{"id":15230,"date":"2014-03-28T12:22:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T18:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=15230"},"modified":"2014-03-28T15:09:03","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T21:09:03","slug":"mountain-lion-hunting-repeal-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=15230","title":{"rendered":"Mountain lion hunting repeal approved, vetoed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senators passed a bill March 24 that would have prohibited the hunting of mountain lions. Gov. Dave Heineman vetoed the bill on March 28.<\/p>\n<p>LB671, introduced by Omaha Sen. Ernie Chambers, would repeal the law passed in 2012 that authorized the state Game and Parks Commission to hold a mountain lion hunting season.<\/p>\n<p>The bill would continue to allow farmers and ranchers to kill a mountain lion they perceive to be a threat.<\/p>\n<p>Senators passed the bill on a 28-13 vote. Chambers has five legislative days to consider filing a motion to override the veto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators passed a bill March 24 that would have prohibited the hunting of mountain lions. Gov. Dave Heineman vetoed the<\/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":[15],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-15230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-resources","tag-sen-ernie-chambers"],"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\/15230","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=15230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15388,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15230\/revisions\/15388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}