An effort to do away with minimum mandatory prison sentences and reduce the number of crimes subject to the habitual criminal statute met resistance, but advanced in the Nebraska Unicameral.
Senator Beau McCoy of Omaha reminds colleagues the Unicameral only a few years ago approved both laws.

But to Senator Patty Pansing Brooks of Lincoln, the fact that the legislature recently acted on both laws isn’t persuasive.

The bill moves into the final round of voting only after three senator’s change their votes to give it the minimum total needed.