Legislative process Legislative sessions. The Unicameral routinely uses all 150 of these legislative days. There is no constitutional requirement to adjourn session by a particular date on the calendar. In the first year, the session begins early in January and lasts until late May or early June. Special sessions occur about as often as in Minnesota but last about three times longer, on average.
Nebraska legislators introduce more bills than Minnesota legislators, on average.
But the bills come in earlier in the session, because of a rule requiring members to introduce bills within about three weeks after the start of the session. The rules allow members to designate priority bills. Each senator may select one bill as his or her personal priority bill for the session. Each committee chair may select two priority bills from among those referred to the committee. Priority bills must be selected before a deadline set by the Speaker, which is about half-way through the session, about the same time as the committee deadlines.