The Nebraska Senate Government, Military & Veterans Affairs Committee held a hearing on SB 98 on March 13. In Nebraska, committees don’t vote on bills at the time of the hearing. But many bills never even get a committee hearing, so this shows the bill is making progress. It lowers the non-presidential independent candidate petitions from 10% of the number of registered voters, to 4,000 for statewide office.

The old 10% law was held unconstitutional in 2018.