OMAHA- The November ballot will include an option to improve commercial airline travel in Nebraska.

“We’ve been talking about the need for this amendment for over a year but our communities and business across the state have been telling us for decades,” said Kristen Hassebrook, Executive VP of legislation and policy at the Nebraska Chamber.

A vote Amendment One would authorize any city, county, or other political subdivisions that own or operate an airport to use its revenue for development of new or expanded regularly scheduled commercial passenger air service.

“People expect to have easy and safe access to travel opportunities whether its travel or leisure,” said District 29 Sen. Eliot Bostar.

Grow Nebraska is a bipartisan group that has worked to get this amendment on the ballot to change the Nebraska constitution.

Senators Eliot Bostar and Lou Ann Linehan along with District One representative Mike Flood are on the Grow Nebraska committee.

“The more direct flights we have in Nebraska the better off Nebraska is as a state,” said Rep. Flood.

State Senators say that this initiative is one of the many ways to grow Nebraska and start the increase of access to the great state.

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