LINCOLN — A Nebraska legislative committee Thursday advanced multiple legislative bills seeking public catalogs of student surveillance tools, surveys, and library books in K-12 schools. Education Committee members voted 7-0, with one member absent, to advance Legislative Bill 31 on student surveillance tools, from State Sen. Danielle Conrad of Lincoln. The committee also voted 6-1 to advance LB 390 on libraries, from State Sen. Dave Murman of Glenvil, the committee chair. State Sen. Megan Hunt of Omaha opposed the libraries bill.

The committee also voted 6-0 to advance a related bill from Murman, LB 428, which requires that parents be able to review non-anonymous surveys before they are given to students and be able to exempt their child from participating. No survey requesting sexual information of a student could be administered in kindergarten through grade six. The bill was amended to require that parents receive notification at least 15 days before any such survey is administered, rather than at least 30 days. On that bill, Hunt was “present, not voting.”

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