Nebraska Lobbying

Which private interests registered support, opposition or neutrality on specific Nebraska bills, from the Clerk of the Legislature's lobbyist reporting system. This is the only Nebraska public dataset that ties a private interest to a named piece of legislation. Cross-source search is in the Public Records Hub.

291,078registered positions

6,661bills with filings

1,129principals

936lobbyists

101,820support

56,583oppose

132,675neutral

Collection is about 100% complete. 9,200 bill numbers swept (LB/LR only, session 105, 106, 107, 107-3, 108, 108-3, 109) out of roughly 9,200 across every session the system covers. Everything below is real; there is simply more of it not yet collected. Absence here is not evidence that an interest took no position.

Most-lobbied bills collected so far

Bill	Positions	Support	Oppose	Neutral
LB909	565	479	0	86
LB693	563	18	35	510
LB776	545	285	217	43
LB1014	526	379	38	109
LB814	502	348	14	140
LB994	499	379	17	103
LB720	468	300	31	137
LB997	467	0	402	65
LB389	466	25	380	61
LB139	455	246	26	183

Most active principals

Principal	Positions
Edwards Westerhold Moore	46916
ACLU Nebraska	18819
Lindsay Harr MacDonald	17003
Kissel Kohout ES Associates, LLC	15204
Nebraska State Education Association	8543
Nebraska Association of County Officials	8537
principal 2368	6846
Catalyst Public Affairs	6153
Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation	5079
Radcliffe Gilbertson & Brady	5015

What lobbying costs, statewide

Compensation lobbyists reported receiving, from Form B line 1, across every filer in the state. Reported compensation rose 78% between 2015 and 2025, from $15,109,403 to $26,896,981. 2026 is still accruing filings and is not comparable to a closed year.

Year	Reported compensation
2015	$15,109,403
2016	$16,536,309
2017	$17,142,400
2018	$17,612,127
2019	$19,455,838
2020	$18,780,208
2021	$20,687,088
2022	$21,698,985
2023	$23,600,340
2024	$24,793,831
2025	$26,896,981
2026	$15,380,489

These are statewide totals. Per-lobbyist and per-principal figures need one request per entity per year — the report aggregates whatever it is asked for rather than breaking it down — so they are collected separately for the entities that appear elsewhere in the project.

Read this before quoting it

The site truncates names in its own markup. The bill table really does publish "Associated Beverage Distributors of…" — 28% of a sample arrived cut short, and the full name appears nowhere on that page. Every row here carries the numeric principal and lobbyist IDs, and names are resolved from each principal's own detail page.
Rows that look identical usually are not. One lobbyist can file more than once for the same principal on the same bill; the rows differ only by registration ID. Deduplicating on the visible columns destroys real records.
"Neutral" is a real position, and it is common. Registering neutral on a bill is not the same as not registering.
Electronic filings begin in 2015. Earlier documents were not filed electronically; the Clerk provides them on request.
A registered position is not a vote and not an outcome. It records what an interest told the Legislature it wanted.
Expense figures are self-reported quarterly totals, not audited spending, and Form B (what a lobbyist received) and Form C (what a principal paid) describe the same money from two sides — adding them together double-counts it.