LINCOLN- Tenants who faced eviction but were never ordered to abandon a rental property would be able to keep that information private from future landlords under a compromise adopted Wednesday by the Nebraska Legislature. However, despite the compromise made on Sen. Dungan's LB175, the Residential Tenant Clean Slate Act, a filibuster led by Sen. Julie Slama continues.

"This is an attack on private property rights, even in this slimmed down version," said Slama. Dungan, an attorney, argued that the Clean Slate Act would mirror how criminal cases are handled, and how dropped or vacated cases don't appear on someone's publicly accessible records.

Slama also argued that the bill was an act of "big government," stating that the proposal, if passed, would tie "the hands of landlords." However, Dungan disputed that claim, arguing that the bill protected both landlords and tenants and that a landlord would still be allowed to indicate to other landlords that a tenant was a bad renter.

Despite the compromises made on LB175, which significantly narrowed the scope of the bill, Sen. Dungan's bill was ultimately defeated by the filibuster on Thursday after a failed cloture vote. The vote, 30-6, fell just short of the 33 votes necessary to invoke cloture and stop the filibuster. This is a contrast to the 32-11 vote that was utilized to adopt the earlier compromises.

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