So far, Nebraska lawmakers have introduced two bills in response to the Governor's call to revisit LB 157 and change the age of children eligible for "legal abandonment." The Unicam is considering them both this week.LB 1 limits the age of children who can be abandoned legally by their parents without prosecution to 72 hours.
LB 3 creates a 2-tired system of legal abandonment: one for infants of up to one year of age; the other for children between the ages of 1 and 16. The second tier also creates regional and state “intervention teams” to assist families in abandonment crisis enabling them to access services and to avoid abandoning their children. There is no intervention team for infants. Apparently babies don't mind being tossed away with no fuss or muss. Only Big Kids do.
Both of these bills are unacceptable.
Repeal is the only solution.
For your convenience, we have placed links in the Children of the Corn sidebar to those bills
More later.
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Note that State Senator Bill Avery has offered an amendment on LB1 that would push the age limit up to 1 year.
see full text here (link opens a PDF)
State Senator Chris Langemeier had offered up another amendment on LB 1, pushing the age limit up to 30 days.
see the full text here
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