The Latest Breaking News from Jim Pillen

Republican Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen is scheduled to sign a bill Monday that bans abortion at 12 weeks of pregnancy and restricts gender-affirming medical care for people younger than 19

The bill, likely the first to combine limits on abortion and gender-affirming care, heads to the governor's desk next.

Hundreds of people protested legislation targeting trans youth and abortion rights

Nebraska lawmakers are debating a plan that would tack on a proposed 12-week abortion ban to a bill that would ban gender-affirming care in transgender minors

"Once a woman became pregnant for any reason, she would now become property of the state of South Carolina," said one state senator.

An effort to advance a bill that would ban abortion once cardiac activity can be detected, generally around the sixth week of pregnancy, fell one vote short Thursday of breaking a filibuster in the Nebraska Legislature

Nebraska could join 48 other states in offering public money for private school tuition under a bill advanced by the state Legislature on Wednesday

Former Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts was sworn into the U.S. Senate on Monday, replacing Republican Sen. Ben Sasse as the Senate returns from several weeks of recess and begins a new session of closely-divided government

WASHINGTON — Pete Ricketts had less than three weeks between his old job and his new one a thousand miles away. The former governor of Nebraska was sworn in to the Senate on Monday, raising his right hand as the chamber returned to start the year’s work in earnest.

Ricketts had less than three weeks between his old job and his new one. The former Nebraska governor was sworn in as a senator on Monday.

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen has proposed a vast increase in K-12 public education funding using money from the state’s huge cash reserve