{"id":4820,"date":"2026-02-11T10:14:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/civic\/?p=4820"},"modified":"2026-03-02T10:19:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:19:33","slug":"109b-lb1257","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/civic\/2026\/02\/11\/109b-lb1257\/","title":{"rendered":"109B LB1257"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>February 11, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Brad von Gillern, Chairperson<br>Sen. Mike Jacobson, Vice Chairperson<br>Sen. Eliot Bostar<br>Sen. George Dungan<br>Sen. Teresa Ibach<br>Sen. Kathleen Kauth<br>Sen. Dave Murman<br>Sen. Tony Sorrentino<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chairman von Gillern and members of the Revenue Committee:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lincoln Public School District opposes LB 1257. The major fundamental changes proposed in LB 1257 require substantive modeling and analysis to determine the impact on students across the state. Dramatically reducing the maximum tax levy and distributing funding much more heavily on a per student basis will have major consequences as it relates to funding schools across the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Liz Standish<br>Associate Superintendent for Business Affairs<br>Lincoln Public Schools<br>lstandis@lps.org<br>402-436-1635<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Testimony on LB1257 to eliminate certain sales tax exemptions, impose sales and use taxes on certain services, change school district levy limitations, eliminate the School District Property Tax Relief Act, change provisions of the School District Property Tax Limitation Act, and provide additional foundation aid under the Tax Equity and Educational Opportunities Support Act by Associate Superintendent of Business Affairs, Liz Standish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[377,413,23],"class_list":["post-4820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testimony","tag-109b","tag-lb1257","tag-liz-standish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4820"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4826,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820\/revisions\/4826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}