ROTTEN BILLS INTRODUCED BY SPEAKER  BROMM.

2004.
LB 1089: A mammoth deficit appropriations bill: $6 million to expand community-based services, $2 million for housing aid, etc., and to extend the present higher school property tax levy lid for 3 additional years, leaving it at $1.05 per $100 of assessed valuation instead of returning it to $1.

2003.
LB 402: $10 million in deficit financing for child welfare programs and $8.43 million for inmate medical costs.
LB 407: To appropriate $223 million more in the biennial budget than the governor recommended.  Welfare programs gained a 30.1% increase in FY 03-04 and 12.4% in FY 04-05.  The budget will grow 4.9% in the next 2 fiscal years. 
LB 418: To continue payment for a meatpacking industry worker rights coordinator.

2002.
LB 1185: To erode an exemption from worker compensation for farm or ranch employers to include only those operations with 6 or fewer non-family workers.  If an employer later employs fewer than 6 unrelated employees, he must continue to provide worker compensation insurance coverage for the remaining employees for 1 calendar year after the number is fewer than 6.

2001.
LB 244: To adopt a Midwest Interstate Passenger Rail Compact to develop and improve NE intercity rail traffic use, with office and staff, an unnecessary bureaucracy.
LB 245: To establish a Midwest Interstate Passenger Rail Compact eventually funded by state tax money.
LB 827: To allow government subdivisions and state agencies to compete with private enterprises by selling or leasing excess dark fiber optic cable and place lease profits in a state fund that subsidizes enhanced broadband and other advanced telecommunications services to poor counties and cities.
LB 827A: To appropriate $1.48 million to fund LB 827.
LB 833: To provide funding to school districts that want connection to a statewide public computer information network.  Cost: up to $3 million annually.