Over the course of seven legislative days comprising the first special session of the Nebraska Legislature, the applicability of Nebraska's safe haven law was reduced from children aged 17 and younger to infants aged 30 days and younger. On Nov. 21, the Legislature passed LB 1 on a vote of 43-5.

Introduced by Speaker Mike Flood of Norfolk, LB 1 originally would have set the law's age limit to infants aged 72 hours or younger. The bill was modified by a Judiciary Committee amendment during general file debate on Nov. 18 to cover infants aged 30 days or younger. The amendment was adopted by a vote of 44-0.