LINCOLN- Nebraska legislators aren’t headed back to Lincoln to consider a prohibition on vaccine mandates — at least not yet.

An effort to convene the Legislature for a special session failed to garner enough support from state senators to move forward.

State Sens. Ben Hansen of Blair and Rob Clements of Elmwood led the push. They delivered a letter, signed by 26 state senators, to the Secretary of State’s Office on Oct. 19.

The letter requested a session to consider “legislation to prohibit employers from mandating COVID-19 vaccines,” according to a press release from Hansen’s office, as well as legislation to bar government or educational entities from mandating the vaccines “as a condition of receiving services.”

At least 33 (two-thirds) of the state’s 49 senators have to join the call to trigger a special session under state law — that’s also the number of senators needed to overcome a filibuster by opponents.

Secretary of State Bob Evnen notified the senators who hadn’t signed the letter and two additional senators ultimately did sign on, according to the Secretary of State’s Office: Sens. Rich Pahls of Omaha and Matt Williams of Gothenburg. The deadline was Novemebr 1st.

The effort fell five senators short.

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