Lippincott's LB548 Advances

A local senator’s bill was on the docket on Thursday. District 34 Senator Loren Lippincott made LB548 his priority bill for the session. The measure would allow government-owned natural gas systems to utilize provisions of the IRS code to provide natural gas price discounts to large industrial customers not currently served by another public or investor-owned utility

District 35 Senator Dan Quick had reservations.

After over an hour of debate, LB548 advanced on a 25-9 vote.  Quick ended up ‘present, not voting’.  Other local senators Dan Lonowski, Stan Clouse, and Fred Meyer voted to advance the bill.

A bill to define male and female for bathroom access drew seven hours of testimony during a hearing yesterday. Get the update from the Unicameral Update here.