LINCOLN—Friday, Governor Jim Pillen was joined by Senator Eliot Bostar, FBI Special Agent in Charge Eugene Kowel, and national security advocates for a ceremonial signing of LB 1096. Brought at the request of Governor Pillen and introduced by Sen. Bostar, LB 1096 enacts sweeping protections to defend Nebraska’s agricultural economy, energy and utility grids, public records, and communications infrastructure against hostile foreign adversaries and biological threats.
“Let’s be blunt: nations like China, Russia, Iran and North Korea are actively probing American infrastructure every single day.The CCP has made no secret of its desire to undermine American agriculture and infiltrate our technological backbone,” said Gov. Pillen. “Nebraska will not sit back and wait for crisis to happen. We are taking offensive action to secure our fields, our grids, and our networks right now.”
LB 1096 establishes comprehensive statewide defense measures against nations like the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that seek to infiltrate, disrupt, or compromise essential American infrastructure and food production.
