LINCOLN — The Nebraska Legislature will look very different when lawmakers return to the Capitol later this month.

Clear plastic dividers have been installed between the rows of desks, hand sanitizer will be scattered around and only a few staff will be allowed into the chamber with senators. Balconies will be reserved for senators and the press, while the public and lobbyists will have to stay in the Rotunda.

But for the most part, lawmakers will confront the same issues they were wrestling with before they took a pandemic-induced break, two key lawmakers said Wednesday. “I don’t think in a lot of ways very much has changed,” said State Sen. Mike Hilgers of Lincoln, the chairman of the Legislature’s Executive Board. “We go back to where we were in March.”

Speaker of the Legislature Jim Scheer of Norfolk joined Hilgers to talk about the rest of the session in a webinar sponsored by the Platte Institute, an Omaha-based think tank.

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