WEDNESDAY, May 21, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Nebraska is the first state to get federal approval to ban the purchase of soda ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has announced that recipients of Nebraska’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ...

Nebraska is the first state to receive a federal waiver to ban the purchase of soda and energy drinks under the food benefit ...

The decision marks a historic departure in SNAP administration, being the first waiver of its kind approved by the USDA.

Nebraska has received the first federal waiver to ban soda and energy drinks from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ...

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins signed a waiver to amend which foods and beverages will be available for purchase ...

Nebraska lawmakers upheld a lifetime ban on SNAP benefits for felons with drug convictions. LB 319 was six votes short of ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins approved a waiver Monday (May 19) allowing Nebraska to prohibit Supplemental ...

GET ADDED TO ANOTHER MEASURE. AND BREAKING TONIGHT, NEBRASKA GOVERNOR JIM PILLEN VETOES A BILL THAT WAS PASSED BY LAWMAKERS TODAY. LEIGH 319 WOULD EXPAND SNAP ELIGIBILITY TO CONVICTED DRUG ...

How a bill becomes a law in the Nebraska Legislature LINCOLN — A bill ... ban helps entire households because a person barred from SNAP counts toward their household income but not the headcount ...

Nebraska’s Republican governor vetoed the proposal — which seeks to reverse the 2009 law that prohibited drug dealers and, in some cases, convicted drug users from accessing SNAP benefits ...