Nebraska Medicaid, Child Care, and Special Needs Trust Modifications
Summary
Nebraska Legislature introduced LB867 on January 8, 2026, making comprehensive changes to Medicaid programs, child care, and special needs trusts. The bill creates a money follows the person Medicaid program, modifies nursing facility rates, updates eligibility for young adults in bridge to independence program, and renames several health and human services divisions and advisory councils.
What changed
LB867 modifies multiple healthcare and social services programs administered by the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services. Key provisions include establishing a money follows the person program for Medicaid benefits, modifying Medicaid nursing facility rates and eligibility criteria, changing provisions for child care grants and youth afterschool employment eligibility, requiring certain schools to maintain epinephrine, and redirecting wholesale drug distributor license fees to the prescription drug monitoring program. The bill also renames the Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementia Support Act, the Alzheimer's Advisory Council, the State Advisory Committee on Mental Health, and the Division of Developmental Disabilities.
Nebraska healthcare providers, insurers, schools, and government agencies should monitor LB867's progress through the legislative process. The bill eliminates several obsolete provisions including the Division of Medicaid and Long-Term Care Advisory Committee on Aging, Maternal and Child Health and Public Health Work Fund, and the Nurse Licensure Compact provisions. Affected parties should review current compliance procedures to identify necessary updates once the bill passes and takes effect.
What to do next
- Monitor LB867 progress through Nebraska Legislature for passage and effective date
- Review current Medicaid nursing facility rate calculation procedures for upcoming changes
- Assess school compliance requirements for epinephrine maintenance if the bill passes
Source document (simplified)
LB867 - Change provisions relating to special needs trusts, fingerprints under the Uniform Credentialing Act, child care grants, the Title IV-D Division Customer Service Unit, eligibility for young adults in the bridge to independence program, licensed and self-funded insurers under the Medical Assistance Act, medicaid nursing facility rates, assistance to aged, blind, or disabled persons, and the state Commodity Supplemental Food program; provide for a money follows the person program for medicaid benefits, a youth afterschool eligibility letter for child care employment, use of wholesale drug distributor license fees for the prescription drug monitoring program, and maintenance of epinephrine by certain schools; change provisions of and rename the Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementia Support Act , the Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementia Advisory Council, the State Advisory Committee on Mental Health, the Division of Developmental Disabilities of the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Director of Developmental Disabilities; and eliminate provisions relating to divisions of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Division of Medicaid and Long-Term Care Advisory Committee on Aging, the Maternal and Child Health and Public Health Work Fund, and an obsolete Nurse Licensure Compact
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- Introduced By: Health and Human Services Committee
Date of Introduction: January 08, 2026
Introduced By: Health and Human Services Committee
Date of Introduction: January 08, 2026
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| Date | Description | Journal | Vote |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mar 31, 2026 | Ballard AM3023 filed | 1419 | |
| Mar 31, 2026 | Ballard AM2970 filed | 1398 | |
| Mar 30, 2026 | Hardin AM2972 filed | 1367 | |
| Mar 30, 2026 | Enrollment and Review ER165 filed | 1358 | |
| Mar 30, 2026 | Placed on Select File with ER165 | 1358 | |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial | 1214 | Vote |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Health and Human Services AM2270 adopted | 1214 | Vote |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Riepe AM2856 adopted | 1214 | Vote |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Riepe AM2856 to AM2270 filed | 1213 | |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Hardin AM2829 adopted | 1213 | Vote |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Hardin AM2829 to AM2270 filed | 1212 | |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Hardin AM2830 adopted | 1211 | Vote |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Hardin AM2830 to AM2270 filed | 1211 | |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Hardin AM2555 adopted | 1211 | Vote |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Hardin AM2555 to AM2270 filed | 1208 | |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Hardin AM2859 adopted | 1208 | Vote |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Hardin AM2859 to AM2270 filed | 1208 | |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Clouse AM2685 withdrawn | 1208 | |
| Mar 23, 2026 | McKinney FA1021 withdrawn | 1208 | |
| Mar 23, 2026 | McKinney MO492 withdrawn | 1208 | |
| Mar 23, 2026 | McKinney MO491 withdrawn | 1208 | |
| Mar 23, 2026 | McKinney MO490 withdrawn | 1208 | |
| Mar 23, 2026 | McKinney MO490 pending | 1207 | |
| Mar 17, 2026 | Clouse AM2685 to AM2270 filed | 1076 | |
| Mar 04, 2026 | McKinney FA1021 to AM2270 filed | 940 | |
| Mar 04, 2026 | McKinney MO492 Recommit to the Health and Human Services Committee filed | 940 | |
| Mar 04, 2026 | McKinney MO491 Bracket until April 17, 2026 filed | 940 | |
| Mar 04, 2026 | McKinney MO490 Indefinitely postpone pursuant to Rule 6, Sec. 3(f) filed | 940 | |
| Feb 27, 2026 | Health and Human Services AM2270 filed | 879 | |
| Feb 27, 2026 | Placed on General File with AM2270 | 879 | |
| Feb 12, 2026 | Health and Human Services priority bill | 694 | |
| Jan 13, 2026 | Notice of hearing for January 23, 2026 | 306 | |
| Jan 12, 2026 | Referred to Health and Human Services Committee | 244 | |
| Jan 09, 2026 | Kauth FA507 filed | 223 | |
| Jan 08, 2026 | Date of introduction | 203 | |
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Enrollment and Review
ER165
Select File pending
Kauth
FA507
Strike the enacting clause - Select File pending
Hardin
AM2972
Select File pending
Ballard
AM2970
Select File pending
Ballard
AM3023
Select File pending Considered View Details
McKinney
MO490
withdrawn
McKinney
MO491
withdrawn
McKinney
MO492
withdrawn
Health and Human Services
AM2270
adopted
Riepe
AM2856
adopted
McKinney
FA1021
withdrawn
Clouse
AM2685
withdrawn
Hardin
AM2859
adopted
Hardin
AM2555
adopted
Hardin
AM2830
adopted
Hardin
AM2829
adopted
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