Reparations · State · NE
Nebraska Bill to Create Redlining Restitution Task Force Indefinitely Postponed
- Direction
- +1 — benefit to freedmen
- Force
- 1.00 — enacted, vetoed, or final
- Status
- Developing
- Date
- 2026-04-17
Why this rating
If enacted, this bill would have created a state task force to study restitution and redress for historical redlining, a discriminatory housing practice that disproportionately harmed Black communities, including Freedmen descendants in redlined neighborhoods — a meaningful, if study-stage, step toward addressing lineage-linked economic harm (direction +1). However, the material does not specify that the task force's mandate was explicitly lineage/descent-based rather than addressing Black Americans or redlining-affected residents generally, so the lineage-specific reach of any eventual restitution is not established in the text provided. On force, the bill's history shows it was indefinitely postponed on 2026-04-17 — a completed, terminal legislative action ending this measure's chance of taking effect this session, which is recorded at full force (1.00) as a defeat.
Summary
LB487, introduced by Sen. Terrell McKinney on 2025-01-21, would have adopted the 'Restitution and Redress for Redlining Task Force Act,' establishing a task force in Nebraska to examine restitution and redress related to historical redlining practices. The bill was referred to the Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee, received a hearing notice for March 14, 2025, and carried over into the 2026 session as a carryover bill.
Sources
- Adopt the Restitution and Redress for Redlining Task Force Act — bill text · primary · legiscan
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