LINCOLN- A group of state lawmakers is rallying support for potential 2025 legislation aimed at plugging a ‘hole’ left in this tax year by a last-minute compromise during a summer special session focused on property tax relief. State Sen. Steve Erdman of Bayard is among the coalition’s leading voices. Though term-limited, he drafted legislation to address the “error” he first called out after the special session: a “missing year” of tax relief, because there will be no income tax credits next year for the property taxes paid in 2024.

Erdman and fellow term-limited State Sens. Justin Wayne of Omaha and Steve Halloran of Hastings were the only three lawmakers to oppose Legislative Bill 34 in this summer’s special session. All three sought more substantive policies. Erdman called the proposal he and five other lawmakers unveiled Thursday “a starting point.”

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