LINCOLN- If passed, legislative resolution 22CA, introduced by Sen. Rob Dover, would allow voters to weigh in on whether or not to allow Nebraska state senator to serve an additional term, should they choose to. Back in 2000, voters approved the current two-term system utilized in Nebraska, but it didn't take effect until the 2006 elections.

"I think that when we instituted term limits, we did a disservice to the people of Nebraska to term limit one senator," Sen. Dover told the Legislature's Executive Committee, "And I think that was wrong." The one senator Dover cited is, assumedly, Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha, who represented north Omaha from 1971 to 2009, and again from 2013 to 2021.

Dover's introduced constitutional amendment has 39 cosponsors, including seven of the nine members of the Executive Committee. During the public hearing for LR22CA, Barry Kennedy, from the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce and Industry, testified in support of the bill, citing the fact that at least 15 senators will not return due to term limits in 2025. In a business, said Kennedy, employers would never dismiss employees after eight years. "Typically by then you're doing everything you can to keep them employed," said Kennedy.

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