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MANUAL
OF
Nebraska Legislative
Procedure
SENATE RULESHOUSE RULES
JOINT RULES
APPORTIONMENT
CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS
BILL DRAFTING
EDITION OF 1983
COMPILED BY
THE NEBRASKA LEGISLATIVE
REFERENCE BUREAU
PREFACE
A Manual of Nebraska Legislative Procedure has been prepared by the Legislative Reference Bureau for each session since 1915. It is made at the request of the legislature to meet the demand at the beginning of each session for rules and information in convenient form. The rules found herein contain all the changes made by the senate and house of 1931, including changes made in the special session of 1931, and those made by the constitutional convention of 1920.An outline of legislative procedure in Nebraska, condensed extracts from the constitution which apply to legislative work, and a chapter on bill drafting, which seem desirable in such a brief manual, have been added.
The Bureau is primarily an information service, and aid to the legislature in bill drafting is only incidental to the more fundamental problems of research. Much of the Bureau's bill drafting work consists in revising bills handed to legislators by their constituents. The chapter on bill drafting is included in the hope that a knowledge or the constitutional provisions and legislative rules on hill drafting will minimize the necessity for so much revision.
EDNA D. BULLOCK,
Director.January 1, 1933.
NEBRASKA
LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE BUREAU
MEMBERS OF STAFF, SESSION 1933
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Edna D. Bullock |
Director and Librarian |
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Louise A. Nixon |
Assistant Director |
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George R. Mann |
Counsellor and Bill Drafter |
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Dwight C. Dahlman |
Counsellor and Bill Drafter |
NEBRASKA STATE OFFICERS, 1933
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Governor. |
Charles W. Bryan |
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Lieutenant-Governor |
Walter H. Jurgensen |
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Secretary of State |
Harry R. Swanson |
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Auditor |
William B. Price |
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Treasurer |
George E. Hall |
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Attorney General |
Paul F. Good |
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Commissioner of Public Lands and Buildings |
Harry P. Conklin |
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Superintendent of Public Instruction |
Charles W. Taylor |
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Railway Commissioners |
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Charles A. Randall, Hugh H. Drake, Floyd L. Bollen |
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Board of Control |
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H. S. Thorpe, Mrs. Nellie G. Benson, Walter E. Hager |
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Supreme Court Judges: |
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Chief Justice |
Charles A. Goss |
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Associate Justices: |
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W. B. Rose, L. B. Day, James R. Dean, E. E. Good, Bayard H. Paine, George A. Eberly |
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Regents of the University |
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F. J. Taylor, Dr. A. C. Stokes, Fred A. Marsh, Earl M. Cline, Stanley D. Long, Marion A. Shaw |
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NEBRASKA LEGISLATIVE MANUAL |
PRESIDING OFFICERS NEBRASKA
LEGISLATURES
PRESIDENTS OF TERRITORIAL COUNCIL
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J. L. Sharp, 1855 |
W. H. Taylor, 1860 |
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B. R. Folsom, 1855 |
John Taffe, 1861 |
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L. L. Bowen, 1857 |
E. A. Allen, 1864 |
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George L. Miller, 1857 |
O. P. Mason, 1865-66 |
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L. L. Bowen, 1858 |
F. H. Rogers, 1867 |
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E. A. Donelan, 1859 |
SPEAKERS OF TERRITORIAL ASSEMBLY
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A. J. Hanscom, 1855 |
H. W. DePuy, 1860 |
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P. C. Sullivan, 1855 |
A. D. Jones, 1861 |
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I. L. Gibbs, 1857 |
George B. Lake, 1864 |
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J. H. Decker, 1857 |
S. M. Kirkpatrick, 1865 |
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H. P. Bennett, 1858 |
James G. Megeath, 1866 |
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S. A. Strickland, 1859 |
W. F. Chapin, 1867 |
PRESIDENTS PRO TEM OF THE SENATE
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Frank Welch, 1866 |
A. R. Talbot, 1899 |
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E. F. Rogers, 1867-68 |
N. V. Harlan, 1901 |
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E. E. Cunningham, 1871 |
W. H. Harrison, 1903 |
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W. A. Gwyer, 1873 |
W. H. Jennings, 1905 |
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N. K. Griggs, 1875 |
Chas. L. Saunders, 1907 |
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Guy C. Barton, 1876 |
Geo. W. Tibbets, 1909 |
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G. F. Blanchard, 1877 |
John H. Morehead, 1911 |
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Wm. Marshall, 1879 |
J. H. Kemp, 1913 |
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J. B. Dinsmore, 1881 |
Philip H. Kohl, 1915 |
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A. H. Conner, 1883 |
John Mattes, Jr., 1917-18 |
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Church Howe, 1885 |
B. K. Bushee, 1919 |
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G. D. Meiklejohn, 1887 |
R. S. Norval, 1921 |
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Church Howe, 1889 |
Chas. L. Saunders, 1923 |
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W. A. Poynter, 1891 |
John W. Robbins, 1925 |
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E. M. Correll, 1893 |
Perry Reed, 1927 |
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J. C. Watson, 1895 |
John W. Cooper, 1929 |
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F. T. Ransom, 1897 |
J. C. McGowan, 1931 |
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SPEAKERS OF THE HOUSE
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W. A. Pollock, 1866 |
Paul F. Clark, 1899 |
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W. F. Chapin, 1867-68 |
W. G. Sears, 1901 |
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W. McLennan, 1869-70 |
J. H. Mockett, Jr., 1903 |
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Geo. W. Collins, 1871 |
George L. Rouse, 1905 |
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M. Sessions, 1873 |
D. M. Nettleton, 1907 |
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Edward S. Towle, 1875 |
C. W. Pool, 1909 |
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Albinus Nance, 1877 |
John Kuhl, 1911 |
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C. P. Matthewson, 1879 |
P. C. Kelley, 1913 |
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H. H. Shedd, 1881 |
Geo. Jackson, 1915-18 |
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Geo. H. Humphrey, 1883 |
Dwight S. Dalbey, 1919 |
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Allen W. Field, 1885 |
Walter L. Anderson, 1921 |
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N. V. Harlan, 1887 |
A. N. Mathers, 1923 |
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John C. Watson, 1889 |
Allen C. Burke, 1925 |
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S. M. Elder, 1891 |
James A. Rodman, 1927 |
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J. N. Gaffin, 1893 |
Bern R. Coulter, 1929 |
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C. L. Richards, 1895 |
Max Kier, 1931 |
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J. N. Gaffin, 1897 |
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