LINCOLN- Bills to eliminate tenure protections for university professors in an effort to halt "indoctrination of leftist ideology" and do away with Nebraska's inheritance tax were among 37 proposals introduced on Monday in the Nebraska Legislature. Sen. Loren Lippincott, who introduced the proposal seeking to eliminate tenure, said that "higher education lacks a serious degree of accountability" because of tenure.

"As tax-paying citizens, we have a right to expect that our tax dollars will be used to educate and edify our students," said Lippincott, "not indoctrinate them with leftist ideology." Lippincott's bill has 11 co-sponsors. Melissa Lee, a spokeswoman for the NU System, said officials from the university are reviewing Lippincott's proposal. "Our plans for the University of Nebraska to grow and compete will require us to hold all our faculty and staff to high levels of performance and accountability," said Lee.

Via LB1067, a bill introduced on Monday with 24 co-sponsors, Sen. Rob Clements seeks to eliminate the state's inheritance tax by 2028. Currently, Nebraska is one of only five states that levy a so-called "death tax," which Clements described as actually being a "double tax," since property taxes are already paid on land and residence. Clements said that he knows of several tax prepares who advise seniors nearing death to move out of Nebraska.

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