LINCOLN - Nebraskans hoping to file their 2024 taxes on time and still cash in on the state’s new property tax relief have waited in vain. Gering Sen. Brian Hardin submitted LB81 this session with the intent of correcting an error with LB34, the property tax relief bill signed into law by Gov. Jim Pillen at the end of the summer special session, called for exactly that purpose.

Three senators later discovered that the law had “inadvertently nullified” Nebraskans’ ability to collect on their 2023 property tax credit when they file their 2024 income tax, and several senators vowed to correct the error in the next session. Instead, the bill has languished in committee.

“LB81 has stalled in the Revenue Committee without the support among committee members to advance to General File, and lacks the support in the body as a whole for a pull motion,” Gering Sen. Brian Hardin told First Alert 6 on Tuesday, which is also Tax Day. “I am disappointed there is not the desire among the majority of my fellow senators to right our wrongs from the 2024 Legislative Special Session,” said State Sen. Brian Hardin of Gering

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