Nebraska: Urge Your Senator to Support LB42 for Reasonable Childhood Independence

Senator Ben Hansen’s (District 16) bill,  L.B. 42, that protects innocent families from being caught up in child neglect investigations, has been schedule for a hearing in the Judiciary Committee this Wednesday, February 22. 

This commonsense language unanimously passed the Colorado legislature last year and was signed into law, and the same language is poised to become law (again unanimously) in the Commonwealth of Virginia this year.

Please contact your senatorand ask him or her to cosponsor and vote in support of L.B. 42. You can call or email your senator (or both!) with a message as simple as the following:

“Please support L.B. 42. At a time when it seems that government is encroaching more and more on loving parents and their ability to care for and raise their children, L.B. 42 provides freedom to parents to let their children grow and thrive, freeing Nebraska’s Division of Children and Family Services to focus attention on children who are truly in danger of abuse or neglect.”

If you decide to email your senator, feel free to link to the letter of support that we sent to the sponsor of L.B. 42.

For background, L.B. 42 amends Nebraska law to clarify that a parent who allows his or her child to engage in “independent activities” will not be considered to have neglected the child, unless there is evidence of obvious danger that any reasonable parent would not – and should not — ignore.

To read more on the background and importance of this type of bill, please visit parentalrightsfoundation.org/reasonable-independence-model.

L.B. 42 enjoys broad bipartisan support from advocacy groups across the political spectrum, including ParentalRights.org, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) (whose model bill Nebraska’s legislation mirrors), Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), Americans for Prosperity (AFP), Nebraska Appleseed, 50Can, Let Grow, and several Nebraska-based child advocacy groups. 

Thank you for standing with us for parental rights and freedom.

Thank you for standing with us for parental rights and freedom.

Sincerely,

Will Estrada

President, ParentalRights.org & Parental Rights Foundation