{"id":17535,"date":"2015-05-21T11:26:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T17:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=17535"},"modified":"2015-05-21T11:26:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T17:26:22","slug":"fire-districts-authorized-to-levy-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=17535","title":{"rendered":"Fire districts authorized to levy taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill passed by the Legislature May 21 authorizes rural and suburban fire districts to levy property taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, counties decide whether to allocate property tax funds to fire districts. LB325, introduced by Hyannis Sen. Al Davis, provides for a maximum levy of 10.5 cents per 100 dollars of taxable valuation located within the fire district.<\/p>\n<p>A fire district is eligible for levy authority only if it is located within a county that had a levy of at least 40 cents in the previous year or did not authorize any levy authority to the district in the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>The bill passed on a 40-2 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill passed by the Legislature May 21 authorizes rural and suburban fire districts to levy property taxes. Currently, counties<\/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":[77],"class_list":["post-17535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-revenue","tag-sen-al-davis"],"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\/17535","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=17535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17536,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17535\/revisions\/17536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}