Nebraska bill LB 523 failed to pass the Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee, and therefore it is dead. The Nebraska Senate’s deadline for bills to pass committee was last week. The bill would have required petition circulators to wear ID badges, which would not include the circulator’s name, but would include a unique number assigned to that circulator. It also would have required the person in charge of the petition drive to keep a record of names and addresses of all persons working on that petition drive.

Secretary of State John Gale initiated this bill, and even testified for it in person, but he did not persuade the committee to advance the bill. Thanks to Kent Bernbeck for this news.