The Legislature is getting a four-day weekend and will reconvene Tuesday at 10 a.m. After a list of consent calendar bills, it will take up a bill (LB970) introduced by Sen. Tyson Larson that would address issues affecting charitable gaming, specifically pickle cards and keno. Omaha Sen. Ernie Chambers has filed a motion to kill the bill.Â
Hearings will be held Tuesday in five committees: Agriculture; Appropriations; Banking, Commerce and Insurance; Education and Urban Affairs. Details are available at:
A power outage plunged the Capitol into darkness for about 45 minutes Thursday, interrupting a handful of afternoon legislative hearings. Electrical service failed around 4:20 p.m. and was restored shortly after 5 o'clock. The outage was caused by a lightbulb socket in the building's master control panel that shorted, blowing fuses for both the primary power source through Lincoln Electric System and backup power from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, according to Taylor Gage, spokesman for Gov. Pete Ricketts.