{"id":12208,"date":"2013-06-05T11:17:41","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T17:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=12208"},"modified":"2013-06-05T11:17:41","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T17:17:41","slug":"legislative-power-to-subpoena-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=12208","title":{"rendered":"Legislative power to subpoena passed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senators passed a bill June 5 that codifies the state\u2019s ability to issue subpoenas.<\/p>\n<p>LB613, introduced by Columbus Sen. Paul Schumacher, establishes and affirms the Legislature\u2019s investigatory power.<\/p>\n<p>A committee has to receive approval by a majority vote of the Executive Board to issue a subpoena with regard to a specific inquiry or investigation. The committee can require any state agency, political subdivision or individual to provide information relevant to the investigation within 30 days of the initial request.<\/p>\n<p>The bill passed on a 47-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators passed a bill June 5 that codifies the state\u2019s ability to issue subpoenas. LB613, introduced by Columbus Sen. Paul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-12208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-revenue","tag-sen-paul-schumacher"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12209,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12208\/revisions\/12209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}