relating to the Integrated Solid Waste Management Act, the Environmental Protection Act, and the Waste Reduction and Recycling Incentive Fund	Oppose
LB611		Adopt updates to building and energy codes	Oppose
LB622		Provide for the Statewide Housing Assistance Program and change provisions relating to the Affordable Housing Trust Fund, recipients of assistance, and selection of recipients under the Nebraska Affordable Housing Act and the rate and disbursement of the documentary stamp tax	Neutral
LB626		Authorize redevelopment projects involving affordable housing under the Community Development Law	Support
LB642		Adopt the Artificial Intelligence Consumer Protection Act	Oppose
LB649	am933	Adopt the Defense Efforts Workforce Act	Support
LB649	am632	Adopt the Defense Efforts Workforce Act	Support
LB649	am1210	Adopt the Defense Efforts Workforce Act	Support
LB649		Adopt the Defense Efforts Workforce Act	Support
LB650		Adopt the Community Development Assistance Act and change provisions relating to land banks, property tax exemptions, real property sold for delinquent taxes, sales tax provisions, and certain tax credits	Oppose
LB651		Change provisions of the Nebraska Medical Cannabis Patient Protection Act and the Nebraska Medical Cannabis Regulation Act and provide for regulation of medical cannabis	Support
LB672		Provide a contribution limit for candidate committees under the Nebraska Political Accountability and Disclosure Act	Oppose
LB677		Change provisions of the Nebraska Medical Cannabis Regulation Act and provide for regulation of medical cannabis	Support
LB698		Change provisions of the Nebraska Healthy Families and Workplaces Act	Support
LR7CA		Constitutional amendment to change legislative salaries to thirty thousand dollars annually	Support
LR12CA		Constitutional amendment to impose a limit on ad valorem taxes for real property, provide a new method of valuing real property for tax purposes, provide certain exceptions, and eliminate conflicting constitutional provisions	Oppose
LR13CA		Constitutional amendment to prohibit the levying of an inheritance tax	Support
LR19CA		Constitutional amendment to change legislative term limits to three consecutive terms	Support
LR25CA		Constitutional amendment to change the compensation of members of the Legislature and provide for health insurance	Support
LR27CA		Constitutional amendment to change legislative term limits to three consecutive terms	Support

I certify that all information presented in this form is accurate to the best of my knowledge.

Hunter Traynor

Lobbyist Name

Jul 11, 2025

Date