Opinion No. (1980)

REQUESTED BY: Dear Senator Marsh:

You have asked this office whether an amendment to LB 968 which excludes `those organizations, corporations, and societies authorized to conduct horse racing' from the operation of Nebraska's Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act, is constitutional. You apparently inquire as to whether LB 968 in an amended form grants to that class of entities an impermissible special privilege or immunity.

Article III, section 18, of the Nebraska Constitution states in pertinent part:

"The Legislature shall not pass local or special laws in any of the following cases,…